A typology for agrifood systems
This document introduces a new agrifood systems typology developed for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 based on the typology developed by Marshall et al. (2021). It aims to categorize countries based on multiple dimensions of their agrifood systems, offering a valuable complement to context-specific analyses. The typology helps policymakers identify effective policy levers for transforming agrifood systems to deliver nutritious, sustainable diets globally. Agrifood systems are complex, encompassing the entire journey of food from production to consumption. These systems interact dynamically with natural, human, social, and environmental factors. They also face increasing environmental pressures, exacerbated by climate change, which disproportionately affect vulnerable rural communities. Agrifood systems play a crucial role in addressing these challenges and are central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A holistic understanding of these systems is essential for designing policies that drive sustainable transformation. To manage this complexity, typologies have been developed to classify agrifood systems based on economic, political, institutional, and geographical structures. By reducing complexity into identifiable characteristics, typologies help identify commonalities and distinctions across countries, providing a structured approach to policy discussions.
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| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2024
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd2991en |
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