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TY - JOUR
T1 - Food systems transition and disruptive low carbon innovation
T2 - implications for a food security research agenda.
AU - Tyfield, David
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - There is a growing consensus that we are facing epochal challenges in global food security. Moreover, these challenges are multiple and complex. Meeting these challenges will involve nothing less than a wholesale socio-technical transition of the agri-food system. Optimizing the efficacy of the contribution of research to such a food security agenda will probably also need new institutional mechanisms and career structures to facilitate new kinds of collaborations and ongoing, longer-term projects. In short, the multiple challenges of food security demand a different political economy of research for effective intervention by science. In making this argument, the paper summarizes the major findings of a recent report regarding the potential impact of so-called ‘disruptive’ low-carbon innovations in China.
AB - There is a growing consensus that we are facing epochal challenges in global food security. Moreover, these challenges are multiple and complex. Meeting these challenges will involve nothing less than a wholesale socio-technical transition of the agri-food system. Optimizing the efficacy of the contribution of research to such a food security agenda will probably also need new institutional mechanisms and career structures to facilitate new kinds of collaborations and ongoing, longer-term projects. In short, the multiple challenges of food security demand a different political economy of research for effective intervention by science. In making this argument, the paper summarizes the major findings of a recent report regarding the potential impact of so-called ‘disruptive’ low-carbon innovations in China.
KW - Agri-food system
KW - ecology
KW - food security
KW - low carbon innovation
U2 - 10.1093/jxb/err123
DO - 10.1093/jxb/err123
M3 - Journal article
VL - 62
SP - 3701
EP - 3706
JO - Journal of Experimental Botany
JF - Journal of Experimental Botany
SN - 1460-2431
IS - 11
ER -