Brief Background
The food systems of all nations are exposed to a range of current and future challenges in a variety of ways. These include climate change, extreme weather and natural resource depletion, concurrent with substantial changes in socio-economic-cultural conditions and dietary patterns. Some of these changes are gradual (e.g. global mean temperature increase, demographics, dietary change, cultural evolution, sea-level rise), and can be thought of as increasing stresses. Others can be sudden (e.g., extreme weather events, financial market crashes, disease outbreaks, political volatility, trade wars, conflict), and are thought of as shocks. This then leads to the questions of how can the resilience of our food systems, from landscapes to value chains, be enhanced to face these stresses and shocks, what CSA-related policies could be developed to support this, and how would they impact different food system actors?
Session Objectives
- To raise awareness within the CSA community of the need to include resilience thinking in planning their work.
- To consolidate collaboration between GFS-FSR and CIFOR/FTA on resilience issues.
- To collect material for a possible short paper for submission as a Commentary to Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.
Chairperson/Moderator
Dr John Ingram, University of Oxford
Rapporteur
Prof Bill Belloti, University of Queensland
