What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple

Abstract Recent years have seen widespread calls to transform food systems address complex demands such as feeding a growing global population while reducing environmental impacts. But what is system and how can we most effectively work change it? “Food System” be found describing more limited dietary regimens well sector-specific supply chains going back the 1930s, but its use describe very large, dynamic, coupled socio-ecological gained traction in academic civil society publications 1990s this of term has increased dramatically recent years. When influential actors from non-governmental organizations, foundations, consultancies, UN that research focuses on talk about systems, they seem talking same thing. Yet interpretive flexibility concept obfuscates people may different framings deeply incompatible. Drawing interviews, participant observation, document analysis, paper examines thinking does terms setting stage for enact efforts intervene it. It reveals rather than leading expansive understanding, unexamined might actually serve sharpen divides.