scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe - Round 2 Report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vine Mutyasira
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Informal Markets ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
The Government

In response to COVID-19, the Government of Zimbabwe enforced a nationwide lockdown on 30 March 2020, closing most sectors of the economy, including informal markets. However, with limited cases, lockdown movement restrictions were eased and supermarkets, restaurants and vegetable markets allowed to reopen. Between 3-13 October 2020, a second-round (R2) of surveys was conducted, targeting farming communities in Mvurwi and Concession Areas of Mazowe District, to assess COVID-19 impacts on food production systems, supply chains and general livelihoods. This report summarises insights obtained from the phone-based survey, covering 102 respondents (20 female and 82 male-headed households), and 5 local key informants (councillors and extension officers). Results are compared to the earlier R1 survey carried out in late June/early July.

Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Chalmer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Constant Input ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
European Farming

Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Resolving this disparity is a huge task, but there is much that can be learned from traditional food production systems that persisted for thousands of years. Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. The industrialised agricultural systems that are now prevalent across the world require constant input of finite resources, and continue to cause destructive environmental change. This book explores the damage that has arisen from farming systems unsuited to their environment, and presents compelling evidence that producing food is an ecological process that needs to be rethought in order to ensure resilient food production into the future. Cultural sensitivity Readers are warned that there may be words, descriptions and terms used in this book that are culturally sensitive, and which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. While this information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided by the author in a historical context.

Desperately seeking happy chickens: producer dynamics and consumer politics in quality agricultural supply chains

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Carter
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Convention Theory

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand why the quality markets are expanding in some areas of food production, while struggling in others. Across agricultural markets in advanced industrialized economies, there are movements toward quality production and consumption. The author argues that the quality turn in beer, coffee, wine and other transformed artisanal food production are fundamentally different from the quality movements in primary food products. The heart of that difference lies in the nature of the supply chain advantages of transformed versus primary agricultural products.Design/methodology/approachThe author applies convention theory to explain the dynamics within transformed agricultural quality markets. In these producer-dominant markets, networks of branded producers shape consumer notions of product quality, creating competitive quality feedback loops. The author contrasts this with the consumer-dominant markets for perishable foods such as produce, eggs, dairy and meat. Here, politically constructed short supply chains play a central role in building quality food systems.FindingsThe emergence of quality in primary food products is linked to the strength of local political organization, and consumers have a greater role in shaping quality in these markets.Originality/valueQuality beer, coffee, wine and other transformed products can emerge without active political intervention, whereas quality markets for perishable foods are the outcome of political action.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2020-0001.

scholarly journals A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Boniface ◽  
Christopher Magomba
Keyword(s):  
Infection Rate ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Government ◽  
Multi Phase ◽  
Second Wave

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019, the pandemic has brought both social and economic impacts to global communities, although to varying degrees. Since the onset of the pandemic, different regions have responded in various ways by taking different measures to fight the pandemic and its effects. In Tanzania, the first case was recorded on 16 March 2020 and, to contain the spread of the virus, on 17 March 2020, the Prime Minister announced measures including the closure of all education institutions, the suspension of public gatherings and international passenger flights, and mandatory quarantine for individuals entering Tanzania. However, in June 2020, the government announced the easing of the restrictions after observing a significant decrease in the COVID-19 infection rate and, despite a subsequent ‘second wave’ of the virus, the government declined to re-institute movement restrictions. This decision led to the implementation of non-tariff trade barriers which were imposed on cargo carrying grain and other exports to neighbouring countries, especially Kenya. The situation became so bad that diplomatic intervention had to be sought. In order to understand the resulting socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Tanzania, data were collected in three waves during mid-July2020, October 2020 and February 2021. This paper presents a synthesis of the results of these three survey rounds.

scholarly journals Shifting food policy from commodity to community thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Laura Knowlson ◽  
Rachel Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
The North ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Policy Guidance

Over the last five years, N8 AgriFood has united the expertise of food systems thinkers across the eight most research intensive universities in the North of England, in a programme working to address key issues around food systems resilience across the themes of food production, supply chains and consumer health. As the programme moves towards focusing the results of its research and combined multidisciplinary expertise into policy guidance, the authors of this paper from within N8 AgriFood take an overview of the work undertaken across the programme’s eight member institutions. It explores work around linking communities to food, and the vital potential of the research to inform new policy that encapsulates societal sustainability into food systems thinking.

Implementation of Vision 20:2020 Agricultural Policy and Food Production in Nigeria, 2007-2015

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariha Azalea
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Credit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
The Government ◽  
Modern Farming

The study set out to examine the implementation of the vision 20:2020 agricultural policy by the Federal Government and its effect on food production in Nigeria between 2007 and 2015. The qualitative method of data collection and analysis and the Marxian instrumentalist theory were adopted for the study. The study established that the implementation of the Vision 20:2020 did not effectively improve and modernize production systems in Nigeria between 2007 and 2015. Again, the implementation of Vision 20:2020 did not impact effectively on the production of tubers, grains and livestock in Nigeria between 2007 and 2015. The “improved seed projects”, Agricultural Credit Support Scheme (ACSS) as well as Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), and some stated subsidy packages (including that of acquisition of tractors, fast yielding crops, etc) could not be accessed by most farmers. Irrigation and efficient extension schemes, as well as use of highly disease resistant livestock campaign were not implemented. Adequate funds were not released for agricultural research institutes thus leading to low adaptability to modern farming techniques. Worse still, rural farmers lacked information on modern farming techniques, as monies meant for farmers’ enlightenment programmes were embezzled. Therefore, production of tubers, grains and livestock has either declined from 129947000 tons in 2006 (i.e. prior to implementation period) or recorded insignificant increases subsequently as against the policy goal of 100 percent increase in production. The study recommended that the government should match the Vision 20:2020 agricultural policy with commensurate funding and corrupt practices must also be checked at the level of policy implementation so as to achieve good result. The government should also advance workable strategy of attracting meaningful contribution from the private sector under the public-private partnership (PPP) framework.

scholarly journals Transforming Food Systems Through Food Sovereignty: An Australian Urban Context

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Davila ◽  
Robert Dyball
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Alternative Food Systems ◽  
Environmental Support ◽  
Urban Food Production

AbstractThis article draws on La Via Campesina's definition of food sovereignty and its potential for reconceptualising food as a basic human right within the dominant Australian food discourse. We argue that the educative value that emerges from urban food production in Australia stems from the action of growing food and its capacity to transform individuals’ social and environmental concerns over food systems. Community participation in urban food production can promote a learning process that generates political understanding and concerns over food systems. We use the education theories of transformative learning and critical consciousness to discuss how Australian urban food production systems can create this social and environmental support for alternative food systems. By having control over food production practices and building collective understandings of how food choices impact global food systems, elements of food sovereignty can develop in an Australian urban context.

Consumer demand for animal welfare products.

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Faical Akaichi ◽  
Cesar Revoredo-Giha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Demand Side

Abstract Modern agricultural practices have increased the efficiency of food production with a decrease in their cost and prices for consumers. However, to some extent this has been detrimental to the ethical way in which livestock are treated, particularly in more intensive production systems. On the demand side, an increasing number of consumers are interested in the way that food is produced and the attributes behind it. Animal welfare is one of those ethical attributes that are particularly important for consumers, and at the retail level, it is reflected in a number of labels aiming at passing cues (due to its nature as a credence attribute) to consumers. For meat supply chains, these labels have the possibility to positively affect sales if consumers are willing to pay more for products with those attributes. Moreover, if increasing animal welfare implies higher costs of production, it is important for the supply chain to know whether these costs can be passed on to consumers. These issues have motivated a substantive literature on the measurement of consumers' interest in animal welfare and their willingness to pay for its attributes. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the economic theory behind the measurement of animal welfare and some empirical applications.

Curriculum Development for Food Production Operations Teaching for the Hospitality Industry: A Systems Framework

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cousins ◽  
D. Foskett
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Catering Industry ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Systems Framework

A systems framework for food production systems is posited in order to enable comparisons to be made with production operations outside the catering industry. By comparing “Cook Chill” and “Fast Food” systems it is seen that cellular production has been adopted. Other operations management techniques can similarly be applied.

scholarly journals Nutrition in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i19-i23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Grosso ◽  
Alberto Mateo ◽  
Natalie Rangelov ◽  
Tatjana Buzeti ◽  
Christopher Birt
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a common framework of international cooperation to promote sustainable development. Nutrition is the key point for the SDG 2 ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’ and is an essential component for achieving many of the other targets: overall, the nutritional aspects of the SDGs aim to promote healthy and sustainable diets and ensure food security globally. While undernutrition is of minimal concern in the European Union Member States, trends in childhood obesity are still alarming and far from any desirable target. European food production systems have improved over the last years, with immediate impact on several environmental aspects; however, a comprehensive regulatory framework to fulfil the environmental and climate targets is still lacking. Policy actions at multinational level are needed to achieve global nutrition targets designed to guide progress towards tackling all forms of malnutrition while preserving the environment through virtuous food production and food systems.

Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities

2018 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Jinky Leilanie Del Prado-Lu
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Farming Communities

Understanding the health risks of farmers and farming communities is essential in elaborating the phenomenon of food crime. This chapter argues that the production of agricultural food products is inimical to the health and safety of those who produce them. This is an ironic situation where the providers of food – farmers – become vulnerable, ill or injured, or disabled, or even die in the process of agricultural production. This is compounded by the lack of social and health protection for farmers, and absence of institutional support for farming in many developing countries despite the fact that farming is the most elemental and basic means of food production in society. This chapter argues that agricultural practices arising from market-oriented agricultural policies of institutions and governments present as food crime, and there should be conscious and concerted considerations at the institutional level, in including ecologic, health, and social implications of food production systems.

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