About this Research Topic
The editorial committee for this collection of papers, consisting of Henk Renting, Prof. Dr. Carola Strassner and Prof. Dr. Barbara Burlingame wish to compile scientific contributions in the form of original research, review, and opinion that can shed light on the complex web of drivers, relations and emerging outcomes of food system innovation. Examples for potential contributions include, but are not limited to, conceptual models of sustainable food systems, developments around food system monitoring and evaluation, effective food system governance mechanisms, methods for total food system cost accounting, sustainable diets, foodshed definitions or food sovereignty concepts. Equally welcome are contributions pertaining to documentation methods of food systems and newly sprouting networks such as City Region Food System, ALGOA (Asian Local Governments for Organic Agriculture), or the MUFPP (Milan Urban Food Policy Pact) as well as Bio-Distretti or Bio-regions as developed in the Organic City Network Europe.
While this may seem like an eclectically broad theme, it is our shared conviction that further investigation might reveal patterns of converging communities of practice that speak to similar concerns and sensitivities of scientific and societal actors engaged in sustainable food systems around the planet. Against this background, our special collection aims to capture a diversity of approaches in understanding, measuring and analyzing food systems, actors and components across their temporal and spatial manifestations, and contribute to enhancing our common scientific understanding of food system sustainability.
Keywords: Sustainable Food Systems, Sustainable Development Goals, Agroecology, Methodology, Food System Monitoring, Governance Mechanisms
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