Food Studies: Adding Nuance to the Sustainable Food Systems Dialogue

Modeling Sustainable Food Systems

The processes underlying environmental, economic, and social unsustainability derive in part from the food system. Building sustainable food systems has become a predominating endeavor aiming to redirect our food systems and policies towards better-adjusted goals and improved societal welfare. Food systems are complex social-ecological systems involving multiple interactions between human and n...

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Understanding Crop Management Decisions for Sustainable Vegetable Crop Protection: A Case Study of Small Tomato Growers in Mayotte Island J. Huat, C. Aubry & T. Dore a CIRAD, UPR Hortsys, Montpellier, France b Africa Rice Center, Cotonou, Benin c INRA, UMR Sadapt, Paris, France d AgroParisTech, INRA, UMR 211, Thiverval-Grignon, France Accepted author version posted online: 24 Mar 2014.Published...

The New Science of Sustainable Food Systems

Niche to Mainstream in Sustainable Urban Food Systems: The Case of Food Distribution in Portland, Oregon

Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems

Bioversity International is working with partners to undertake a new and important research agenda to describe, measure and influence policy and programmes on sustainable diets and food systems with the ultimate goal of improving nutrition and health. Particular focus will be given to the development of metrics to reflect the multiple dimensions of a healthy and sustainable diet. There is an ur...