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Seminar: Polly Ericksen on food systems for resilience
1. Will managing food systems for
resilience make us more food
secure?
Polly Ericksen
Global Food Security and Environmental Change (GECAFS)
Environmental Change Institute,
Oxford University
2. Fundamental Questions
• How will Global Environmental Change affect
the vulnerability of food systems in different
regions?
• How might food systems be adapted to cope
with GEC so as to enhance food security?
• What would be the consequences of
adaptation options for environmental and
socioeconomic conditions?
3. GECAFS Goal
To determine strategies to cope with the
impacts of GEC on food systems and to
assess the environmental and
socioeconomic consequences of
adaptive responses aimed at improving
food security.
4. Food security…
... exists when all people, at all times, have physical
and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious
food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences
for an active and healthy life.
(World Food Summit 1996)
5. Components of Food Security
& Key Elements
FOOD FOOD
UTILISATION ACCESS
• Nutritional Value • Affordability
• Social Value • Allocation
• Food Safety • Preference
FOOD
AVAILABILITY
• Production
• Distribution
• Exchange
6. Multiple Exposure: Food insecurity arises
from overlapping and interacting stressors
7
12
Misselhorn 2005 Global Environmental Change
7. Food systems -- evolving
Food system feature “traditional” food systems “modern” food systems
Principal employment in In food production In food processing, packaging
food sector and retail
Supply chain Short, local Long with many food miles
and nodes
Typical food consumed Basic staples Processed food with a brand
name; more animal
products
Purchased food bought from Small, local shop or market Large supermarket chain
Nutritional concern Under-nutrition Chronic dietary diseases
Main source of national food Poor rains; production shocks International price and trade
shocks problems
Main source of household Poor rains; production shocks Income shocks leading to food
food shocks poverty
Major environmental Soil degradation, land clearing Nutrient loading, chemical
concerns runoff, water demand, GHG
emissions
Adapted from Maxwell and Slater (2003)
8. Food systems framework
Food System ACTIVITIES
Producing food: natural resources, inputs, technology, …
Processing & packaging food: raw materials, standards, consumer demand, …
Distributing & retailing food: marketing, advertising, trade, …
Consuming food: acquisition, preparation, customs, …
Food System OUTCOMES Contributing to:
Social Welfare Food Security Environmental
• Income Security /
• Employment FOOD FOOD
Natural Capital
• Wealth UTILISATION ACCESS • Ecosystems
• Social & political stocks, flows
• Nutritional Value • Affordability
capital • Social Value • Ecosystem
• Allocation
• Human capital • Food Safety • Preference services
• Access to
FOOD
natural capital
AVAILABILITY
• Production
• Distribution
• Exchange
9. Analysing FS in context of
drivers and feedbacks
Environmental feedbacks
e.g. water quality, GHGs
GEC DRIVERS Food System ACTIVITIES
‘Natural’ Producing
Changes in:
DRIVERS Processing & Packaging
Land cover & soils, Atmospheric
e.g. Volcanoes Distributing & Retailing
Comp., Climate variability & means,
Solar cycles Consuming
Water availability & quality,
Nutrient availability & cycling,
Biodiversity, Sea currents
& salinity, Sea level Food System OUTCOMES
DRIVERS’ Contributing to: Food Security, Environmental
Security, and other Societal Interests
Interactions
Socioeconomic
Food Food
DRIVERS
Changes in: Utilisation Availability
Demographics, Economics,
Socio-political context,
Cultural context Social Food Environ
Science & Technology Welfare Access Capital
Socioeconomic feedbacks
e.g. livelihoods, social cohesion
Source: Ericksen, P. (2007) Global Environmental Change
10. Using the framework
Elements of Characteristics of Major Origin of
ACCESS to food food security determinants determinants
element
Affordability Staple grains are Costs of local Food system
cheap if imported; production higher activity: Producing.
expensive if local. than external. Social welfare:
Income determines income.
purchased quantity.
Allocation Most food only Supermarket chains Food system
available in dominate in urban activity: Retailing.
supermarkets. areas; local markets
have been driven
out of business.
Preference Fish and rice are Cultural Social welfare:
traditional foods. preferences; agro- Social Capital.
ecosystem Ecosystem services.
characteristics.
11. Vulnerability of food systems
depends upon adaptive capacity
Example: Nutritional diversity (milk) in the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Milk production is sensitive to drought (it decreases)
Food security outcome
Weak adaptive capacity
• weak markets HIGH vulnerability
Rural areas: • poor infrastructure • access to milk decreases
• low income • nutritional value decreases
• poor storage or processing
Strong adaptive capacity
• robust markets LOW vulnerability
Urban areas: • sufficient infrastructure • access to milk maintained
• higher income • nutritional value maintained
• good storage and processing
Source: Multi-authored analysis of IGP food system vulnerability to GEC. GECAFS Report. In prep.
12. Definition of resilience
• Resilience is the ability to persist through
continuous development in face of
change, and innovate and transform into
more desirable configurations. Folke 2006
– Amount of change a system can undergo w/o
altering function
– Capacity for self-organization
– Capacity to learn and adapt Carpenter et al 2001
13. Resilience approach…
• Coupled social and ecological system
• Focus on structure and function of system
and key processes/ dynamics, especially
feedbacks
• Scale is critical!!
– Resilience at one scale embedded in higher
and lower
• Change is the norm, and often so is
surprise
14. Food system functions
Food System ACTIVITIES
Producing food: natural resources, inputs, technology, …
Processing & packaging food: raw materials, standards, consumer demand, …
Distributing & retailing food: marketing, advertising, trade, …
Consuming food: acquisition, preparation, customs, …
Food System OUTCOMES Contributing to:
Social Welfare Food Security Environmental
• Income Security /
• Employment FOOD FOOD
Natural Capital
• Wealth UTILISATION ACCESS • Ecosystems
• Social & political stocks, flows
• Nutritional Value • Affordability
capital • Social Value • Ecosystem
• Allocation
• Human capital • Food Safety • Preference services
• Access to
FOOD
natural capital
AVAILABILITY
• Production
• Distribution
• Exchange
15. Food systems and scale
International food system (subsidies, standards)
National food system (prices, supply)
District food system
Community food system (demand,
markets)
16. Cross-scale tradeoffs in global
food system
• Wealthy food security at cost of poorer
(McMichael 2006)
• Food miles or fair miles? (McGregor and Vorley 2006)
– Where are the real ecological costs?
– Global environmental goods versus poverty
• Water for agriculture or water for
ecosystems or water for cities?
• Social protection or economic growth?
Food security?
17. Resilience… (2)
• Adaptive capacity arises from diversity
– Among assets and strategies, and at multiple
levels
• Adaptive management requires monitoring
and learning by institutions
– Governance and capacity are required
• Disturbance provides opportunities for
innovation and renewal
18. Pastoralist food
insecurity in Northern Kenya
• Droughts increasingly trigger food insecurity
• Adaptive capacity of local pastoralists slowly
eroded
– Climatic as well as social and political
• Conflicts, sedentarisation, marginalisation
• Little economic support
• Early warning system limited by poor
information, institutional weakness and lack
of donor trust
• Difficult to change current state
19. European food insecurity (?)
• Foot and mouth disease – local and regional
– Farmers bear brunt
• Dairy and wheat price shocks – global coincides
with regional and local
– Consumers pay costs
• Unsustainable consumption levels
(interdependence)
• Unhealthy or unsafe food
• Easier to ignore feedbacks .. My food system
seems resilient to me as I am food secure
20. Managing for resilience
(Lebel et al 2006, Ecology and Society)
• Managing involves both building and
eroding resilience, depending upon the
desirability of the state; may need
transformations
• For WHOM is resilience?
• Governance issues, politics and power
– Accountability, polycentric institutions,
participation
21. Transforming food systems
• Concern w/ signs of vulnerability
– E.g. inequities; disease outbreaks; food price
shocks; shrinking diversity
• Competing objectives and perspectives
among global and local actors (profits,
availability vs sovereignty, trade and
subsidy regimes….)
22. Transforming for resilience
(Olsson et al 2006 Ecology and Society)
• Requires preparation and transition
phases; linked by a window of opportunity
• Preparation: knowledge, networks and
leadership
• Navigating the transition requires flexibility
and cross-scale interactions
• stress adaptive governance and role of
disturbance as opportunity
23. Northern Kenyan pastoralists
• Governance authority at national level;
some decentralization to local level; but
international donors still important
• Accountability difficult
• Participation is largely top down
• Outside subsidies necessary to re-
generate
• Transforming the system could mean
livelihoods and identities change
24. European consumers
• Food systems governed by business and
national government
– Building a polycentric structure requires
multiple actors
• Local movements for transformation
growing
• Self-organizing capacity unclear because of
interdependence
• Participation unequal due to wealth,
location, etc.
25. Resilience in food systems:
challenges
• Resilient state not necessarily desirable
– Who gets to decide what is desirable?
e.g. pastoralists or government?
-- does it require “agreement” across objectives?
• Cannot assume social and ecological
resilience move in the same direction
– E.g. food production increases while diversity
decreases (MA 2006)
– Savanna biomass increase but not pastoralist
food security (Galvin et al 2004)
26. Tradeoffs are inevitable
Local
production Food prices Local
(affordability) production Food prices
(availability)
(availability) (affordability)
Income from
Social value food Income from
(utilization) production food production
(social welfare) (social welfare)
Social value
(utilization)
GHG emissions food GHG emissions GHG emissions
transport (natural agriculture (natural GHG emissions
food transport agriculture (natural
capital) capital) capital)
(natural capital)
With support for local production Without support for local production
Ericksen 2007 (in review)
27. Food system outcomes - tradeoffs
Production
Increase
++
Food Safety Distribution
+
0
Decrease
_
Social Value Inter-Regional
__
Exchange
Nutritional Intra-Caribbean
Value Exchange
Preference Affordability
Allocation
Source: GECAFS (2006) Prototype Scenarios for the Caribbean. GECAFS Rpt 2.
28. Resilience in food systems:
challenges (2)
• Managing at the appropriate scale
– Trust and accountability at local level?
– How to link across scales, esp. w/ tradeoffs?
• Managing for disturbance
– Conflict with the current paradigms?
• Long planning horizons; emphasis on stability, MSY
– Little flexibility in corporate systems
29. Challenges re adaptive
governance
• Who governs food systems?
• Who decides what to transform?
• Who should self-organize?
– Can any food system function w/o subsidies
from outside?
• Can we achieve polycentric institutions?
• Can everyone participate?
30. Resilience in food systems:
challenges (3)
• Is globalisation a help or a threat to
adaptive capacity (Eakin and Lemos 2006)?
• Social dynamics replacing biophysical in
globalised systems (Young et al 2006)
– Connectedness increased but maybe random
– Speed of connections increased
– Scale stretched so slow and fast variables
changing
– Diversity decreased
31. Two examples from globalised
food systems
• Maize price shocks in Mexico
– NAFTA impact on domestic production
– Biofuels feedback from US
– Local protests awareness, ????
• Brazil deforestation (Nepstad et al 2006)
– BSE in Europe and China demand increase
soy production
– International attention offers conservation
opportunity
32. Food system vulnerability
Food system structural Potential links to vulnerability in the
characteristic food system
Low diversity in assets or Consumers have few options;
entitlements production susceptible to disturbance;
diversity of assets critical to resilience.
Institutional weaknesses Institutional capacity critical to
and low institutional management for social and
capacity environmental outcomes.
Lack of functioning Markets help demand meet supply; low
markets and low levels of levels of economic activity constrain
economic activity access to food.
33. Food system resilience
Food system Scale Resilience
function features
Affordable food National Buffered against
price shocks
Nutritious food Local Unprocessed, safe,
trusted sources
Agro-diversity Landscape Land use planning
enforced
Agricultural Local Buffered against
income commodity price
shocks
34. Sources of adaptive capacity
in food systems
• Social movements?
– Local and global
• Experience with disturbance and crisis?
– Opportunities for renewal and innovation
• Alternative agriculture for ecological
lessons?
• Learning opportunities?
35. Concluding thoughts
• Resilience approach suitable for the
complexity and heterogeneity of food
systems
• Cross-level and scale interactions must be
highlighted and analyzed
• Adaptive management is challenging
• Ecosystem feedbacks as social dynamics
substitute?
• Contested and competing outcomes?
• Managing for disturbance?
36. www.gecafs.org
With thanks to John Ingram, Hallie Eakin, Emily Boyd, Henny Osbahr,
Monika Zurek, and others for stimulating dialogue and ideas….
37. International Conference
2-4 April 2008, Oxford University, UK
Food Security and Environmental Change
Linking science, development
and policy for adaptation
Purpose:
To engage the research and policy communities
addressing food security, environmental change
and food policy interested in jointly developing
adaptation options.
Themes:
• Concepts and methods
• Regional research
• Links to the development agenda and policy
• Emerging issues and frameworks for adaptation