The Expanding Moral Circle as a Framework Towards Food Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Herdzoia ◽  
Ernst Worrell ◽  
Floris van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Societal Participation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Agendas

A shift towards more environmentally friendly and socially responsible food systems is a key step in the achievement of global sustainable development goals. To obtain significant results, however, it is essential to find participative ways to frame food sustainability objectives, so they can speak to a wide array of actors of change. This article addresses the promising potential of empowering actors across the food system to make a shift in their food choices, by facilitating the association of food sustainability values with contemporary moral issues. In this context, a conceptual framework for a transition towards food sustainability is proposed, based upon the concept of the moral circle. This approach transcends the human-centred methods enacted in traditional sustainable development agendas, offering an alternative with a more holistic perspective. It is expected that emphasising moral reflection around sustainability might encourage societal participation in the creation of sustainable, fair and healthier food systems.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development Goal Drivers in Food Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Kretschmer ◽  
Johannes Kahl
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food System ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Linear Processes ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Diagnostic Framework ◽  
Primary Predictor

Interacting driving forces in food systems, resulting in cumulative driver effects and synergies, induce non-linear processes in multiple directions. This paper critically reviews the discourse on driving forces in food systems and argues that mindset is the primary predictor for food system outcomes. In the epoch of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Anthropocene, mindset matters more than ever. Transformative narratives are beginning to transcend the dominant social paradigm, which is still driving the food system's overall trajectory. The psychosocial portrayal of the systemic mindset found in organic food systems presented in this paper “flips the script” and hypothesizes that worldview and paradigm have the most causal linkages with unsustainable driver synergies and reversely the biggest leverage on the mitigation thereof. Borrowing from ecological economics discourses, the paper sharpens the driver definition by applying the DPSIR analytical tool as a modified diagnostic framework and modeling approach for food systems. This research sheds new light on the nature of drivers of change, which are often portrayed as almighty and inevitable trends shaping food systems. Instead, it is proposed that drivers emerge from the actors' mindset, affecting food system behavior in a non-linear way. Mindset drives reinforcing feedback loops, resulting in vicious and virtuous cycles. These driver motives manifest in subsystems and continue to drive their interaction across food system elements. Mindset acts as an encapsulated input of food systems, all the while responding to feedback and releasing new drivers. A transformation framework along leverage points of the food system is presented that features the concept of SDG drivers.

scholarly journals The Future We Want: Sustainable Development Goals Accomplishment with Organic Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Srđan Šeremešić ◽  
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Željko Dolijanović ◽  
Mirela Tomaš Simin ◽  
Bojan Vojnov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food System ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Agriculture Systems

The aim of the paper is to enlighten the role that organic agriculture can have in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Currently, sustainable agriculture systems are not adequately recognized in SDG and supported by the decision-makers. Given that agriculture plays one of the key roles in sustainable development accomplishment, the introduction of an organic agriculture can be a basis to implementing SDG. Organic agriculture has multiple benefits as most valuable option in redesigning food systems to achieve ecological, economic, and social sustainability. Moreover it could encompass and establish food system from field to fork necessary to complete the SDG without oversize resource depletion and negative impact on the environment. The study showed that by placing organic agriculture in the agenda of SDG it is possible to create conditions for sustainable development while identify and manage trade-offs in agriculture and maximising co-benefits.

‘COVID-19/Food Insecurity Syndemic’: Navigating the Realities of Food Security Imperatives of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Ezirigwe ◽  
Chinelo Ojike ◽  
Emeka Amechi ◽  
Adebambo Adewopo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food System ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan

AbstractThe current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting on food systems and has exposed the poor state of food security and lack of food system infrastructures. Consequently, sub-Saharan Africa countries face the compounded risk of COVID-19 and hunger. The syndemic will pose serious challenges for achieving food security imperatives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This article discusses the dynamics of food security imperatives brought about by COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the mitigating efforts of sub-Saharan African governments in addressing COVID-19 and how this effort impacts the attainment of SDGs One, Two, Three and 12. It finds that while the pandemic provides an opportunity for governments to strengthen their commitments, it raises questions on the ambitious global efforts to deliver SDGs by 2030. It recommends that African governments need to maximize intra-African trade with investments in agricultural biotechnological infrastructure in order to close the gap between the targets and the realities, in the efforts towards achieving the SDGs.

scholarly journals CONTROVERSIES AND TRANSITIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Mercator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2020) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Neli de Mello ThéryNeli de Mello Théry ◽  
Patrick Caron
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Development Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Development Goals

Science does not progress without controversy as well the societies. In this article, this approach is privileged, aiming to analyze whether they can hinder or speed up the agricultural and food, environmental and sanitary transitions necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It begins with an alert to the past development model and the limits of the planet, highlighting some themes and forms of action chosen by international institutions and / or scientist’s networks. Then, we selected some controversies and their arguments, related to environmental issues and the evolution of food systems. In the subsequent item, its actors and five sub controversies sought to highlight the difficulties for the transition to circular systems, considered as a vector of sustainability. It is concluded that controversies can block advances for transitions, being essential the design of methods, criteria and indicators for a better understanding of oppositions, as well as the need to include both themes and new approaches in research agendas.

Socially Responsible Value Creation in the Post-COVID-19 Era

2022 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Gönenç Dalgıç Turhan ◽  
Narin Bekki ◽  
Gulen Rady
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
New Era ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Corporate Social

The unfortunate economic environment emanated from the outbreak of the coronavirus has suddenly raised business organizations' concerns over the value creation. This new era forced them to focus on dynamic and digital capabilities to cope with the adverse changes. Following the stakeholder theory and the resource-based view, this chapter attempts to specify value creation of companies to preserve strategic position while satisfying the demands and interests of their stakeholders. In this sense, corporate social responsibility (CSR) seems a viable way of providing help and support to stakeholders during the fight against the pandemic as well as a catalyzer for the integration of sustainable development goals that can bridge the widened gap in the society. Hence, this chapter seeks to present an understanding on socially responsible value creation, dynamic and digital capabilities, and implementation of sustainability-driven CSR initiatives to ensure recovery, growth, and achieve sustainable development goals.

scholarly journals FOODSHARING AS A TOOL FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 331-334
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Chekanova ◽  
A. N. Ryakhovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Food Sharing ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Development Goals

The global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to look at development issues in a new way. As a result, many decision-makers have realized the importance of rebuilding economies with a sustainable development approach that involves investing not in fossil fuels but in renewable energies, reforestation, sustainable food systems, and cyclical, local and low-carbon economies. In this connection, the article considers food sharing as one of the possible mechanisms contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals and at the same time being an anti-crisis management tool. At the same time, this article gives directly the goals in the field of sustainable development, the state of affairs in the field of achieving the set goals in modern realities, the measures taken at the international level and in Russia, the essence of food sharing is also revealed, examples of foreign practices are given, problems that impede development are identified of food sharing in Russia, possible options for their solutions are proposed and promising results after its implementation are reflected, as well as a table with the effect of food sharing on specific goals of sustainable development has been compiled by the generalization method. This article can be useful to people interested in the rational use of food, businesses in order to restructure business processes to meet the requirements of the modern economy and government officials for timely and effective adoption of measures in the field of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Formation of labour resources reproduction conditions of a transnational industrial corporation in the concept of sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3D) ◽  
pp. 198-209
Author(s):  
Olga I. Klimenko ◽  
Roman N. Velikanskiy ◽  
Yulia V. Bezuglova ◽  
Irina U. Emirova ◽  
Ahmad I. Laipanov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
Un Global Compact ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
National Economies

The recovery of labour resources became a topicality of our study. The purpose of the study was the identification and justification the specific conditions for the reproduction of labour resources of a transnational industrial corporation. In the presented research was used the identification of typical problems characteristic of labour resources reproduction of the industrial sector of national economies, as well as the unification of the conditions for reproduction of labour resources, determined by international rules for socially responsible business. And the conditions for the reproduction of labour resources are presented such as: the formation of values of responsible leadership based on the principles of the UN Global Compact; commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals in supporting the reproduction of labour resources; development of interaction with stakeholders.

scholarly journals Microbiome Research: Open Communication Today, Microbiome Applications in the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1960
Author(s):  
Bettina Schelkle ◽  
Quentin Galland
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Microbiome Research ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Eu

Microbiome research has recently gained centre-stage in both basic science and translational applications, yet researchers often feel that public communication about its potential overpromises. This manuscript aims to share a perspective on how scientists can engage in more open, ethical and transparent communication using an ongoing research project on food systems microbiomes as a case study. Concrete examples of strategically planned communication efforts are outlined, which aim to inspire and empower other researchers. Finally, we conclude with a discussion on the benefits of open and transparent communication from early-on in innovation pathways, mainly increasing trust in scientific processes and thus paving the way to achieving societal milestones such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal.

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