The Elgar Companion to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development

Edited by Prajal Pradhan and Laxmi Prasad Pant

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This expansive Companion examines the relationship between food systems and sustainability, exploring why transforming the food system is a vital step in achieving sustainability that extends beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Keywords: Food System Transformation; Food And Climate Change; 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development; Post-2030 Agenda; Water; Energy And Food Nexus; Political Ecology Of Food Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332847
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development

Prajal Pradhan and Laxmi Prasad Pant

Ch 2 Promoting agri-food system transformation and poverty eradication

Mingxing Sun and Shaoyue Ma

Ch 3 Ending all forms of malnutrition through food system transformation

Charoula Konstantia Nikolaou and Laxmi Prasad Pant

Ch 4 Sustainable food systems for health and wellbeing

Sharada Prasad Wasti, Atul Upadhyay and Laxmi Prasad Pant

Ch 5 Moving beyond the colonial single-track education for food system transformation towards sustainability

Kishor Atreya, Kanchan Kattel, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai and Laxmi Prasad Pant

Ch 6 Food system transformation for achieving gender equality and contributing to Sustainable Development Goals

Hom Nath Gartaula, Deepali Chadha, Kishor Atreya, Prama Mukhopadhyay, Anisha Sapkota and Ranjitha Puskur

Ch 7 Sustainable water–food system transformation in arid and semi-arid regions

Rocky Talchabhadel, Sanjib Sharma, Analicia L. Perez and Elizabeth F. Racine

Ch 8 On kilowatts and calories: integrating sustainable energy in food systems

Laurence L. Delina and Chloe Chan

Ch 9 Leverage points for achieving integrated socio-ecological security across the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus

Larry A. Swatuk, Corrine Cash and Natasha Tang Kai

Ch 10 Will it work out for labour? Implications of the food system transformation on employment and decent work

Claudia Hunecke

Ch 11 Responsible innovation for sustainable and just food systems

Cody Kugler, Maria Boa-Alvarado, Mario Herrero and Daniel Mason-D’Croz

Ch 12 Food system transformation to reduce inequality within and among countries

Madiha Ahmed and Sandra Gagnon

Ch 13 Provisioning sustainable food for cities and human settlements: principles and examples

Ina Horlings, Stephen Leitheiser, Pablo Tittonell and Elen-Maarja Trell

Ch 14 The dual role of government in transforming urban food systems in Berlin

Stefanie Lyn Becker

Ch 15 Responsible food production and consumption

Yuanchao Hu, Vivienne Reiner, Mengyu Li and Arunima Malik

Ch 16 Food system transformation for climate action

Toshihiro Hasegawa, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Helen Gurney-Smith

Ch 17 Climate-smart agriculture for South Asia to transform the food system and sustainable development

Rajiv Ghimire and Jagadish Parajuli

Ch 18 Climate change driven agricultural frontiers: land sparing and land sharing strategies in Canada's north

Krishna Bahadur Kc and Edan Tzadok

Ch 19 Climate change threats to supply chains in Australia's food bowl

Vivienne Reiner and Arunima Malik

Ch 20 Terrestrial versus aquatic foods: how more seafood can help to conserve life below water

Holger Kühnhold and Furqan Asif

Ch 21 Insights into three alternative agriculture practices to foster food system transformation for life on land

Jorien Zevenberg and Henny J. van der Windt

Ch 22 Strategies for implementing the food, ecosystem, and climate nexus

Junze Zhang and Mengting Luo

Ch 23 Accelerating land restoration for enhancing pastoral livelihoods in Mandera County, Kenya

Erick Wanga, David Kitheka, Salil Bhattarai and Avish Raj

Ch 24 Farming diversification and agroecological practices: pathways to sustainable systems in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Peru

Lucila Marcela Beltrán Tolosa, Martin Londoño Behaine and Marcela Quintero

Ch 25 Peace, justice, and food system transformation

Caroline Delgado and Dan Smith

Ch 26 Conclusion: directionality and diversity of food system governance partnerships towards sustainable futures

Laxmi Prasad Pant, Tim G. Benton, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai, Raju Pandit Chhetri, Tek Bahadur Sapkota and Prajal Pradhan

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