Sustainable Development Goal Drivers in Food Systems

Interacting driving forces in food systems, resulting cumulative driver effects and synergies, induce non-linear processes multiple directions. This paper critically reviews the discourse on systems argues that mindset is primary predictor for system outcomes. In epoch of sustainable development goals (SDGs) Anthropocene, matters more than ever. Transformative narratives are beginning to transcend dominant social paradigm, which still system's overall trajectory. The psychosocial portrayal systemic found organic presented this “flips script” hypothesizes worldview paradigm have most causal linkages with unsustainable synergies reversely biggest leverage mitigation thereof. Borrowing from ecological economics discourses, sharpens definition by applying DPSIR analytical tool as a modified diagnostic framework modeling approach systems. research sheds new light nature drivers change, often portrayed almighty inevitable trends shaping Instead, it proposed emerge actors' mindset, affecting behavior way. Mindset drives reinforcing feedback loops, vicious virtuous cycles. These motives manifest subsystems continue drive their interaction across elements. acts an encapsulated input all while responding releasing drivers. A transformation along points features concept SDG