Negotiating food systems resilience

Resilience and Social Protection for Stability in Food Systems

Negotiating food choice: parents’ perception of children’s eating behaviour

This article is based on a qualitative study exploring parents’ attitudes and perceptions of their role in their children’s eating habits in schools in Angus, Scotland. Parents believed they had different degrees of influence on their children’s eating habits. This article will examine these different perceptions of parental responsibility for children’s eating habits to explore how parents vie...

Creative construction: crafting, negotiating and performing urban food sharing landscapes

Activities utilising online tools are an increasingly visible part of our everyday lives, providing new subjects, objects and relationships - essentially new landscapes - for research, as well as new conceptual and methodological challenges for researchers. In parallel, calls for collaborative interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, research are increasing. Yet practical guidance and critica...

Negotiating Requirements for COTS-based Systems

Selecting COTS products is a process that inherently involves tradeoffs. In this position paper, we highlight the challenges of the requirements process for COTS-based system where the negotiation of requirements plays a critical task. In particular, it is necessary to perform a careful balancing between stakeholders requirements and COTS features. We analyse the processes of COTS matching and ...

Resilience to Global Food Supply Catastrophes

Many global catastrophic risks threaten major disruption to global food supplies, including nuclear wars, volcanic eruptions, asteroid and comet impacts, and plant disease outbreaks. This paper discusses options for increasing the resilience of food supplies to these risks. In contrast with local catastrophes, global food supply catastrophes cannot be addressed via food aid from external locati...