scholarly journals Building food system resilience in protracted crisis situations : Food-Gum Arabic system resilience assessment and facilitation tool (FoSRA-GA-FT)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eelke Boerema ◽  
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Charleen Malkowsky ◽  
Gerrit-Jan van Uffelen
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Gum Arabic ◽  
System Resilience ◽  
Resilience Assessment ◽  
Crisis Situations

scholarly journals Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Simona Tarra ◽  
Giampiero Mazzocchi ◽  
Davide Marino
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Supply Channel ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
System Resilience ◽  
Depth Interviews

The restriction measures linked to the COVID-19 shock suddenly highlighted the vulnerability of most socioeconomic systems, including the food sector. In a context in which the limitation to the movement of people and goods has put the longer and more structured supply chains in serious difficulty, many experiences and initiatives have emerged as viable alternatives. The aim of the research was to understand if and how the Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPG) of Rome have contributed to the resilience of the food system of the metropolitan city during the lockdown. The research was based on the results of a questionnaire administered to the SPGs of Rome during the first period of the pandemic (April–July 2020), enriched by some in-depth interviews carried out by the authors. What emerged was that, despite the limited extent in terms of products conveyed within the whole food system, the SPGs represented an important food supply channel during the lockdown period, for two main reasons: a greater flexibility and agility in moving and in handling goods and the possibility of remunerating local farms, contributing to the resilience of the local agri-food fabric. The analysis of the results confirms the strong vitality of such Food Movements in Rome and, at the same time, allows for the identification of a series of interventions that the institutions could adopt to favor the spread of a food environment more compatible with more sustainable and fairer forms of food production and distribution.

scholarly journals Measuring Resilience Potentials: A Pilot Program Using the Resilience Assessment Grid

Safety ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Karen Klockner ◽  
Peter Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Road Transport ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Resilience Engineering ◽  
Operational Safety ◽  
The Face ◽  
System Variability ◽  
System Resilience ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Resilience Assessment

Researchers in the resilience engineering space have proposed the notion that organisations operating in complex socio-technical systems cannot ‘be’ resilient but can have the ‘potential for resilient performance’. This theoretical stance also suggests that organisations wanting to enhance their potential for resilience begin by measuring their operational safety performance against four key potentials, these being: the Potential to Anticipate; the Potential to Respond; the Potential to Learn; and the Potential to Monitor. Furthermore, to measure these four key resilience constructs, organisations have been recommended to use a Resilience Assessment Grid (RAG) developed as part of this theory. However, scarce research appears to have been conducted that bridges the theory and practice divide on just how organisations can pragmatically measure their current performance against these four resilience potentials using the RAG. Therefore, this research was interested in undertaking a pilot study using RAG theory in order to examine an organisation’s four resilience potentials, and was conducted within a large road transport organisation in Australia. Results indicated that measuring both the four individual potentials and a combination of the four potentials was possible using a RAG and proved effective in providing a snapshot of operational safety system resilience concepts. Recommendations on how to increase organisational resilience potentials were provided to ensure future safety endeavours would enhance the organisation’s potential to be resilience in the face of system variability and operational demands.

scholarly journals Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 100360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Kummu ◽  
Pekka Kinnunen ◽  
Elina Lehikoinen ◽  
Miina Porkka ◽  
Cibele Queiroz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
System Resilience ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Over Time
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