Food Security and Food Sovereignty: A Review of Commonly Used Indicators and Consideration of Environmental Sustainability Aspects
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identifier citation: Sustainability 16 (24): 11034 (2024)
contributor: Food Systems PRISM Lab. Okanagan Campus
contributor: University of British Columbia. Charles Fipke Centre for Innovative Research
creator: Cadavid, Luis
creator: Arulnathan, Vivek
creator: Pelletier, Nathan
issued: 2025-01-10T16:04:21Z
issued: 2024-12-16
description: Agriculture and food systems are central to human well-being. As a result, food production and consumption are at the heart of every discourse on sustainable development, both from an environmental and a socio-economic perspective. The concepts of food security and food sovereignty, both significant within the discourse on sustainable food systems, have seen increased interest over recent decades. Despite the importance and relevance of these concepts to one another within the agri-food systems discourse, they are rarely discussed in concert. This literature review explores the definitions, synergies, and potential trade-offs between food security, food sovereignty, and environmental sustainability objectives, as assessed using Life Cycle Assessment—today’s pre-eminent tool for environmental impact measurement and management of products and services. Food cost, adequate caloric/nutrient intake, and access to food were identified as the most used food security indicators, and resource availability, food consumption, and characterization of food production were observed to be the most common food sovereignty indicators. Simultaneous consideration of both food security and environmental sustainability was surprisingly rare in the reviewed literature and was mostly limited to no more than mentions of the terms “environment” or “sustainability”. Joint consideration of these aspects might enable understanding of potential tensions as well as a means to identify strategies that best satisfy what may be viewed as competing objectives.
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note: Citation: Cadavid, L.; Arulnathan, V.;Pelletier, N. Food Security and FoodSovereignty: A Review of CommonlyUsed Indicators and Consideration ofEnvironmental Sustainability Aspects.Sustainability 2024, 16, 11034. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162411034Academic Editor: Ðurd¯ica AcˇkarReceived: 24 September 2024Revised: 12 December 2024Accepted: 13 December 2024Published: 16 December 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ReviewFood Security and Food Sovereignty: A Review of CommonlyUsed Indicators and Consideration of EnvironmentalSustainability AspectsLuis Cadavid, Vivek Arulnathan * and Nathan PelletierFood Systems PRISM Lab, Fipke Centre for Innovative Research, University of British Columbia, 3247 UniversityWay, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada; nathan.pelletier@ubc.ca (N.P.)* Correspondence: vivek.arulnathan@ubc.caAbstract: Agriculture and food systems are central to human well-being. As a result, food productionand consumption are at the heart of every discourse on sustainable development, both from anenvironmental and a socio-economic perspective. The concepts of food security and food sovereignty,both significant within the discourse on sustainable food systems, have seen increased interest overrecent decades. Despite the importance and relevance of these concepts to one another within theagri-food systems discourse, they are rarely discussed in concert. This literature review exploresthe definitions, synergies, and potential trade-offs between food security, food sovereignty, andenvironmental sustainability objectives, as assessed using Life Cycle Assessment—today’s pre-eminent tool for environmental impact measurement and management of products and services.Food cost, adequate caloric/nutrient intake, and access to food were identified as the most usedfood secu…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0447723
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/su162411034
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: food security
subject: food sovereignty
subject: LCA
subject: life cycle assessment
subject: indicators
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90094