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1 Abhishek; Bhamoriya, V.; Gupta, P.; Kaushik, M.; Kishore, A.; Kumar, R.; Sharma, A.; Verma, S. 2020. India’s food system in the time of COVID-19. Economic and Political Weekly, 55(15):12-14.
Food systems ; Food supply chains ; Coronavirus disease ; Financial situation ; Markets ; Economic aspects ; Labour / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049665)
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India’s complete lockdown has caused unnecessary disruptions in the food supply chain, with the scarcity of labour making it even worse. A sharp decline in demand is imminent with the fi nancial sector being in a freeze and incomes having shrunk for everyone, except for the small salaried class. Consumer sentiment and business outlook on recovery are bleak. While ensuring the free movement of essential goods and availability and safety of labour can mitigate the immediate disruptions in the supply chain, unclogging the financial sector and restoring optimism in the market will take time and heroic efforts from the government.
2 Fleetwood, J. 2020. Social justice, food loss, and the sustainable development goals in the era of COVID-19. Sustainability, 12(12):5027. (Special issue: Meeting Sustainable Development Goals by Reducing Food Loss) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125027]
Sustainable Development Goals ; Coronavirus disease ; Food losses ; Food wastes ; Social aspects ; Food security ; Food supply chains ; Human rights
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049841)
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The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rest on a set of broadly accepted values within a human rights framework. The SDGs seek to improve human lives, improve the planet, and foster prosperity. This paper examines the human rights framework and the principles of social justice and shows that, while the SDGs do not specifically state that there is human right to food, the SDGs do envision a better, more just, world which rests upon the sufficiency of the global food supply, on environmental sustainability, and on food security for all. Then the paper examines the interrelationships between the SDGs, food access and waste, and human rights within a framework of social justice. Finally, it looks at the potential pandemic of hunger wrought by COVID-19, showing that COVID-19 serves as an example of a crisis that has raised unprecedented challenges to food loss and waste in the global food supply system and tests our commitment to the principles espoused by the SDGs
3 Laborde, D.; Martin, W.; Swinnen, J.; Vos, R. 2020. COVID-19 risks to global food security. Science, 369(6503):500-502. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc4765]
Food security ; Coronavirus disease ; Pandemics ; Health hazards ; Food supply chains ; Supply chain disruptions ; Food access ; Trade barriers ; Economic losses ; Income ; Diet ; Nutrition ; Policy making ; Agricultural production
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049911)
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4 Allan, T.; Bromwich, B.; Keulertz, M.; Colman, A. (Eds.) 2019. The Oxford handbook of food, water and society. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 926p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190669799.001.0001]
Food systems ; Water systems ; Society ; Food security ; Water security ; Food supply chains ; Value chains ; Water resources ; Water management ; Virtual water ; Water footprint ; Agricultural water use ; Agricultural trade ; Conservation agriculture ; Irrigation management ; Water scarcity ; Natural capital ; Political aspects ; Policies ; Municipal water ; Water demand ; Pollution prevention ; Agricultural production ; Transformation ; Wheat ; Coffee industry ; Rice ; Oil palms ; Meat ; Beef ; Pricing ; Pesticides ; Farmers ; Water user associations ; Gender ; Feminization ; Household consumption ; Diet ; Hunger ; Malnutrition ; Obesity ; Poverty ; Sustainability ; Technology ; Subsidies ; Ecosystem services ; Infrastructure ; Drought ; Flooding ; Soil erosion ; Semiarid zones ; Arid zones ; Drylands ; WTO ; Modelling / Africa / Mediterranean Region / North America / Western Asia / United Kingdom / England / Wales / USA / Brazil / Australia / Jordan / Israel / South Africa / California / Cape Town / Sonoran Desert
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H049524)
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Society’s greatest use of water is in food production; a fact that puts farmers centre stage in global environmental management. Current management of food value chains, however, is not well set up to enable farmers to undertake their dual role of feeding a growing population and stewarding natural resources. This book considers the interconnected issues of real water in the environment and “virtual water” in food value chains and investigates how society influences both fields. This perspective draws out considerable challenges for food security and for environmental stewardship in the context of ongoing global change. The book also discusses these issues by region and with global overviews of selected commodities. Innovation relevant to the kind of change needed for the current food system to meet future challenges is reviewed in light of the findings of the regional and thematic analysis.
5 O'Hara, S.; Toussaint, E. C. 2021. Food access in crisis: food security and COVID-19. Ecological Economics, 180:106859. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106859]
Food access ; Food security ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Public health ; Urban agriculture ; Food systems ; Food policies ; Food supply chains ; Food insecurity ; Food production ; Business models ; Communities ; Socioeconomic aspects / USA / Washington
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050134)
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Disparities in food access and the resulting inequities in food security are persistent problems in cities across the United States. The nation's capital is no exception. The District of Columbia's 's geography of food insecurity reveals a history of uneven food access that has only been amplified by the vulnerability of food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the history of food insecurity in Washington, D.C., and explores new opportunities presented by advances in urban agriculture. Innovations in food production can offer urban communities sustainable alternatives to food access that simultaneously address local food security and green infrastructure needs. They also bring persistent sociopolitical barriers into greater focus. The current COVID-19 pandemic and its imposed social isolation exacerbates these barriers, rendering conventional food access solutions inadequate to deliver on their well-intentioned aims. The ability to order groceries and home goods on mobile devices, for example, may seem fortuitous. Yet, it also exposes the deep disadvantages of marginalized populations and the isolating nature of structural racism. Contrary to the market-centered focus of traditional food access policies, such as public-private partnerships, this paper highlights community-centered strategies that help dismantle existing sociopolitical barriers in an age of crisis and help shift the food justice discourse from food access to the broader goal of community empowerment.
6 Senanayake, Dehaja; Reitemeier, Maren; Thiel, Felix; Drechsel, Pay. 2021. Business models for urban food waste prevention, redistribution, recovery and recycling. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 85p. (Resource Recovery and Reuse Series 19) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.208]
Resource recovery ; Resource management ; Reuse ; Food wastes ; Business models ; Waste management ; Urban wastes ; Waste reduction ; Redistribution ; Recycling ; Food consumption ; Food losses ; Waste collection ; Food supply chains ; Stakeholders ; Entrepreneurs ; Public-private partnerships ; Markets ; Incentives ; Energy recovery ; Nutrients ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 12 Responsible production and consumption ; Environmental impact ; Food preservation ; Composting ; Feeds ; Regulations ; Policies ; Awareness raising ; Consumer participation ; Costs
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H050448)
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A necessary extension of the concept of Resource Recovery and Reuse with an even higher priority is the prevention and reduction of waste. One concern, in particular, is food waste, which constitutes the largest share of human waste. Target 12.3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to ‘halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030’. For this report, over 400 businesses were analyzed to identify common approaches and business models to address the food waste challenge. The business models are presented under seven categories – measurement, redistribution, resell, value addition, responsible waste collection, resource recovery, and recycling – with a special focus on their application potential to the Global South.
7 FAO; RUAF Foundation; International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2021. Assessing risk in times of climate change and COVID-19: city region food system of Tamale, Ghana. Rome, Italy: FAO. 4p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6621en]
Food systems ; Risk assessment ; Climate change ; COVID-19 ; Urban agriculture ; Peri-urban agriculture ; Food production ; Food supply chains ; Markets ; Weather hazards ; Drought ; Rainfall patterns ; Floods / Ghana / Tamale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050719)
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This factsheet provides information on the general knowledge collected by the city region food system (CRFS) project in its phase 2 regarding the assessment of risks for the CRFS of Tamale. The data was collected through literature review and stakeholder consultations.
8 Karg, H.; Bouscarat, J.; Akoto-Danso, E. K.; Heinrigs, P.; Drechsel, Pay; Amprako, L.; Buerkert, A. 2022. Food flows and the roles of cities in West African food distribution networks. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6:857567. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.857567]
Foodsheds ; Distribution systems ; Food supply chains ; Food systems ; Urbanization ; Towns ; Central places ; Markets ; Marketing channels ; Transportation ; Perishable products ; Resilience ; Policies ; Geographical information systems ; Spatial analysis / West Africa / Ghana / Cameroon / Burkina Faso / Mali / Tamale / Bamenda / Ouagadougou / Bamako
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051175)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.857567/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051175.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051175.pdf
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In West Africa, rampant urbanization is changing food systems, including the magnitude and composition of food flows and the length of supply chains. An increasing body of literature discusses pathways to sustainable transformation of urban food systems taking into account links between urban and rural spaces. Research and policy have focused on the role of cities as consumption centers receiving food from local, regional, and global hinterlands. This study aims at widening the perspective on the role of cities in food distribution, by bringing into focus a city’s function as a consumption, aggregation, and disaggregation center. The analysis is based on a comprehensive set of primary data on food flows collected in four West African cities across different seasons. The analysis shows that the investigated cities are integrated into multi-scale urban and market networks. Their position within these networks interacts with their reliance on other territories for food supply and with their functions, such as the aggregation of goods. The capital cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Bamako (Mali) relied more on lower-rank urban settlements further away, while Tamale, a secondary city in Ghana, acted as an assembly market for local rural producers and in turn supplied larger urban centers. Bamenda, a secondary city in Cameroon, acted as a consumption center sourcing mainly from its hinterland. Beyond that, city functions were context-specific and varied according to type of product and season. Extending the perspective on the role of cities has implications for policy, including bringing into focus and strengthening midstream segments, such as market and transport links.
9 Thant, P. S.; Espino, A.; Soria, G.; Myae, C.; Rodriguez, E.; Barbon, W. J.; Gonsalves, J. 2022. Myanmar local food systems in a changing climate: insights from multiple stakeholders. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 14:100170. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2022.100170]
Food systems ; Climate change adaptation ; Multi-stakeholder processes ; Food production ; Food supply chains ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Traditional foods ; Households ; Diet ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Communities ; Livelihoods ; Vulnerability ; Food insecurity ; Resilience ; Villages ; Arid zones ; Infrastructure / Myanmar / Htee Pu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051098)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972722000022/pdfft?md5=16a94ed75ee246ba542b01ef297a97b9&pid=1-s2.0-S2665972722000022-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051098.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051098.pdf
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Understanding the impacts of climate on food systems is vital to identifying the most effective food system interventions to support climate-smart agriculture. The study examines how climate change is affecting food systems and what can be done to mitigate its effects. Two methodological approaches were combined in the study. The first was an Asia-wide regional consultation and forum to explore a range of initiatives that transform food systems among stakeholders working in Myanmar. The second method was an in-depth food systems study employing qualitative methods in Htee Pu Village in the Myanmar Central Dry Zone, a research site of IIRR since 2017. Key informant interviews (KII) and focus group discussions (FGD) were conducted to capture insights and data. Food systems consist of components, drivers, actors, and elements that interact with one another and other systems such as social, health, and transportation. The Myanmar food system is complex. Making it sustainable and transformative requires a mix of different approaches implemented at various scales from local to national. It also requires actions that engage various actors in the system from producers to consumers. The study of the local food system of Htee Pu Village indicates that the village has a rural and traditional food system and that climate change is one of its key food system drivers. Climate change negatively impacted farming and agricultural practices and disrupted the input supply of the local food systems. The role of intermediaries such as traders and consolidators is critical in the supply and distribution of food in the Central Dry Zone. Improved and more connected roads are essential for the supply and distribution of food for the village. The informal market outlets serve as the primary food source or sale points for households. Household diets are inadequate in quantity as the population remains highly dependent on their crops for their diets due to relatively low income. Climate adaptation must be embedded in the local level management to mitigate the effect of climate change in food production in the longer term.
10 Neik, T. X.; Siddique, K. H. M.; Mayes, S.; Edwards, D.; Batley, J.; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe; Song, B. K.; Massawe, F. 2023. Diversifying agrifood systems to ensure global food security following the Russia–Ukraine crisis. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7:1124640. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1124640]
Food security ; Agrifood systems ; Diversification ; Sustainable intensification ; Food crops ; Food production ; Food supply chains ; Resilience ; Food prices ; Markets ; Exports ; Technology ; Conflicts / Russia / Ukraine
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051821)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1124640/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051821.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051821.pdf
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The recent Russia–Ukraine conflict has raised significant concerns about global food security, leaving many countries with restricted access to imported staple food crops, particularly wheat and sunflower oil, sending food prices soaring with other adverse consequences in the food supply chain. This detrimental effect is particularly prominent for low-income countries relying on grain imports, with record-high food prices and inflation affecting their livelihoods. This review discusses the role of Russia and Ukraine in the global food system and the impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on food security. It also highlights how diversifying four areas of agrifood systems—markets, production, crops, and technology can contribute to achieving food supply chain resilience for future food security and sustainability.
11 Aheeyar, Mohamed; Jayathilake, Nilanthi; Drechsel, Pay; Bucatariu, C. (Eds.) 2023. Proceedings of the multi-actor and multi-disciplinary trainings and consultations on food waste prevention and reduction in Sri Lanka. Project: Innovative approaches to reduce, recycle and reuse urban food waste (TCP SRL 3703; from June 2019 to August 2021). Colombo, Sri Lanka: FAO; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 55p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4224en]
Food waste ; Waste reduction ; Capacity development ; Training ; Waste management ; Awareness-raising ; Policies ; Regulations ; Food supply chains ; Food service ; Retail markets ; Wholesale markets ; Periurban areas ; Stakeholders ; Institutions ; Government agencies ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 12 Responsible production and consumption ; Reuse ; Solid wastes ; Recycling ; Households / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052230)
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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 of the UN 2030 Agenda calls for halving per capita global food waste (FW) from retail to households. Food waste (FW) prevention and reduction play a major role in ensuring the sustainability of food systems as well as effective Solid Waste Management (SWM). A coherent, coordinated, and complementary approach to quantification causes identification, and scaling up feasible solutions is necessary. Awareness-raising and capacity development for food supply chain actors, the public sector, and civil society organizations is required for successful interventions. The Project Innovative approaches to reduce, recycle and reuse FW in urban Sri Lanka was implemented under the oversight of the Ministry of Urban Development, and Housing in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) from June 2019 to August 2021. The project produced a series of reports and papers including FAO and IWMI (2021a), FAO and IWMI (2021b), FAO and IWMI (2021c), and FAO and IWMI (2021d) that were used in the awareness creation and capacity development programmes. The major output of the Project was to facilitate knowledge development for and drafting of the Urban Roadmap on FW Prevention, Reduction, Management in Sri Lanka, that includes a comprehensive Action Plan with Monitoring and Evaluation criteria. The objective of this report is to summarize the proceedings of the consultations and sensitization sessions conducted from June 2019 to June 2021.
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