In person icon Policy Pathways to Sustainable Food Systems

Abstract

Over the last two decades, there has been growing attention to unsustainable practices and structures within food systems. Modern farming practices are associated with several negative environmental challenges, including water pollution, threats to biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, and declining soil health. The impacts of climate change – evidenced by increasingly frequent and extreme weather events - combined with a rapidly growing world population, have resulted in food security becoming one the most critical issues in both domestic and international debates. It is increasingly recognized that transforming food systems is essential to adopting more sustainable production methods and encouraging shifts in consumption behavior. Additionally, there is a demand for both social and technological innovations to support the development of sustainable food systems at local, national, and global levels. The papers in this panel focus on pathways to more sustainable food systems by analyzing policy measures and domestic and transnational policy processes unfolding in various contexts.

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Global Production Network (GPN) Theory in the Analysis of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)	View Paper Details
Technology-Driven Agriculture and the Need for Sustainability: FAO's Balancing Act for Food Security	View Paper Details
Scaling Social Innovations for Transformative Change: Insights from Scaling Pathways of Alternative Food Networks	View Paper Details
The Paradox of Consensus in Food Policy Innovation: Insights from the Metropolitan City of Bologna	View Paper Details
Governance of Alternative Food Networks Through the Lenses of Experimentalist Governance: Insights from Two Case Studies in Bologna (Italy)	View Paper Details