Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?

Transforming global food systems to promote food and nutritional security can help alleviate both poverty and ill-health, and support sustainable development. Such transformations need to be tailored and sensitive to the vulnerabilities and needs of marginalized communities yet are hindered by knowl...

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Autores principales: Karan, Romyne, Mowlds, Sinead, McKeown, Peter C., Lundy, Mark M., Spillane, Charles
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Frontiers Media 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132112
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author Karan, Romyne
Mowlds, Sinead
McKeown, Peter C.
Lundy, Mark M.
Spillane, Charles
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McKeown, Peter C.
Mowlds, Sinead
Spillane, Charles
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Lundy, Mark M.
Spillane, Charles
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description Transforming global food systems to promote food and nutritional security can help alleviate both poverty and ill-health, and support sustainable development. Such transformations need to be tailored and sensitive to the vulnerabilities and needs of marginalized communities yet are hindered by knowledge gaps. In particular, the food and nutrition security needs of the most vulnerable are often poorly understood, as are the policy frameworks and resource requirements associated with meeting their needs. To aid the development of frameworks to address these gaps, we review the current state of indicators relating to food systems for the improvement of food and nutrition security at the national and sub-national levels in South Africa. We identify gaps in the decision-making data in South Africa, including absence of food and nutrition security indicators. Integration of the South African Multidimensional Poverty Index and Food System Dashboard indicators could help address this, especially if applied at a sub-national level. Participatory food system mapping could also link data collection with system-level interactions and feedback loops to inform sub-national stakeholders in achieving food and nutritional security.
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spelling CGSpace1321122025-12-08T10:29:22Z Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed? Karan, Romyne Mowlds, Sinead McKeown, Peter C. Lundy, Mark M. Spillane, Charles food systems transformation nutrition indicators decision support-decision aid decision support systems-decision support tools Transforming global food systems to promote food and nutritional security can help alleviate both poverty and ill-health, and support sustainable development. Such transformations need to be tailored and sensitive to the vulnerabilities and needs of marginalized communities yet are hindered by knowledge gaps. In particular, the food and nutrition security needs of the most vulnerable are often poorly understood, as are the policy frameworks and resource requirements associated with meeting their needs. To aid the development of frameworks to address these gaps, we review the current state of indicators relating to food systems for the improvement of food and nutrition security at the national and sub-national levels in South Africa. We identify gaps in the decision-making data in South Africa, including absence of food and nutrition security indicators. Integration of the South African Multidimensional Poverty Index and Food System Dashboard indicators could help address this, especially if applied at a sub-national level. Participatory food system mapping could also link data collection with system-level interactions and feedback loops to inform sub-national stakeholders in achieving food and nutritional security. 2023-09-29 2023-10-04T09:31:15Z 2023-10-04T09:31:15Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132112 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Karan, R.; Mowlds, S.; McKeown, P.C.; Lundy, M.; Spillane, C. (2023) Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7:1243466. ISSN: 2571-581X
spellingShingle food systems
transformation
nutrition
indicators
decision support-decision aid
decision support systems-decision support tools
Karan, Romyne
Mowlds, Sinead
McKeown, Peter C.
Lundy, Mark M.
Spillane, Charles
Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title_full Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title_fullStr Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title_full_unstemmed Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title_short Data for decision-making for sustainable food systems transformation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: what is needed?
title_sort data for decision making for sustainable food systems transformation in the eastern cape of south africa what is needed
topic food systems
transformation
nutrition
indicators
decision support-decision aid
decision support systems-decision support tools
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132112
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