Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators

Aogán Delaney (), Tom Evans, John McGreevy, Jordan Blekking, Tyler Schlachter, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Peter A. Tamás, Todd A. Crane, Hallie Eakin, Wiebke Förch, Lindsey Jones, Donald R. Nelson, Christoph Oberlack, Mark Purdon and Stephan Rist
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Aogán Delaney: Independent Consultant Researcher
Tom Evans: Indiana University
John McGreevy: University of Georgia
Jordan Blekking: Indiana University
Tyler Schlachter: Indiana University
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki: Helsinki University Centre for Environment, HENVI
Peter A. Tamás: Wageningen University
Todd A. Crane: International Livestock Research Institute
Hallie Eakin: Arizona State University
Wiebke Förch: Agriculture and Food Security
Lindsey Jones: Overseas Development Institute
Donald R. Nelson: University of Georgia
Christoph Oberlack: University of Bern
Mark Purdon: Université de Montréal
Stephan Rist: University of Bern

Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, No 6, 287-310

Abstract: Abstract Governance of food systems is a poorly understood determinant of food security. Much scholarship on food systems governance is non-empirical, while existing empirical research is often case study-based and theoretically and methodologically incommensurable. This complicates aggregation of evidence and generalization. This paper presents a review of literature to identify a core set of methodological indicators to study food systems governance in future research. Indicators were identified from literature gathered through a structured consultation and sampling from recent systematic reviews and were classified according to governance levels and the food system activity domain they investigate. We found a concentration of indicators in food production at local to national levels and with less literature investigating how food governance affects food distribution and consumption. Many indicators of institutional structure were found, while indicators capturing social agency and indicators of cross-scale dynamics were moderately represented but critical perspectives on governance were lacking. These gaps present an opportunity for future empirical research to investigate more comprehensively the diverse components of food systems and how governance arrangements at different scales affect them.

Keywords: Food systems; Governance; Food security; Research methods; Evidence synthesis; Socio-ecological change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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