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Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security

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posted on 2023-05-21, 12:17 authored by Nicholson, CF, Kopainsky, B, Stephens, EC, David ParsonsDavid Parsons, Jones, AD, Garrett, J, Phillips, EL
Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit wide diversity in perspectives, assumptions and application. This Review Article examines this diversity, providing an approach to assess frameworks and suggesting improvements in the way they are specified and applied. Using criteria-based systems modelling conventions, we evaluate 36 frameworks. We find that many frameworks are developed for the purpose of illustration rather than analysis and do not clearly indicate causal relationships, tending to ignore the dynamic (stability) dimensions of agriculture and food security and lacking clear intervention points for improving food security through agriculture. By applying system modelling conventions to a widely used framework, we illustrate how such conventions can enhance the usefulness of a framework for overall illustration purposes, delineate hypotheses on agricultur food security links and examine potential impacts of interventions.

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Publication title

Nature Food

Issue

9

Pagination

541-551

ISSN

2662-1355

Department/School

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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© Springer Nature Limited 2020.

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Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences

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