Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective
The global goal to end hunger requires the interpretation of problems and change across multiple domains to create the scope for collaboration, learning, and impactful research. We facilitated a workshop aimed at understanding how stakeholders problematize sustainable diet transition (SDT) among a p...
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| author | Sobratee, N. Davids, R. Chinzila, C. B. Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Scheelbeek, P. Modi, Albert Thembinkosi Dangour, Alan D. Slotow, R. |
| author_browse | Chinzila, C. B. Dangour, Alan D. Davids, R. Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Modi, Albert Thembinkosi Scheelbeek, P. Slotow, R. Sobratee, N. |
| author_facet | Sobratee, N. Davids, R. Chinzila, C. B. Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Scheelbeek, P. Modi, Albert Thembinkosi Dangour, Alan D. Slotow, R. |
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| description | The global goal to end hunger requires the interpretation of problems and change across multiple domains to create the scope for collaboration, learning, and impactful research. We facilitated a workshop aimed at understanding how stakeholders problematize sustainable diet transition (SDT) among a previously marginalized social group. Using the systems thinking approach, three sub-systems, namely access to dietary diversity, sustainable beneficiation of natural capital, and ‘food choice for well-being’, highlighted the main forces governing the current context, and future interventions of the project. Moreover, when viewed as co-evolving processes within the multi-level perspective, our identified microlevel leverage points—multi-faceted literacy, youth empowerment, deliberative policymaking, and promotion of sustainable diet aspirations—can be linked and developed through existing national macro-level strategies. Thus, co-designing to problematize transformational SDT, centered on an interdisciplinary outlook and informational governance, could streamline research implementation outcomes to re-structure socio-technical sectors and reconnect people to nature-based solutions. Such legitimate aspirations could be relevant in countries bearing complex socio-political legacies and bridge the local–global goals coherently. This work provides a collaborative framework required to develop impact-driven activities needed to inform evidence-based policies on sustainable diets. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1191972025-12-08T10:29:22Z Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective Sobratee, N. Davids, R. Chinzila, C. B. Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Scheelbeek, P. Modi, Albert Thembinkosi Dangour, Alan D. Slotow, R. healthy diets agrifood systems sustainable development goals communities marginalization policies stakeholders smallholders farmers socioeconomic aspects strategies The global goal to end hunger requires the interpretation of problems and change across multiple domains to create the scope for collaboration, learning, and impactful research. We facilitated a workshop aimed at understanding how stakeholders problematize sustainable diet transition (SDT) among a previously marginalized social group. Using the systems thinking approach, three sub-systems, namely access to dietary diversity, sustainable beneficiation of natural capital, and ‘food choice for well-being’, highlighted the main forces governing the current context, and future interventions of the project. Moreover, when viewed as co-evolving processes within the multi-level perspective, our identified microlevel leverage points—multi-faceted literacy, youth empowerment, deliberative policymaking, and promotion of sustainable diet aspirations—can be linked and developed through existing national macro-level strategies. Thus, co-designing to problematize transformational SDT, centered on an interdisciplinary outlook and informational governance, could streamline research implementation outcomes to re-structure socio-technical sectors and reconnect people to nature-based solutions. Such legitimate aspirations could be relevant in countries bearing complex socio-political legacies and bridge the local–global goals coherently. This work provides a collaborative framework required to develop impact-driven activities needed to inform evidence-based policies on sustainable diets. 2022-03-10 2022-03-31T11:07:20Z 2022-03-31T11:07:20Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119197 en Open Access MDPI Sobratee, N.; Davids, R.; Chinzila, C. B.; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe; Scheelbeek, P.; Modi, A. T.; Dangour, A. D.; Slotow, R. 2022. Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective. Sustainability, 14(6):3280. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063280] |
| spellingShingle | healthy diets agrifood systems sustainable development goals communities marginalization policies stakeholders smallholders farmers socioeconomic aspects strategies Sobratee, N. Davids, R. Chinzila, C. B. Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Scheelbeek, P. Modi, Albert Thembinkosi Dangour, Alan D. Slotow, R. Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title | Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title_full | Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title_fullStr | Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title_short | Visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets—a South African perspective |
| title_sort | visioning a food system for an equitable transition towards sustainable diets a south african perspective |
| topic | healthy diets agrifood systems sustainable development goals communities marginalization policies stakeholders smallholders farmers socioeconomic aspects strategies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119197 |
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