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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Food systems sustainability - For whom and by whom? : An examination of different 'food system change' viewpoints
- 2018
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Ingår i: Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The United Nations identifies the food crisis as one of the primary overarching challenges facing the international community. Different stakeholders in the food system have widely different perspectives and interests, and challenging structural issues, such as the power differentials among them, remain largely unexamined. These challenges make rational discourse among food system actors from different disciplines, sectors and levels difficult. These challenges can often prevent them from working together effectively to find innovative ways to respond to food security challenges. This means that finding solutions to intractable and stuck issues, such as the food crisis often stall, not at implementation, but at the point of problem identification. Food system sustainability means very different things to different food system actors. These differences in no way undermine or discount the work carried out by these players. However, making these differences explicit is an essential activity that would serve to deepen theoretical and normative project outcomes. Would the impact and reach of different food projects differ if these differences were made explicit? The purpose of this initial part of a wider food system research project is not to search for difference or divergence, with the aim of critique, but rather to argue that by making these differences explicit, the overall food system project engagement will be made more robust, more inclusive and more encompassing. This paper starts with some discussion on the different food system perspectives, across scales, regions and sectors but focuses primarily on the design of processes used to understand these divergent and at times contradictory views of what a sustainable food system may be. This paper draws on ongoing work within the Mistra Urban Futures project, using the food system projects in cities as diverse as Cape Town, Manchester, Gothenburg and Kisumu as sites for this enquiry.
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- Haysom, Gareth, et al.
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Food systems sustainability: An examination of different viewpoints on food system change
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 11:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present a useful lens to engage a wide variety of urban (and global) challenges—so called ‘wicked problems.’ This paper describes a collaborative research project between four urban food system research units, two European and two African. The project purpose was to seek out solutions to what lay between, across and within the different approaches applied in the understanding of each city’s food system challenges. Contextual differences and immediate (perceived) needs resulted in very different views on the nature of the challenge and the solutions required. Value positions of individuals and their disciplinary “enclaves” presented further boundaries. The paper argues that finding consensus provides false solutions. Rather the identification of novel approaches to such wicked problems is contingent of these differences being brought to the fore, being part of the conversation, as devices through which common positions can be discovered, where spaces are created for the realisation of new perspectives, but also, where difference is celebrated as opposed to censored.
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- Smit, Warren, et al.
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What is meaningful collaboration? : Reflections from work on food systems and urban regeneration
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This series of presentations draws on experiences from two recent Mistra-supported collaboration and co-production projects. It is made up of three aligned components. The first one aligns with a general understanding of co-production, that of the collaboration between academics and policy makers in the pursuit of sustainable neighbourhood development. The second investigates co-production between academics from different contexts and regions. The third one raises interesting questions about process, power, voice, values, disciplinary positions, immediacy and contextual dynamics.
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- Smit, Warren, et al.
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What is meaningful collaboration? Reflections from work on food systems and urban regeneration
- 2019
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Ingår i: 4th Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference: “Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes”, Cutler’s Hall, 14–18 October 2019, Sheffield, UK.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The workshop draws on experiences from two recent Mistra-supported collaboration and co-production projects. The workshop is made up of three aligned components. The first session aligns with a general understanding of co-production, that of the collaboration between academics and policy makers in the pursuit of sustainable neighbourhood development. The second area of work investigates co-production between academics from different contexts and regions. These two sessions raise interesting questions about process, power, voice, values, disciplinary positions, immediacy and contextual dynamics. These questions are opened up to wider discussion with the audience through an interactive final session.
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