Conclusions : Promises and Challenges for Sustainable Agri-food Systems
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_12" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_12</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conclusions : Promises and Challenges for Sustainable Agri-food Systems
Original language description
This chapter summarizes the main sustainability challenges (in terms of science and policy) of the current dominant agri-food system and presents insights derived from the cases in the volume. We return to the two main questions asked in the introductory chapter of the book. How useful is the socio-metabolic approach in studying the sustainability of local food systems (LFS)? To this, we identify three main methodological contributions: 1. That classic indicators (of material and energy flows) derived from the sociometabolic approach offers greater insights as well as lend power and rigour when combined with social, ecological, political and other dimensions; 2. Multi-dimensional and multi-scalar analyses can contribute not only to sustainability assessment of a particular LFS but also to broader theoretical and conceptual debates regarding sustainability and potential localisation of LFS; 3. Socio-metabolic studies on the local level provide detailed understanding of the particular LFS while revealing potential leverage points for intervention for improved system performance with respect to sustainability. Besides methodological insights, the chapter derives key lessons from the cases in the book, in particular the promising characteristics of both the historical and current local food system. We identify the following points as important: 1. A close proximity between the producers and consumers holds a very strong potential for systemic change of the current dominant agri-food system, but also the other way round, the growing distance obscures the sustainability challenges; 2. LFS proves better in closing nutrient cycles on local and regional levels. This issue is also related to the importance of the multifunctionality of land use, and livestock use, in both the historical and the current LFS. [...]
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-38994P" target="_blank" >GP13-38994P: Quest for sustainable food production: Social and financial metabolism of selected local food systems</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems
ISBN
9783319692357
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
345-356
Number of pages of the book
364
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
000447147300013