Towards More Sustainable Food Systems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: agricultural food system; agrobiodiversity; anaerobic digestion; application rate; behavior change; Bibliometrics; chilli pepper; China; climate change; codigestion; consumer attitudes; convention center; cultural practices; dead hogs; demographic correlates; dynamic environment; ecology; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; elevated temperature; energy and resource recovery; environmental concern; environmental concerns; Environmental economics; field; food access; food governance; food insecurity; food insecurity experience scale; food neophobia; food policy; food rescue; food security; food supply chains; food system sustainability; food systems; food waste; food waste and loss; food waste disposal; global environmental change; global food regimes; global warming; greenhouse; greenhouse gas emissions; guanxi; hog production; household; innovation; innovation and change; land; land tenure; land use consolidation; land-use planning; landfill diversion; livestock industry; local development; local knowledge; loss aversion; maize; meat avoiders; meat reducers; organic foods; organic manure; organic waste; planetary health; policy evaluation; political–economy; rain-shelter plastic house; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regime shifts; repeated purchase intention; Research and information: general; resilience; rural development; Rwanda; social–ecological systems; stakeholder engagement; sub-Saharan Africa; supply chain coordination; supply chain sustainability; sustainability; sustainability in the food sector; sustainable agriculture; tenure responsive; tenure responsive land-use planning; tenure security; traditional food systems; transformation; trust; urban agriculture; vulnerability of food systems; willingness to pay (WTP); Zanzibar
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-9048-6
• ISBN: 3036590498; 9783036590486; 303659048X; 9783036590493

Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and environmental changes adversely impact agricultural productivity. This Special Issue explores opportunities and challenges towards achieving more sustainable food systems. Essential changes required in food systems are highlighted, such as more effective food distribution, the avoidance or valorisation of food waste, and less meat consumption. How to actually achieve these required changes across food value chains is also presented. This Special Issue supports solution-oriented approaches towards addressing one of most complex challenges of this century. The reader is invited to study the publications included in this Special Issue in detail.