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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
A social–ecological analysis of the global agrifood system
Contributor:
Oteros-Rozas, Elisa;
Ruiz-Almeida, Adriana;
Aguado, Mateo;
González, José A.;
Rivera-Ferre, Marta G.
Published:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
Published in:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (2019) 52, Seite 26465-26473
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1912710116
ISSN:
0027-8424;
1091-6490
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Significance The failure to end hunger and the environmental deterioration underpinning food systems have prompted a paradigm shift around food security. We propose a social–ecological approach and carry out a quantitative analysis of 43 indicators of food sovereignty and 28 indicators of the sociodemographic, social wellbeing, and environmental sustainability situation in 150 countries. The results highlight the existence of an agrifood debt among countries (i.e., disequilibria in the natural resources consumed, the environmental impacts, and the social wellbeing in regions that play different roles within the globalized agrifood system). Three spotlights underpin this debt: 1) interregional contrasts in food security, 2) a concern about the role of agrifood trade, and 3) a mismatch between regional biocapacity and food security.