A new understanding and evaluation of food sustainability in six different food systems in Kenya and Bolivia

Jacobi, Johanna; Mukhovi, Stellah; Llanque, Aymara; Giger, Markus; Bessa, Adriana; Golay, Christophe; Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe; Mwangi, Veronica; Augstburger, Horacio; Buergi-Bonanomi, Elisabeth; Haller, Tobias; Kiteme, Boniface P.; Delgado Burgoa, José M. F.; Tribaldos, Theresa M.; Rist, Stephan (2020). A new understanding and evaluation of food sustainability in six different food systems in Kenya and Bolivia. Scientific reports, 10(1), p. 19145. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41598-020-76284-y

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Food systems must become more sustainable and equitable, a transformation which requires the transdisciplinary co‑production of knowledge. We present a framework of food sustainability that was co‑created by academic and non‑academic actors and comprises five dimensions: food security, right to food, environmental performance, poverty and inequality, and social‑ecological resilience. For each dimension, an interdisciplinary research team—together with actors from different food systems—defined key indicators and empirically applied them to six case studies in Kenya and Bolivia. Food sustainability scores were analysed for the food systems as a whole, for the five dimensions, and for food system activities. We then identified the indicators with the greatest influence on sustainability scores. While all food systems displayed strengths and weaknesses, local and agroecological food systems scored comparatively highly across all dimensions. Agro‑industrial food systems scored lowest in environmental performance and food security, while their resilience scores were medium to high. The lowest‑scoring dimensions were right to food, poverty and inequality, with particularly low scores obtained for the indicators women’s access to land and credit, agrobiodiversity, local food traditions, social protection, and remedies for violations of the right to food. This qualifies them as key levers for policy interventions towards food sustainability.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability > Unit Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management (LS-SLM)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

UniBE Contributor:

Jacobi, Johanna, Giger, Markus, Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe, Augstburger, Horacio Florian, Bürgi, Elisabeth, Haller, Tobias, Tribaldos, Theresa Margarete, Rist, Stephan

ISSN:

2045-2322

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Projects:

[437] Towards food sustainability Official URL
[803] Cluster: Land Resources

Language:

English

Submitter:

Stephan Schmidt

Date Deposited:

26 Jan 2021 16:58

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:42

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41598-020-76284-y

PubMed ID:

33154544

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/149438

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/149438

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