Series The agrifood system and the challenges of COVID-19

In this text we explore the relationship between vitiviniculture and environment, observing the current conjuncture in which environmental problems are worsening. Taking as a baseline a survey of the literature and as a time frame the 1970s to the present, we begin by examining the development of vitiviniculture from the wider perspective of the contemporary global agrifood system, highlighting in particular the environmental impacts generated by this system. Next, taking into account the panorama of vitiviniculture in Brazil, we turn our focus to notions of sustainability with the aim of outlining possibilities for a reconfiguring of this issue and, at the same time, contextualizing the extent to which the country has been pursuing this direction. We conclude that the future of winemaking depends especially on a more harmonious intervention of human beings in the environment.

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2020 Annual trends and outlook report: Sustaining Africa's agrifood system transformation: The role of public policies: Synopsis

10.2499/9780896293953 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Policies ◽

System Transformation ◽

Agrifood System ◽

Annual Trends

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AGENCY AND THE AGRIFOOD SYSTEM

The Fight Over Food ◽

10.5325/j.ctv14gpb9b.6 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 45-68

Author(s):

William H. Friedland

Keyword(s):

Agrifood System

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2. Agency and the Agrifood System

The Fight Over Food ◽

10.1515/9780271034980-005 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 45-68

Author(s):

William Friedland

Keyword(s):

Agrifood System

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Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban

The Journal of Development Studies ◽

10.1080/00220388.2020.1808198 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael Dolislager ◽

Thomas Reardon ◽

Aslihan Arslan ◽

Louise Fox ◽

Saweda Liverpool-Tasie ◽

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Keyword(s):

Developing Regions ◽

Agrifood System

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Crossing Sociological, Ecological, and Nutritional Perspectives on Agrifood Systems Transitions: Towards a Transdisciplinary Territorial Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11051284 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 1284 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Claire Lamine ◽

Danièle Magda ◽

Marie-Josèphe Amiot

Keyword(s):

Food Systems ◽

Ecological Processes ◽

Alternative Food Systems ◽

Environment And Health ◽

Agrifood System ◽

The Social ◽

Territorial Approach ◽

Reflexive Analysis ◽

Analytical Frameworks ◽

System Approaches

The need to reconnect agriculture, environment, food, and health when addressing agrifood system transitions is widely acknowledged. However, most analytical frameworks, especially in the expanding literature about “system approaches”, rely on impact-based approaches and, thus, tend to overlook ecological processes as well as social ones. This article aims at demonstrating that a territorial approach to agrifood system transitions is more appropriate to tackle the reconnection between agriculture, food, environment, and health than the larger scales (global or national food systems) or the smaller ones (such as those of alternative food systems) usually addressed in the literature. Co-elaborated by a sociologist, an ecologist, and a nutritionist, this article is based on a focused analysis of the literature that has addressed agrifood system transitions in the food and health sciences and in the social sciences and on the reflexive analysis of two past projects dealing with such transitions. It shows that a territorial approach allows including in the analysis the diverse agrifood systems’ components as well the ecological and social processes that may create functionalities for improving agrifood systems’ sustainability. This territorial approach is based on systemic and processual thinking and on a transdisciplinary perspective combining an objectification stance and a pragmatist constructivist one. It should allow actors and researchers to build a shared understanding of the transition processes within their shared territorial agrifood system, despite possibly different and diverging views.

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