Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?

cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.045en
cg.issn0959-6526en
cg.journalJournal of Cleaner Productionen
cg.subject.ccafsLOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENTen
cg.volume73en
dc.contributor.authorGarnett, Taraen
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-16T06:37:38Zen
dc.date.available2014-12-16T06:37:38Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/52173
dc.titleThree perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?en
dcterms.abstractAchieving food system sustainability is a global priority but there are different views on how it might be achieved. Broadly three perspectives are emerging, defined here as: efficiency oriented, demand restraint and food system transformation. These reflect different conceptualisations on what is practically achievable, and what is desirable, underpinned by different values and ideologies about the role of technology, our relationship with nature and fundamentally what is meant by a ‘good life.’ This paper describes these emerging perspectives and explores their underlying values; highlights LCA's role in shaping these perspectives; and considers how LCA could be oriented to clarify thinking and advance policy-relevant knowledge. It argues that more work is needed to understand the values underlying different approaches to the food sustainability problem. This can shed light on why stakeholders disagree, where there are genuine misunderstandings, and where common ground is possible and ways forward agreed.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGarnett T. 2014. Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?. Journal of Cleaner Production 73:10-18en
dcterms.extentpp. 10-18en
dcterms.issued2014-06
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectclimateen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectlife cycle analysisen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectstakeholdersen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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