全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Agri-Food System Dynamics: Seeking Pathways to Sustainability in an Era of Uncertainty.

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来源类型	Edited Book
规范类型	其他
ISSN	ISBN 1 85864 653 7
	Agri-Food System Dynamics: Seeking Pathways to Sustainability in an Era of Uncertainty.
	Thomspon, John; Millstone, Erik; Scoones, Ian; Ely, Adrian; Marshall, Fiona; Shah, Esha; Stagl, Sigrid
发表日期	2007
出版者	Institute of Development Studies
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	STEPS Working Papers The ‘modernist’ project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Conventional agricultural science is not able to explain let alone address these concerns because it is based on a static equilibrium-centred view that provides little insight into the dynamic character of agri-food systems. This paper analyses how prevailing narratives of technological change and economic growth have come to dominate key food and agriculture policy debates. It seeks to counter these orthodox notions by emphasising that agri-food systems are embedded in complex ecological, economic and social processes, and showing how their interactions are dynamic and vulnerable to short-term shocks and long-term stresses like climate change. The paper makes the case for a deeper understanding of diverse 'rural worlds' and their potential pathways to sustainability through agriculture. Moreover, it argues for a normative focus on poverty reduction and concern for the distributional consequences of dynamic changes in agri-food systems, rather than aggregates and averages. FInally, it sets out an interdisciplinary research agenda on agri-food systems for STEPS that focuses on dynamic system interactions in complex, risk-prone environments and explores how pathways can become more resilient and robust in an era of growing risk and uncertainty.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17418/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/467309
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thomspon, John,Millstone, Erik,Scoones, Ian,et al. Agri-Food System Dynamics: Seeking Pathways to Sustainability in an Era of Uncertainty.. 2007.