Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework

Gareth D. Borman; Walter S. de Boef; Flo Dirks; Yeray Saavedra Gonzalez; Abishkar Subedi; Marja H. Thijssen; Judith Jacobs; Ted Schrader; Salome Boyd; Hermine J. ten Hove; Edwin van der Maden; Irene Koomen; Sheila Assibey-Yeboah; Coulibaly Moussa; Assumpta Uzamukunda; Annabelle Daburon; Asaah Ndambi; Simone van Vugt; Joost Guijt; Jan Joost Kessler; Jan Willem Molenaar; Siemen van Berkum

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100591

Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework

Gareth D. Borman^*, Walter S. de Boef, Flo Dirks, Yeray Saavedra Gonzalez, Abishkar Subedi, Marja H. Thijssen, Judith Jacobs, Ted Schrader, Salome Boyd, Hermine J. ten Hove, Edwin van der Maden, Irene Koomen, Sheila Assibey-Yeboah, Coulibaly Moussa, Assumpta Uzamukunda, Annabelle Daburon, Asaah Ndambi, Simone van Vugt, Joost Guijt, Jan Joost KesslerJan Willem Molenaar, Siemen van Berkum

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In the wake of the United Nations Food Systems Summit - the first of its kind - practitioners need to capture the abstract concept of the food system and learn how the process of transformation that they engage in contributes to food system outcomes or risk operating in silos. With that aim, we focus on sector analysis, interpreting changes in sector performance as food system outcomes. This makes food systems thinking more actionable. We share an application of the integrated framework in a particular case: rapid assessments of the impact of COVID-19 on the functioning of the horticulture, sesame, and seed sectors across seven low- and middle-income countries. We highlight lessons learned from applying the multi-level integrated framework for putting food systems thinking into practice.

Original language	English
Article number	100591
Journal	Global Food Security
Volume	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100591
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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Agricultural sector
Food systems
Rapid assessment
System innovation
United nations food systems summit

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Borman, G. D., de Boef, W. S., Dirks, F., Gonzalez, Y. S., Subedi, A., Thijssen, M. H., Jacobs, J., Schrader, T., Boyd, S., ten Hove, H. J., van der Maden, E., Koomen, I., Assibey-Yeboah, S., Moussa, C., Uzamukunda, A., Daburon, A., Ndambi, A., van Vugt, S., Guijt, J., ... van Berkum, S. (2022). Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework. Global Food Security, 32, Article 100591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100591

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