Capacity Development For Resilient Food Systems

Author : Babu, Suresh Chandra,Blom, Sylvia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Capacity development for resilient food systems by Babu, Suresh Chandra,Blom, Sylvia Pdf

Food systems face shocks varying in breadth and duration from a wide array of sources. These shocks can affect all aspects of a country’s food system, threatening the food security of its citizens. Low levels of capacity to address food system shocks are a major development challenge. This paper presents a conceptual framework for assessing the capacity of a food system to become more resilient, regardless of what kind of threat it faces. It suggests that food systems can be categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of these systems, three dimensions of capacity are analyzed: individual capacity, organizational capacity, and system capacity. The paper explores examples of building capacity within this framework and identifies key knowledge and research gaps. It also presents a typology as a possible tool for prioritizing investments in capacity building for resilience across countries.

Author : Babu, Suresh Chandra,Blom, Sylvia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems by Babu, Suresh Chandra,Blom, Sylvia Pdf

In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007–2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda. Resilient food systems are those in which “people, communities, countries, and global institutions prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks and not only bounce back to where they were before the shocks occurred, but become even better off.” Resilient food systems can help countries transition from a relief stage to a development path. However, despite widespread agreement on the importance of food security, we lack a systematic understanding of how to build capacity for resilient food systems as well as which approaches to building capacity work and why. This brief introduces a model that seeks to delineate the key capacity components of a resilient food system. It also develops a typology based on a country’s capacity to create, manage, and utilize human resources for a resilient food system that suggests a systematic method for prioritizing investments in capacity building across countries. Taken together, such a framework facilitates an exploration of what we know and don’t know about developing capacity for resilient food systems.

Author : Vinaya Kumar Hebsale Mallappa,Mahantesh Shirur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813345386

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Climate Change and Resilient Food Systems by Vinaya Kumar Hebsale Mallappa,Mahantesh Shirur Pdf

This book provides insights on innovative strategies to build resilient food systems in the wake of challenges posed by climate change. Providing food security to the growing population especially in developing countries without exacerbating the environment is a major challenge. Climate change is expected to reduce agricultural productivity, leading to a decline in overall food availability and significantly increasing the number of malnourished children in developing countries. Interventions for enhancing the adaptive capacity of farmers especially of small holders needs immediate impetus. The policy formulation and development programs must reorient in the wake of the new expectations and deliverables. This book comprises of sixteen chapters that discuss the trends in global agriculture development and food system. The book highlights different aspects of household food and nutritional security. The chapters covering diverse aspects address food system, rural and urban food chain, factors affecting their sustainability and short and long term solutions to make them climate resilient. Important issues having significant implications on climate change such as Waste management, Value chain, Agri-marketing, etc. are also covered. The book would be an important resource for researchers in food science, environmental sciences and agriculture. It would also be beneficial for students and future scientists working on sustainable agriculture and food security.

Author : Iyappan, Karunya,Babu, Suresh Chandra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Building resilient food systems: An analytical review by Iyappan, Karunya,Babu, Suresh Chandra Pdf

In this paper we undertake an analytical review of the extant literature on the building food system resilience. While the concept of food system resilience has become a topical issue in global and national policy discussion, there is little research on how to develop operational procedures to design and implement interventions from the food system and resilience perspective. This review identifies five major entry points to strengthen food system resilience in the national context: policy, institutions, technology, capacity, and governance. Measurement issues and analytical approaches to studying food system resilience are reviewed. We conclude that while there is a large gap in the methodological approaches to study the food system resilience, beginning with the case studies of understanding specific elements of a food system and their role in enhancing resilience would be good starting point for addressing thematic issues, challenges and constraints facing resilience of the food systems.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789251328606

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Resilient Food Systems – Strategy report by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

The aim of this report is to define the strategy for the Science and Policy Interface under Component 1 of the Resilient Food Systems Programme (RFS) Hub. Under this component, FAO and UN-Environment Programme, in partnership with RFS country projects and a range of other actors and platforms and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, aim to address institutional and policy barriers to inclusion of ecosystem services-aware approaches into policies and investments for improved and sustainable smallholder agriculture and natural resources. The focus of this component is the facilitation of dialogue, models, policies, and institutions that bridge the agricultural and environmental agendas and constituencies, at various scales.

Author : McDermott, John,Allison-Reumann, Laura
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Building more resilient food systems: Lessons and policy recommendations from the COVID-19 pandemic by McDermott, John,Allison-Reumann, Laura Pdf

Two years in, the long-term health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to influence poverty, food systems, and food security. Drawing on CGIAR research on the COVID-19 pandemic thus far, this brief presents key lessons learned and policy recommendations to inform decision-making processes around managing risks, addressing structural vulnerabilities, and building resilient and sustainable food systems.

Author : Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems by Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra Pdf

Armed conflict combined with prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk of starvation and death in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and northern Nigeria. The international development and aid communities are caught between the enormity of the humanitarian crisis, which demands an estimated US$4.4 billion to address, and the lack of resources forthcoming from donors. Food crises, famine-like conditions, and famines recur with regularity in many developing countries (see Box 1 for definitions of terms). Although the current famines can be largely attributed to conflicts, chronic food insecurity also threatens several other African countries. For example, 6.7 million people were affected by Malawi’s largest food crisis in decades in 2016–2017, and the country remains vulnerable to weather extremes that could create food emergencies (World Bank 2017). In Kenya, food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and half of its 47 counties face food shortages (Chatterjee and Mengistu 2017). How do countries prepare to prevent shocks—natural and man-made—from generating food crises? What does it take to break the cycle of chronic food insecurity and build resilient food systems? How have some countries managed to prevent drought from leading to famine? In this brief, we document lessons for building resilient food systems to prevent future famines.

Author : Neely, C., Bourne, M., Chesterman, S. and Smith Dumont, E.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251336861

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Resilient Food System Tailored SHARED Toolbox by Neely, C., Bourne, M., Chesterman, S. and Smith Dumont, E. Pdf

his tool kit is the result of a tailored engagement approach and training process that was carried with the Resilient Food Systems (RFS) country projects based on the SHARED approach. The process was initiated with a series of consultation interviews and was followed by a set of virtual training events customized to the priorities of the country projects. Reflections by country projects provided feedback on the training as well as insights for future engagement and inclusion of the SHARED tools, methods and approaches.

Author : Béné, Christophe,Bakker, Deborah,Rodriguez, Monica Chavarro,Even, Brice,Melo, Jenny,Sonneveld, Anne
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impacts of COVID-19 on people’s food security: Foundations for a more resilient food system by Béné, Christophe,Bakker, Deborah,Rodriguez, Monica Chavarro,Even, Brice,Melo, Jenny,Sonneveld, Anne Pdf

As part of the work implemented by CGIAR on COVID-19, the COVID-19 Research Hub Working Group 4 “Address food systems’ fragility and build back better” was tasked with implementing a global assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food systems and their actors, focusing specifically on the consequences that the pandemic had brought on the food security and nutrition of those who have been affected by the crisis. This includes formal and informal actors of the food supply chains (from producers to street vendors) as well as consumers, in both rural and urban environments. Building on this assessment, the task was then to draw on key principles of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crisis, to identify preliminary elements of a food system resilience research agenda.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781803550039

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Food Systems Resilience by Anonim Pdf

This book addresses some of the major challenges of food systems associated with a diversity of agricultural contexts and priorities. It contributes to the conversation on global food and nutrition security by unpacking the intertwined connections between food system resilience, food policies, and global food markets. The contributing authors provide careful analyses of how shocks to food systems (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns) and crises to global food systems (e.g., the global food price crisis of 2008) have disrupted the food value chains in ways that undermine global initiatives to achieve food and nutrition security for all. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1 focuses on global food systems transformation with the goal of moving towards resilience. Two chapters in this section employ a global context approach to address the key factors undermining food systems’ resilience and sustainability. Section 2 presents case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe with different pathways for the transition to food systems resilience, highlighting the importance of policy approaches as well as smart and innovative strategies to ensure the production of nutritious foods at affordable costs, the reduction of food wastage, and the valorization of sub-products.

Author : Douglas Horton
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552501115

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Evaluating Capacity Development by Douglas Horton Pdf

The perspective that informs this important book is that every evaluation of a capacity development effort should itself contribute to the capacity development effort and ultimately to the organization’s performance. This is a revolutionary idea in evaluation. With the idea have come the questions: Can it be done? And, if it is done, what will be the consequences? This book elucidates and deepens the idea, shows it can be done, and examines the consequences, both intended and unintended, of engaging in capacity development evaluation

Author : Constas, M.A., d’Errico, M., Hoddinott, J.F, Pietrelli, R.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251352687

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Resilient food systems – A proposed analytical strategy for empirical applications by Constas, M.A., d’Errico, M., Hoddinott, J.F, Pietrelli, R. Pdf

The food systems concept has attracted a considerable amount of attention as it provides an opportunity to better understand and represent the array of factors that explain food security in a comprehensive and holistic manner. The value-added proposition of food systems resilience is that the ability to respond to shocks and stressors may be incorporated into such explanations. The qualities that make food system resilience attractive, however, also make it difficult to model in empirical terms. This paper, by drawing on the literatures of food systems and on the measurement of resilience, demonstrates how food systems resilience can be measured at a country level. Clustering countries into regions shows that North America and Oceania have the highest levels of food systems resilience, followed by Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. Food systems resilience is lower in Latin America and the Caribbean and South Asia and sub-Saharan countries exhibited the lowest levels of food systems resilience. In low- and middle-income countries, increasing market resilience plays a significant role in increasing overall food systems resilience.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251377857

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Building sustainable and resilient city region food systems by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The City Region Food Systems (CRFS) programme is a global initiative of FAO and RUAF that aims to support national and local governments and local food actors to build resilient city region food systems by strengthening rural–urban linkages and improving the resilience to climate and pandemic risks. This Handbook is designed for technical staff in local and national institutions, and practitioners in cities/city regions that are implementing the city region food system (CRFS) assessment and planning process. Its purpose is to help familiarizing with the CRFS approach and key terminology, and guide the implementation of an assessment and planning following different steps and modules. The Handbook is intended to be used in conjunction with the online Toolkit, which contains supplementary explanations, how-to tools, training materials, technical examples, and workshop resources related to activities within each project module. The Toolkit can be accessed on the CRFS programme website (https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/).

Author : Karunya Iyappan,Suresh Chandra Babu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1175926552

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Building Resilient Food Systems by Karunya Iyappan,Suresh Chandra Babu Pdf

Author : Won, Jieun,Babu, Suresh Chandra,Rana, Akriti
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Building a climate change-resilient food system in Korea: The case of extension and technology dissemination services by Won, Jieun,Babu, Suresh Chandra,Rana, Akriti Pdf

Climate change affects various stages of the food system including production, processing, distribution, and consumption. To cope with this vulnerability, many nations have engaged in a global movement to establish strategies aimed at food security. As in other countries, in the Republic of Korea climate change has had, and will continue to have, a significant influence on the food system, creating many uncertainties. In response, the Korean government and relevant agencies under national strategies have implemented various policy measures and programs to respond to the effects of climate change and strengthen the country’s food resiliency. In this paper we examine those strategies, measures, and specific programs, and in particular those that involve agricultural extension and technology dissemination. These various sector-specific or cross-sector strategies have not only counteracted climate change impacts but also improved the incomes of farming households, who have struggled with import competition and low profitability under Korea’s generally slowing economy. The Korean government has also implemented extension and tech dissemination projects in and with developing countries with the aim of building resilient food systems in the era of climate change. We find that such programs would benefit from the formation and maintenance of international networks, and moreover, each international program must be preceded by a thorough needs assessment that takes into account the regional context and each project should promote appropriate technologies-that is, technologies customized or particularly suited to the local context.