scholarly journals Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework

2022 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 100591
Author(s):  
Gareth D. Borman ◽  
Walter S. de Boef ◽  
Flo Dirks ◽  
Yeray Saavedra Gonzalez ◽  
Abishkar Subedi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Multi Level

scholarly journals An analytical framework for employment regulation: investigating the regulatory space

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Inversi ◽  
Lucy Ann Buckley ◽  
Tony Dundon
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labour Policy ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Multi Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance a conceptual analytical framework to help explain employment regulation as a dynamic process shaped by institutions and actors. The paper builds on and advances regulatory space theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses the literature on regulatory theory and engages with its theoretical development. Findings The paper advances the case for a broader and more inclusive regulatory approach to better capture the complex reality of employment regulation. Further, the paper engages in debates about the complexity of employment regulation by adopting a multi-level perspective. Research limitations/implications The research proposes an analytical framework and invites future empirical investigation. Originality/value The paper contends that existing literature affords too much attention to a (false) regulation vs deregulation dichotomy, with insufficient analysis of other “spaces” in which labour policy and regulation are formed and re-formed. In particular, the proposed framework analyses four different regulatory dimensions, combining the legal aspects of regulation with self-regulatory dimensions of employment regulation.

Comprehensive Assessment and Policy Suggestions on Building Multi-Level National Service Centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950010
Author(s):  
Yi LIU ◽  
Yao LI
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Producer Services ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Strategic Layout ◽  
Capital Development

The strategic position of a country’s central cities in the global city network is mainly embodied by the functions of the service industry and high-end producer services in particular. With a view to enhance the economic control power, building a country with considerable strength in the service industry is to build multi-level national central cities capable of performing service functions according to a strategic layout. By looking back on the law of development of central cities of service industry around the globe, we first dug into the issue from the fundamental principles of new economic geography about the formation of industrial clusters; then incorporated influencing factors, such as factor endowment, outward connections, inward connections, institutional factors, market size, knowledge capital, development cost and consumption, into a uniform analytical framework; and established an indicator system for assessing the competitiveness of service industry cluster centers, whereby we assessed the comprehensive strength of 105 cities in building national central cities of service industry. The research results show that it is supposed to enhance China’s leading and controlling capability in the world’s service network by relying on two key cities, i.e. Beijing and Shanghai; and the other 15 cities, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, Qingdao, Changsha, Kunming and Urumqi, are most likely to become the national central cities of service industry, which can provide comprehensive services or specialized functions.

scholarly journals TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK TO MAP SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS IN FOOD SYSTEMS

AGROFOR ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid EL BILALI ◽  
Lorenz PROBST
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Change Initiatives ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Social

Transitions to sustainable food systems are considered necessary to addresssustainability challenges in industrial food systems – but also to achieve food andnutrition security especially in countries of the South. To facilitate such transitions,we need a thorough analytical understanding of change processes in food systems.Different transition frameworks have been suggested in the literature, with theMulti-Level Perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transitions being the mostprominent. While MLP has proven to be a useful heuristic, earlier studies haveidentified weak points (e.g. regarding agency, power, landscape factors andinstitutional innovations) calling for the integration of complementary concepts.This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of sustainability transitions infood systems that integrates elements of the Social Practices Approach, TransitionManagement, Strategic Niche Management and Innovation Systems. The startingpoint of the suggested analytical process is to map emerging sustainable foodsystems along the MLP levels of niche, regime and landscape. To better understandprocesses of creating and developing initiatives in food systems, our mapping relieson Innovation System approaches (e.g. identifying actors and their networks),Transition Management (e.g. niche stabilization and expansion processes) andStrategic Niche Management (e.g. breakthroughs). As wider transitions require areconfiguration of relevant regimes, interactions across levels are of particularinterest. The Social Practices Approach helps to make niche-regime interactionsexplicit. Finally, by looking at the impacts and outcomes of change initiatives, wecan make statements about the type of transition pathway taken – and whether aninitiative has transformative potential or is an incremental adaptation. Further workis needed to refine and test the framework in different contexts.

scholarly journals Shifting food policy from commodity to community thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Laura Knowlson ◽  
Rachel Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
The North ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Policy Guidance

Over the last five years, N8 AgriFood has united the expertise of food systems thinkers across the eight most research intensive universities in the North of England, in a programme working to address key issues around food systems resilience across the themes of food production, supply chains and consumer health. As the programme moves towards focusing the results of its research and combined multidisciplinary expertise into policy guidance, the authors of this paper from within N8 AgriFood take an overview of the work undertaken across the programme’s eight member institutions. It explores work around linking communities to food, and the vital potential of the research to inform new policy that encapsulates societal sustainability into food systems thinking.

scholarly journals Pembangunan Inklusif Gender dan Desentralisasi Pemerintahan: Memperkuat Suara dan Pengaruh Perempuan melalui Aksi Kolektif di Daerah Perdesaan Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Diprose ◽  
Amalinda Savirani ◽  
Tamas Wells
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
Causal Processes ◽  
Gender Inclusion ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Research And Policy

This peer-reviewed research and policy paper (available in English and Bahasa Indonesia) draws on analysis of how women influence decision making in Indonesia's multi-level governance structure under the new Village Law in Indonesia. The analysis identifies the ways that women, through different causal processes, influence development priorities, spending, projects, policies and policy actors, as well as social norms in communities. The analysis draws from a large, qualitative comparative study conducted in different places throughout Indonesia, providing an analytical framework for understanding variation in social and politico-economic contexts in terms of the constraints and opportunities for gender inclusion and women's empowerment. The research also explains variations in the processes by which women exercise voice and influence in these differing contexts, providing considerations for policy makers and others concerned with gender inclusion, women's empowerment and everyday wellbeing.

Lock-ins and opportunities for sustainability transition

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 1109-1124
Author(s):  
Maarten Deleye ◽  
Katrien Van Poeck ◽  
Thomas Block
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This study aims to provide an overview of sustainability in Flemish higher education (HE) by using the multi-level perspective (MLP) on sustainability transitions for a comprehensive empirical analysis of how sustainability is embedded in Flemish HE. Design/methodology/approach MLP was used as analytical framework to study the case and allow a focus on the interplay between innovative experiments in niche-practices, the characteristics of the prevailing regime (dominant structures, cultures and practices) and macro-trends at the landscape level. The data were collected through document analyses, surveys, in-depth interviews and a focus group. The empirical analysis was complemented with an extensive literature study. Findings In all, 9 landscape trends, 21 regime characteristics and 5 types of niches are identified. Furthermore, the multi-level analysis revealed 5 important lock-ins in the dominant regime that impede the upscaling of sustainable niches, 5 internal contradictions that destabilise the regime and can thus create windows of opportunity for niches to become viable alternatives and 16 opportunities for further embedding sustainability in HE. Originality/value The paper gives an original insight into the complexities of integrating sustainability in HE, highlights the important role of policy entrepreneurs to grasp emerging opportunities and offers them insight into how to create momentum and identify and fruitfully address windows of opportunity for a sustainability transition. It shows the potential and limits of the MLP for research on HE and outlines prospects for future research.

scholarly journals Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food Systems in low and Middle Income Countries

Food Security ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1085-1105
Author(s):  
Mequanint B. Melesse ◽  
Marrit van den Berg ◽  
Christophe Béné ◽  
Alan de Brauw ◽  
Inge D. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Abstract Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food system performance, and evaluate the impacts of food system interventions. Food system metrics are also useful to structure debates and communicate to policy makers and the general public. This paper provides an updated analytical framework of food systems and uses this to identify systematically relevant metrics and indicators based on data availability in low and middle income countries. We conclude that public data are relatively well available for food system drivers and outcomes, but not for all of the food system activities. With only minor additional investments, existing surveys could be extended to cover a large part of the required additional data. For some indicators, however, targeted data collection efforts are needed. As the list of indicators partly overlaps with the indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), part of the collected data could serve not only to describe and monitor food systems, but also to track progress towards attaining the SDGs.

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