Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands

Food systems governance for healthy and sustainable diets remains a challenge. New structures are needed to better connect food systems actors. This paper argues that existing multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) have the potential to contribute to food systems governance by facilitating linkages between actors and scales. In a non-experimental study existing MSPs (n = 89) were explored in four countries addressing food and nutrition security. A diagnostic framework was used to identify MSP's capacities to address governance principles like system-based problem framing, boundary spanning, adaptability, inclusiveness, and transformative capacity. Existing MSPs can play a role in spanning boundaries, thereby increasing adaptability and learning, but seem less promising in shifting to systems-based narratives and thus may have limited capacity to truly transform food

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Main Authors: Herens, Marion C., Pittore, Katherine H., Oosterveer, Peter
Format: Journal Article biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-03
Subjects:food systems, governance, sustainability, stakeholders, food security, nutrition, adaptability, consumers,
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126277
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100592
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