Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe

Food system resilience has become a key objective of the food and nutrition security agenda. Within the three-pronged framework consisting of policy systems, institutional systems, and human capacity, it is important to study the impact of good governance on food system resilience as an institutiona...

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Autores principales: Tinarwo, Joseph, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Iyappan, Karunya
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147241
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author Tinarwo, Joseph
Babu, Suresh Chandra
Iyappan, Karunya
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description Food system resilience has become a key objective of the food and nutrition security agenda. Within the three-pronged framework consisting of policy systems, institutional systems, and human capacity, it is important to study the impact of good governance on food system resilience as an institutional resilience-building strategy. Improving food system governance remains a major component of any national strategy for achieving food and nutrition security in developing countries. Yet the relationship between good governance and resilience building remains unexplored. In addition, conventional governance arrangements do not seem to yield the much-anticipated results of achieving food and nutrition security. Therefore, in addition to exploring how governance may aid in building resilience, there is a need to investigate new ways of taking resolute actions that enhance growth and structural transformation in food systems. The multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) strategy is often proffered as a better governance approach. MSPs aim to enhance shared understanding of food systems and strive to build consensus through dialogue, consultation, and joint analysis. Consequently, the multisectoral nature of MSPs enables them to incorporate extremely important components of food system resilience. MSPs’ inherent decentralized design encourages decentralization of mobilization for community efforts. In this way, the effectiveness and efficiency of such MSP structures may have long-lasting impacts on improving food system resilience within institutional systems, especially at the local level. Therefore, in short, this paper analyzes how to improve food system resilience through better governance using MSPs for food and nutrition security outcomes. Specifically, we draw lessons from the response of MSPs to the food crisis in Zimbabwe that emerged from the El Niño of 2015–2016.
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spelling CGSpace1472412025-11-06T06:55:39Z Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe Tinarwo, Joseph Babu, Suresh Chandra Iyappan, Karunya nutrition security agroindustrial sector capacity development multi-stakeholder processes decentralization food security resilience food systems governance Food system resilience has become a key objective of the food and nutrition security agenda. Within the three-pronged framework consisting of policy systems, institutional systems, and human capacity, it is important to study the impact of good governance on food system resilience as an institutional resilience-building strategy. Improving food system governance remains a major component of any national strategy for achieving food and nutrition security in developing countries. Yet the relationship between good governance and resilience building remains unexplored. In addition, conventional governance arrangements do not seem to yield the much-anticipated results of achieving food and nutrition security. Therefore, in addition to exploring how governance may aid in building resilience, there is a need to investigate new ways of taking resolute actions that enhance growth and structural transformation in food systems. The multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) strategy is often proffered as a better governance approach. MSPs aim to enhance shared understanding of food systems and strive to build consensus through dialogue, consultation, and joint analysis. Consequently, the multisectoral nature of MSPs enables them to incorporate extremely important components of food system resilience. MSPs’ inherent decentralized design encourages decentralization of mobilization for community efforts. In this way, the effectiveness and efficiency of such MSP structures may have long-lasting impacts on improving food system resilience within institutional systems, especially at the local level. Therefore, in short, this paper analyzes how to improve food system resilience through better governance using MSPs for food and nutrition security outcomes. Specifically, we draw lessons from the response of MSPs to the food crisis in Zimbabwe that emerged from the El Niño of 2015–2016. 2018-06-22 2024-06-21T09:12:33Z 2024-06-21T09:12:33Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147241 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101504 https://doi.org/10.2499/1037800848 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83068 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296787 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149554 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298606 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Tinarwo, Joseph; Babu, Suresh Chandra; and Iyappan, Karunya. 2018. Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1734. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147241
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agroindustrial sector
capacity development
multi-stakeholder processes
decentralization
food security
resilience
food systems
governance
Tinarwo, Joseph
Babu, Suresh Chandra
Iyappan, Karunya
Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title_full Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title_short Improving food system resilience through better governance: Lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in Zimbabwe
title_sort improving food system resilience through better governance lessons from multistakeholder partnerships in zimbabwe
topic nutrition security
agroindustrial sector
capacity development
multi-stakeholder processes
decentralization
food security
resilience
food systems
governance
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147241
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