The Elgar Companion to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development by Pradhan, Prajal; Pant, Laxmi Prasad;

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This expansive Companion examines the relationship between food systems and sustainability, exploring why transforming the food system is a vital step in achieving sustainability that extends beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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This expansive Companion examines the relationship between food systems and sustainability, exploring why transforming the food system is a vital step in achieving sustainability that extends beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Combining theoretical insights with practical applications, this Companion presents regional case studies spanning every continent to identify both current challenges and future prospects for sustainable food system development. Contributors interrogate the synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs and how they relate to nexus thinking, including the water-energy-food nexus and its recent variations. Examining governance from state, market, and voluntary sector perspectives, contributing authors argue that governance by goals, such as the SDGs, is an insufficient way to adequately reshape food systems in order to be more sustainable.

The Elgar Companion to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development is a crucial resource for students and scholars of human geography, agronomy, agroecology, political ecology, climate science, and environmental studies. Policymakers, advocacy groups and civil society actors will also benefit from the book’s forward-thinking strategies and policy recommendations.

‘This Companion is a critical guide to a just and sustainable food system transformation, offering essential evidence and strategies. It powerfully charts the complex linkages with global goals, providing specific insights for navigating an equitable future.’

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Contents
List of contributors viii
1 Introduction to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development 1
Prajal Pradhan and Laxmi Prasad Pant
2 Promoting agro-food system transformation and poverty eradication 9
Mingxing Sun and Shaoyue Ma
3 Ending all forms of malnutrition through food system transformation 23
Charoula Konstantia Nikolaou and Laxmi Prasad Pant
4 Sustainable food systems for health and wellbeing 37
Sharada Prasad Wasti, Atul Upadhyay and Laxmi Prasad Pant
5 Moving beyond the colonial single-track education for food system
transformation toward sustainability 53
Kishor Atreya, Kanchan Kattel, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai and Laxmi
Prasad Pant
6 Food systems transformation for achieving gender equality and
contributing to Sustainable Development Goals 72
Hom Nath Gartaula, Deepali Chadha, Kishor Atreya, Prama
Mukhopadhyay, Anisha Sapkota and Ranjitha Puskur
7 Sustainable water–food system transformation in arid and semi-arid
regions 88
Rocky Talchabhadel, Sanjib Sharma, Analicia L. Perez and Elizabeth F. Racine
8 On kilowatts and calories: integrating sustainable energy in food systems 100
Laurence L. Delina and Chloe Chan
9 Leverage points for achieving integrated socio-ecological security across
the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus 115
Larry A. Swatuk, Corrine Cash and Natasha Tang Kai
10 Will it work out for labour? Implications of the food system transformation
on employment and decent work 132
Claudia Hunecke
11 Responsible innovation for sustainable and just food systems 149
Cody Kugler, Maria Boa-Alvarado, Mario Herrero and Daniel Mason-D’Croz
12 Food system transformation to reduce inequality within and among
countries 166
Madiha Ahmed and Sandra Gagnon
13 Provisioning sustainable food for cities and human settlements: principles
and examples 182
Ina Horlings, Stephen Leitheiser, Pablo Tittonell and Elen-Maarja Trell
14 The dual role of government in transforming urban food systems in Berlin 201
Stefanie Lyn Becker
15 Responsible food production and consumption 208
Yuanchao Hu, Vivienne Reiner, Mengyu Li and Arunima Malik
16 Food system transformation for climate action 221
Toshihiro Hasegawa, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Helen Gurney-Smith
17 Climate-smart agriculture for South Asia to transform food system and
sustainable development 236
Rajiv Ghimire and Jagadish Parajuli
18 Climate change driven agricultural frontiers: land sparing and land sharing
strategies in Canada’s north 245
Krishna Bahadur KC and Edan Tzadok
19 Climate change threats to supply chains in Australia’s food bowl 253
Vivienne Reiner and Arunima Malik
20 Terrestrial versus aquatic foods: how more seafood can help to conserve
life below water (SDG14) 260
Holger Kühnhold and Furqan Asif
21 Insights into three alternative agriculture practices to foster food system
transformation for life on land 283
Jorien Zevenberg and Henny J. van der Windt
22 Strategies for implementing the food, ecosystem, and climate nexus 298
Junze Zhang and Mengting Luo
23 Accelerating land restoration for enhancing pastoral livelihoods in
Mandera County of Kenya 314
Erick Wanga, David Kitheka, Salil Bhattarai and Avish Raj
24 Farming diversification and agroecological practices: pathways to
sustainable systems in the Andean-Amazon foothills 319
Lucila Marcela Beltrán Tolosa, Martin Londoño Behaine and Marcela
Quintero
25 Peace, justice, and food system transformation 328
Caroline Delgado and Dan Smith
26 Conclusion: directionality and diversity of food system governance
partnerships toward sustainable futures 346
Laxmi Prasad Pant, Tim Benton, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai, Raju
Pandit Chhetri, Tek Bahadur Sapkota and Prajal Pradhan