Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach
A food system includes all elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food, and the outputs of these activities, including socioeconomic and environment...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
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| author | Ulimwengu, John M. Mbuthia, Juneweenex Omune, Lensa |
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| description | A food system includes all elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food, and the outputs of these activities, including socioeconomic and environmental outcomes (HLPE 2017). Thus, a food system links society and nature (Blesh and Wittman 2015). Resilience is “the ability of people, households, communities, countries and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth” (USAID 2018). Applied to food systems, resilience is defined by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) as the ability to withstand major shocks and stressors emanating from climate/weather, conflict, disease, external economic shocks, and other sources, which, if not prevented or mitigated, would delay, or limit economic progress, transformation, prosperity, and self-reliance (AGRA 2021). In this sense, resilience of a food system may be considered a system property that plays a critical role in its sustainability (Jacobi et al. 2018), thus ensuring sustained food security. This chapter adopts this definition with the objective of assessing the resilience of Kenya’s food system and its components using systemwide metrics. Specifically, we use a production approach based on input–output linkages.
This file also includes the introduction to Part Four. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1389412025-11-06T03:54:37Z Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach Ulimwengu, John M. Mbuthia, Juneweenex Omune, Lensa food systems resilience sustainability agricultural production A food system includes all elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food, and the outputs of these activities, including socioeconomic and environmental outcomes (HLPE 2017). Thus, a food system links society and nature (Blesh and Wittman 2015). Resilience is “the ability of people, households, communities, countries and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth” (USAID 2018). Applied to food systems, resilience is defined by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) as the ability to withstand major shocks and stressors emanating from climate/weather, conflict, disease, external economic shocks, and other sources, which, if not prevented or mitigated, would delay, or limit economic progress, transformation, prosperity, and self-reliance (AGRA 2021). In this sense, resilience of a food system may be considered a system property that plays a critical role in its sustainability (Jacobi et al. 2018), thus ensuring sustained food security. This chapter adopts this definition with the objective of assessing the resilience of Kenya’s food system and its components using systemwide metrics. Specifically, we use a production approach based on input–output linkages. This file also includes the introduction to Part Four. 2023-12-20 2024-02-05T20:07:57Z 2024-02-05T20:07:57Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138941 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ulimwengu, John M.; Mbuthia, Juneweenex; and Omune, Lensa. 2023. Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach. In Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future, eds. Clemens Breisinger, Michael Keenan, Juneweenex Mbuthia, and Jemimah Njuki. Part 4: Toward more resilient food systems, Chapter 10, Pp. 261-284. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561_10. |
| spellingShingle | food systems resilience sustainability agricultural production Ulimwengu, John M. Mbuthia, Juneweenex Omune, Lensa Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title | Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title_full | Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title_short | Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach |
| title_sort | assessing the resilience of kenya s food system a production approach |
| topic | food systems resilience sustainability agricultural production |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138941 |
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