Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities
The future wellbeing of billions of rural people is interconnected with transforming food systems for equity, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and resilience. This article tackles three blind spots in the understanding of rural poverty and vulnerability: the narrow focus on extreme poverty a...
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| author | Woodhill, Jim Kishore, Avinash Njuki, Jemimah Jones, Kristal Hasnain, Saher |
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| description | The future wellbeing of billions of rural people is interconnected with transforming food systems for equity, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and resilience. This article tackles three blind spots in the understanding of rural poverty and vulnerability: the narrow focus on extreme poverty and hunger that hides a much wider set of inequalities and vulnerabilities, insufficient recognition of the diversity of rural households, and an inadequate appreciation of the impact of rapid structural changes in markets, the physical environment, and the political economic context. A better understanding of these areas is necessary for imagining a new policy landscape that can align progress on rural poverty alleviation with a wider transformation of food systems. The article provides a framework for assessing the dynamics of rural wellbeing and food systems change. It looks at the viability of small-scale farming and the diversification of livelihood options needed to overcome rural poverty and inequality. The analysis suggests that the future prosperity of rural areas will depend on policy reforms to address market failures in the food system, which currently work against equity, good nutrition and sustainability. Investments will also be needed to enable rural economies to capture greater value from the food system, particularly in the midstream of food distribution, processing and services. The likely future scale and nature of rural poverty and inequality is such that improved social protection and humanitarian relief schemes that support those in crisis or being left behind will still be essential. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1551422024-11-15T08:52:28Z Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities Woodhill, Jim Kishore, Avinash Njuki, Jemimah Jones, Kristal Hasnain, Saher food systems rural areas poverty rural poverty small-scale farming livelihoods rural welfare The future wellbeing of billions of rural people is interconnected with transforming food systems for equity, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and resilience. This article tackles three blind spots in the understanding of rural poverty and vulnerability: the narrow focus on extreme poverty and hunger that hides a much wider set of inequalities and vulnerabilities, insufficient recognition of the diversity of rural households, and an inadequate appreciation of the impact of rapid structural changes in markets, the physical environment, and the political economic context. A better understanding of these areas is necessary for imagining a new policy landscape that can align progress on rural poverty alleviation with a wider transformation of food systems. The article provides a framework for assessing the dynamics of rural wellbeing and food systems change. It looks at the viability of small-scale farming and the diversification of livelihood options needed to overcome rural poverty and inequality. The analysis suggests that the future prosperity of rural areas will depend on policy reforms to address market failures in the food system, which currently work against equity, good nutrition and sustainability. Investments will also be needed to enable rural economies to capture greater value from the food system, particularly in the midstream of food distribution, processing and services. The likely future scale and nature of rural poverty and inequality is such that improved social protection and humanitarian relief schemes that support those in crisis or being left behind will still be essential. 2022-10 2024-10-03T15:45:28Z 2024-10-03T15:45:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155142 en Open Access Springer Woodhill, Jim; Kishore, Avinash; Njuki, Jemimah; Jones, Kristal; and Hasnain, Saher. 2022. Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities. Food Security 14: 1099-1121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-021-01217-0 |
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| title | Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities |
| title_full | Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities |
| title_short | Food systems and rural wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities |
| title_sort | food systems and rural wellbeing challenges and opportunities |
| topic | food systems rural areas poverty rural poverty small-scale farming livelihoods rural welfare |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155142 |
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