Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges

Zurek M., Ingram J., Bellamy A. S., Goold C., Lyon C., Alexander P., ...More

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, vol.47, pp.511-534, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Review
  • Volume: 47
  • Publication Date: 2022
  • Doi Number: 10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744
  • Journal Name: ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, PASCAL, CAB Abstracts, Compendex, Environment Index, Greenfile, INSPEC, Pollution Abstracts, Public Affairs Index, DIALNET
  • Page Numbers: pp.511-534
  • Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) Affiliated: No

Abstract

Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions to frame food system resilience (Resilience of what? Resilience to what? Resilience from whose perspective? Resilience for how long?) and three approaches to enhancing resilience (robustness, recovery, and reorientation-the three "Rs"). We focus on enhancing resilience of food system outcomes and argue this will require food system actors adapting their activities, noting that activities do not change spontaneously but in response to a change in drivers: an opportunity or a threat. However, operationalizing resilience enhancement involves normative choices and will result in decisions having to be negotiated about trade-offs among food system outcomes for different stakeholders. New approaches to including different food system actors' perceptions and goals are needed to build food systems that are better positioned to address challenges of the future.