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Shittu E, Kantamaneni K, Campos LC. Investigating how COVID-19 has challenged the Eurocentric concept of 'development': a case for sustainable food systems in the UK. Food Energy Secur 2022; 11:e416. [PMID: 36249717 PMCID: PMC9538086 DOI: 10.1002/fes3.416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 health crisis has imposed extensive shocks to many global systems, particularly the UK food production chains, further challenging Eurocentric development discourses and stereotypes. Thus, this paper investigates how the pandemic has challenged the UK's development status by analysing how the pandemic has impacted the country's food industry. A literature review was conducted and used to identify, select and critically appraise publications between 2000 and 2021 discussing the challenges in the UK food system. The findings reveal that the UK's food industry is unsustainable as there are significant flaws in the system, that is food insecurity and food waste that go unaddressed. The impact of the pandemic has exacerbated the social and economic impacts of operating with such a system. Compounded with the geopolitical adjustments caused by Brexit, the UK is faced with the challenge of restructuring and developing new frameworks such as policies, regulations, schemes and partnerships to support the food industry's sustainability. Lastly, the findings reinforce that 'developed' and 'developing' nations encounter similar food challenges, which manifest differently in various landscapes and contexts. Therefore, the world (not just the UK) needs to shift away from Eurocentrism, moving towards a universal but equally personalised development outlook. This review provides an outline of the major problem areas in the UK food system and presents potential solutions aimed at helping guide the government's decision-making process.
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- University College LondonLondonUK
- Faculty of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Central LancashirePrestonUK
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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy. SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13116260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development. Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are hard to find. Therefore, the present systematic review delineated the contours of this growing research strand and analyzed how it relates to sustainability. A search performed on the Web of Science in January 2020 yielded 1389 documents, and 1289 were selected and underwent bibliometric and topical analyses. The topical analysis was informed by the SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) approach of FAO and structured along four dimensions viz. environment, economy, society and culture, and policy and governance. The review shows an increasing interest in AFS with an exponential increase in publications number. However, the study field is north-biased and dominated by researchers and organizations from developed countries. Moreover, the analysis suggests that while environmental aspects are sufficiently addressed, social, economic, and political ones are generally overlooked. The paper ends by providing directions for future research and listing some topics to be integrated into a comprehensive, multidisciplinary agenda addressing the multifaceted (un)sustainability of AFS. It makes the case for adopting a holistic, 4-P (planet, people, profit, policy) approach in agri-food system studies.
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Stefanovic L, Freytag-Leyer B, Kahl J. Food System Outcomes: An Overview and the Contribution to Food Systems Transformation. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.546167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Martindale W, Duong L, Hollands TÆ, Swainson M. Testing the data platforms required for the 21st century food system using an industry ecosystem approach. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 724:137871. [PMID: 32240862 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Testing the planning of resource utilisation across food supply chains provides sustainability and security reporting that can resonate with consumer requirements. The research reported here demonstrates this approach for fast throughput convenience foods that have short shelf life and whose product development must be agile enough to meet changing consumer demand. The higher-level outputs of these conditions are the responsible reporting of nutritional, greenhouse gas emission and packaging impact assessments. Together with the food safety requirements of this food category, it means that manufacturing operations are in some of the most challenging arenas for sustainability assessment. The analysis presented here shows that food production systems can no longer focus on one or two core conditions, such as food safety or quality. This is a strategy of least resistance that has previously worked but it continues to displace risks elsewhere within the food and beverage meta-system, rather than attempting to reconcile complexities and address intra-system root causes. By taking a holistic view the food ecosystem approach can inter-connect requirements using digital and externally linked platforms that will fundamentally change the way future food systems operate. The integration and streaming of these platforms are only achieved through innovation, with the end-user providing development and balance in emergent business ecosystems.
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- Wayne Martindale
- Food Insights and Sustainability, National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach Campus, Park Road, Holbeach PE12 7PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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- Food Insights and Sustainability, National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach Campus, Park Road, Holbeach PE12 7PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Food Insights and Sustainability, National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach Campus, Park Road, Holbeach PE12 7PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Food Insights and Sustainability, National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach Campus, Park Road, Holbeach PE12 7PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Hussin H, Gregory PJ, Julkifle AL, Sethuraman G, Tan XL, Razi F, Azam-Ali SN. Enhancing the Nutritional Profile of Noodles With Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea) and Moringa (Moringa oleifera): A Food System Approach. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The Impact of Resource and Nutritional Resilience on the Global Food Supply System. SUSTAINABILITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/su12020751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Pressure points in global food supply where resilience in supply chains can be limited or controlled are the equivalent of Critical Control Points in food safety systems. The approach of using critical control in supply chains can provide insights for nutritional improvement, sustainable food trade and food waste reduction. The pressure points determine the provision of a secure and sustainable food system where the outcomes of reducing their criticality are identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other international programmes. These seek to reduce climate change impact and improve public health provision. While policy makers are rightly focussed on these targets, the data analysis methods required to rank and associate resource flow pressure points with commercial food supply chains and nutritional goals remain untested. Here, we show how methodologies can identify where opportunities to tackle future criticality exist, and where they are currently being overlooked for food categories that have the greatest consumer and dietary protein demand. The analysis provides insights that identify where latent restrictions in resilience can occur, so that the future risk of food insecurity is reduced.
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Eme PE, Douwes J, Kim N, Foliaki S, Burlingame B. Review of Methodologies for Assessing Sustainable Diets and Potential for Development of Harmonised Indicators. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:E1184. [PMID: 30986991 PMCID: PMC6479933 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16071184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Revised: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The underlying values and priorities that drive policy responses depend largely on the constructs that researchers and decision makers select to measure and the metrics used. Despite much recent attention being given to sustainable diets and food systems and to the importance of clearly measuring sustainability to meet targets, to achieve goals, and to appraise dietary and environmental policies, it is not commonly agreed how the different indicators of sustainable diets are assessed. The evidence base for assessment of these indicators are frequently weak, fragmented, and arbitrary. The aim of this paper was to compare a range of published methods and indicators for assessing sustainable diets and food systems in order to harmonise them. Keyword and reference searches were performed in PubMed, Scopus, CAB Abstracts, and Web of Knowledge. Fifty-two studies (21 proposed methods and 31 used methods) that combined environment, nutrition and health, and socioeconomic aspects of sustainable diets were reviewed. The majority (over 90%) of the studies focused on high-income countries. Twenty-eight studies assessed the environmental effects of different dietary practices, eight of the studies examined the nutrition and health indicators used for assessing sustainable food systems, and seven studies assessed the social and economic costs of diets. A classification of the elements was developed, and common elements are proposed for standardizing. These elements were categorized into nutrition and health indicators, environment indicators, and socioeconomic indicators. Standardized or harmonized indicators can be used for consistency and applicability purposes and to support, implement, and monitor relevant policies.
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- Paul Eze Eme
- School of Health Sciences, College of Health Science, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand.
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- Centre of Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
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- School of Health Sciences, College of Health Science, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand.
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- Centre of Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
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- School of Health Sciences, College of Health Science, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand.
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De Boeck E, Jacxsens L, Goubert H, Uyttendaele M. Ensuring food safety in food donations: Case study of the Belgian donation/acceptation chain. Food Res Int 2017; 100:137-149. [PMID: 28888434 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.08.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Revised: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The food donation process in Belgium is mapped and analyzed to identify bottlenecks in compliance with the legal framework and implementation of food safety management, based on literature search and interviews with stakeholders (donors, acceptors, regulators and facilitators) in Belgium and at EU level. The study revealed that the food donation/acceptation chain is far less structured and organized than the conventional food supply chain. The fragmented landscape of many small food banks and charity organizations (acceptors), often directed by and working with volunteers without training in food safety and lack of knowledge of legal food hygiene requirements is a bottleneck to generate trust among food donors and restricts the provision of perishable products in food donations. Lack of refrigerated transport and insufficient cold/freezing capacity in food banks and charity organizations was identified as a barrier to distribute perishable products. Furthermore, in two cities in Flanders (Belgium), at some food donation centers, donated perishable food samples (n=72) were taken and subjected to microbiological analysis to determine their overall food quality, hygiene and food safety status. Twenty-two of 72 analyzed samples showed marginal microbiological quality based on numbers of yeast, lactic acid bacteria or total viable count. In three samples Listeria monocytogenes was detected per 25g among which one ready-to-eat cooked meat product which showed increased numbers of L. monocytogenes (3.5logCFU/g) and Enterobacteriaceae (6.7logCFU/g). Overall, in Belgium, most of the donated foods considers nonperishable foods, with more or less half of the food collected by the food banks being purchased with funds from FEAD (Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived) and thus not derived from food losses. Efforts are being made by facilitators to provide a platform for better coordination of donors and acceptors to make more efficient use of food losses. Regulators at the national level are taking action to clarify and provide some flexibility in food hygiene regulation and initiatives on EU level to facilitate food donation in the combat of food losses are pending. As from the side of the acceptors, it is recommended to professionalize the acceptation chain in Belgium and seek for a more harmonized approach and concerted action.
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- E De Boeck
- Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (LFMFP), Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bio-Science Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (LFMFP), Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bio-Science Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (LFMFP), Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bio-Science Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (LFMFP), Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bio-Science Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
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Horton P, Banwart SA, Brockington D, Brown GW, Bruce R, Cameron D, Holdsworth M, Lenny Koh SC, Ton J, Jackson P. An agenda for integrated system-wide interdisciplinary agri-food research. Food Secur 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s12571-017-0648-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Augustin MA, Riley M, Stockmann R, Bennett L, Kahl A, Lockett T, Osmond M, Sanguansri P, Stonehouse W, Zajac I, Cobiac L. Role of food processing in food and nutrition security. Trends Food Sci Technol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2016.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Sense and Non-Sense of Local–Global Food Chain Comparison, Empirical Evidence from Dutch and Italian Pork Case Studies. SUSTAINABILITY 2016. [DOI: 10.3390/su8040319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Towards metrics of sustainable food systems: a review of the resilience and vulnerability literature. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10669-016-9584-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Kark S, Sutherland WJ, Shanas U, Klass K, Achisar H, Dayan T, Gavrieli Y, Justo-Hanani R, Mandelik Y, Orion N, Pargament D, Portman M, Reisman-Berman O, Safriel UN, Schaffer G, Steiner N, Tauber I, Levin N. Priority Questions and Horizon Scanning for Conservation: A Comparative Study. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0145978. [PMID: 26815653 PMCID: PMC4729468 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 12/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Several projects aimed at identifying priority issues for conservation with high relevance to policy have recently been completed in several countries. Two major types of projects have been undertaken, aimed at identifying (i) policy-relevant questions most imperative to conservation and (ii) horizon scanning topics, defined as emerging issues that are expected to have substantial implications for biodiversity conservation and policy in the future. Here, we provide the first overview of the outcomes of biodiversity and conservation-oriented projects recently completed around the world using this framework. We also include the results of the first questions and horizon scanning project completed for a Mediterranean country. Overall, the outcomes of the different projects undertaken (at the global scale, in the UK, US, Canada, Switzerland and in Israel) were strongly correlated in terms of the proportion of questions and/or horizon scanning topics selected when comparing different topic areas. However, some major differences were found across regions. There was large variation among regions in the percentage of proactive (i.e. action and response oriented) versus descriptive (non-response oriented) priority questions and in the emphasis given to socio-political issues. Substantial differences were also found when comparing outcomes of priority questions versus horizon scanning projects undertaken for the same region. For example, issues related to climate change, human demography and marine ecosystems received higher priority as horizon scanning topics, while ecosystem services were more emphasized as current priority questions. We suggest that future initiatives aimed at identifying priority conservation questions and horizon scanning topics should allow simultaneous identification of both current and future priority issues, as presented here for the first time. We propose that further emphasis on social-political issues should be explicitly integrated into future related projects.
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- Salit Kark
- The Biodiversity Research Group, The School of Biological Sciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
- The Biodiversity Research Group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
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- Dept. of Biology and Environment, University of Haifa-Oranim, Tivon, 36006, Israel
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- The Biodiversity Research Group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
- HaMa’arag – The Israel National Program for Ecosystem Assessment, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Albert Einstein Square, Jerusalem, 91040, Israel
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- The Biodiversity Research Group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Dept. of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Nature Campus, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Dept. of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Dept. of Entomology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, POB 012, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Earth and Environmental Sciences group, Dept. of Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Yarqon River Authority, PO Box 6297, Tel Aviv, 61067, Israel
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- Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Sede Boqer, 84990, Israel
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- Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel
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- Open Landscapes and Biodiversity Division, The Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Forest Management, Monitoring and GIS, KKL – Land Development Authority – Forest Department, The Jewish National Fund, Eshtaol, Israel
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- Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel
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Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach. SUSTAINABILITY 2016. [DOI: 10.3390/su8010095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Bruford MW, Ginja C, Hoffmann I, Joost S, Orozco-terWengel P, Alberto FJ, Amaral AJ, Barbato M, Biscarini F, Colli L, Costa M, Curik I, Duruz S, Ferenčaković M, Fischer D, Fitak R, Groeneveld LF, Hall SJG, Hanotte O, Hassan FU, Helsen P, Iacolina L, Kantanen J, Leempoel K, Lenstra JA, Ajmone-Marsan P, Masembe C, Megens HJ, Miele M, Neuditschko M, Nicolazzi EL, Pompanon F, Roosen J, Sevane N, Smetko A, Štambuk A, Streeter I, Stucki S, Supakorn C, Telo Da Gama L, Tixier-Boichard M, Wegmann D, Zhan X. Prospects and challenges for the conservation of farm animal genomic resources, 2015-2025. Front Genet 2015; 6:314. [PMID: 26539210 PMCID: PMC4612686 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Livestock conservation practice is changing rapidly in light of policy developments, climate change and diversifying market demands. The last decade has seen a step change in technology and analytical approaches available to define, manage and conserve Farm Animal Genomic Resources (FAnGR). However, these rapid changes pose challenges for FAnGR conservation in terms of technological continuity, analytical capacity and integrative methodologies needed to fully exploit new, multidimensional data. The final conference of the ESF Genomic Resources program aimed to address these interdisciplinary problems in an attempt to contribute to the agenda for research and policy development directions during the coming decade. By 2020, according to the Convention on Biodiversity's Aichi Target 13, signatories should ensure that “…the genetic diversity of …farmed and domesticated animals and of wild relatives …is maintained, and strategies have been developed and implemented for minimizing genetic erosion and safeguarding their genetic diversity.” However, the real extent of genetic erosion is very difficult to measure using current data. Therefore, this challenging target demands better coverage, understanding and utilization of genomic and environmental data, the development of optimized ways to integrate these data with social and other sciences and policy analysis to enable more flexible, evidence-based models to underpin FAnGR conservation. At the conference, we attempted to identify the most important problems for effective livestock genomic resource conservation during the next decade. Twenty priority questions were identified that could be broadly categorized into challenges related to methodology, analytical approaches, data management and conservation. It should be acknowledged here that while the focus of our meeting was predominantly around genetics, genomics and animal science, many of the practical challenges facing conservation of genomic resources are societal in origin and are predicated on the value (e.g., socio-economic and cultural) of these resources to farmers, rural communities and society as a whole. The overall conclusion is that despite the fact that the livestock sector has been relatively well-organized in the application of genetic methodologies to date, there is still a large gap between the current state-of-the-art in the use of tools to characterize genomic resources and its application to many non-commercial and local breeds, hampering the consistent utilization of genetic and genomic data as indicators of genetic erosion and diversity. The livestock genomic sector therefore needs to make a concerted effort in the coming decade to enable to the democratization of the powerful tools that are now at its disposal, and to ensure that they are applied in the context of breed conservation as well as development.
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- Michael W Bruford
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK ; Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
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- Faculdade de Ciências, Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais (CE3C), Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal ; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO-InBIO), Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão Portugal
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Genetic Resources Branch, Animal Production and Health Division Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France
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- Faculty of Sciences, BioISI- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon Campo Grande, Portugal
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
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- BioDNA Centro di Ricerca sulla Biodiversità a sul DNA Antico, Istituto di Zootecnica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza Italy
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
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- Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Green Technology Jokioinen, Finland
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- Institut für Populationsgenetik Vetmeduni, Vienna, Austria
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK ; Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Centre for Research and Conservation, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Green Technology Jokioinen, Finland ; Department of Biology, University of Eastern Finland Kuopio, Finland
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- Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
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- BioDNA Centro di Ricerca sulla Biodiversità a sul DNA Antico, Istituto di Zootecnica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza Italy
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- Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France
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- TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München Munich, Germany
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- Department of Animal Production, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK ; School of Agricultural Technology, Walailak University Tha Sala, Thailand
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- Centre of Research in Animal Health (CIISA) - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; Cardiff University - Institute of Zoology, Joint Laboratory for Biocomplexity Research Beijing, China
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Barling D, Duncan J. The dynamics of the contemporary governance of the world’s food supply and the challenges of policy redirection. Food Secur 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s12571-015-0429-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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