Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis
Faced with the growing climate crisis, there are calls for transformative adaptation, a climate response that address the root causes of vulnerability and requires radical change in food systems. Transformation of food systems is, hence, essential to deal with the ongoing climate crisis and to fulfi...
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| author | Challinor, Andrew Juan Hellin, Jon Meadu, Vanessa Spillane, Charles McKeown, Peter C. Whitfield, Stephen Taylor, Steve Grey, Carmody T. Veeger, Marieke Rutting, Lucas |
| author_browse | Challinor, Andrew Juan Grey, Carmody T. Hellin, Jon McKeown, Peter C. Meadu, Vanessa Rutting, Lucas Spillane, Charles Taylor, Steve Veeger, Marieke Whitfield, Stephen |
| author_facet | Challinor, Andrew Juan Hellin, Jon Meadu, Vanessa Spillane, Charles McKeown, Peter C. Whitfield, Stephen Taylor, Steve Grey, Carmody T. Veeger, Marieke Rutting, Lucas |
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| description | Faced with the growing climate crisis, there are calls for transformative adaptation, a climate response that address the root causes of vulnerability and requires radical change in food systems. Transformation of food systems is, hence, essential to deal with the ongoing climate crisis and to fulfil wider sustainability and development challenges from local to global scales. Transformed food systems must minimise vulnerability to shocks while delivering environmental, social, and economic benefits. This need can only be met by embracing food systems transformation as a process of social and individual change that contributes to transformative adaptation. The scale of this societal and environmental challenge demands an equally grand vision – one that integrates climate, sustainability and systems thinking with human psychology, beliefs and values, and shared understandings. Such a vision, with community and individual transformation at its core, has the potential to deliver multiple benefits to society through transformative food systems change, livelihood resilience and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Fostering conditions that support both individual transformation and the development of collective understandings, therefore, needs to be a core part of any strategies to transform food systems. In this opinion piece we provide a framework to guide this transformative drive towards societal climate resilience. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1783072025-12-08T10:06:44Z Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis Challinor, Andrew Juan Hellin, Jon Meadu, Vanessa Spillane, Charles McKeown, Peter C. Whitfield, Stephen Taylor, Steve Grey, Carmody T. Veeger, Marieke Rutting, Lucas climate change food security transformation food systems adaptability society Faced with the growing climate crisis, there are calls for transformative adaptation, a climate response that address the root causes of vulnerability and requires radical change in food systems. Transformation of food systems is, hence, essential to deal with the ongoing climate crisis and to fulfil wider sustainability and development challenges from local to global scales. Transformed food systems must minimise vulnerability to shocks while delivering environmental, social, and economic benefits. This need can only be met by embracing food systems transformation as a process of social and individual change that contributes to transformative adaptation. The scale of this societal and environmental challenge demands an equally grand vision – one that integrates climate, sustainability and systems thinking with human psychology, beliefs and values, and shared understandings. Such a vision, with community and individual transformation at its core, has the potential to deliver multiple benefits to society through transformative food systems change, livelihood resilience and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Fostering conditions that support both individual transformation and the development of collective understandings, therefore, needs to be a core part of any strategies to transform food systems. In this opinion piece we provide a framework to guide this transformative drive towards societal climate resilience. 2025-10-09 2025-11-27T00:51:07Z 2025-11-27T00:51:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178307 en Open Access application/pdf Inter-Research Challinor, Andrew Juan, Jon Hellin, Vanessa Meadu, Charles Spillane, Peter C. McKeown, Stephen Whitfield, Steve Taylor, Carmody T. Grey, Marieke Veeger, and Lucas Rutting. "Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis." Climate Research 95 (2025): 19-26. |
| spellingShingle | climate change food security transformation food systems adaptability society Challinor, Andrew Juan Hellin, Jon Meadu, Vanessa Spillane, Charles McKeown, Peter C. Whitfield, Stephen Taylor, Steve Grey, Carmody T. Veeger, Marieke Rutting, Lucas Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title | Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title_full | Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title_fullStr | Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title_short | Human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| title_sort | human and societal transformations are critical for food system responses to the climate crisis |
| topic | climate change food security transformation food systems adaptability society |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178307 |
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