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Understanding Sustainable Development

The document discusses sustainable development, emphasizing its three dimensions: economy, environment, and society, along with resilience as a meta-dimension. It defines sustainable food systems as those that ensure food security without compromising future generations' ability to produce food, while also addressing planetary boundaries. Additionally, it contrasts traditional, modern, and alternative food systems, highlighting their characteristics and the drivers of change within these systems.

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Understanding Sustainable Development

The document discusses sustainable development, emphasizing its three dimensions: economy, environment, and society, along with resilience as a meta-dimension. It defines sustainable food systems as those that ensure food security without compromising future generations' ability to produce food, while also addressing planetary boundaries. Additionally, it contrasts traditional, modern, and alternative food systems, highlighting their characteristics and the drivers of change within these systems.

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 What is sustainable development?

o Videos –

 Different Perspectives on Sustainability

 Why do we need to change the food system

 Dimensions -Three

o Economy (Profit)

o Environment (planet)

o Society (People)

 Resilience is called as a meta-dimension


 Principles of sustainable development

o Ecological principles

o Social/ethical principles

o Political principles

o Addressing the root causes

 End of pipe is not sustainable

 Planetary boundaries:

 Current Carbon dioxide concentration is 430 ppm


o The planetary boundary for CO2 is 350 ppm
 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
 [Link]

 System’s definition
A system is an interconnected set of elements that is
coherently organized with an overall function or purpose.
It also includes interactions with other key systems.
 Definition of sustainable food systems
The overall purpose of food systems is to deliver food and nutrition
security for all.
A sustainable food system (SFS) is a food system that delivers food and
nutrition security to all, in such a way that the economic, societal and
environmental bases for generating food for future generations are not
compromised.
This further implies that sustainable food system must be resilient and
able to withstand external shocks, such as financial crises or extreme
weather events caused by climate change.
 As a result, people eat sufficient safe, healthy and nutritious diets,
produced and consumed within planetary boundaries.

 Food System diagram


Traditional system Pre-industrial
• Largely characterized by small-scale, low-input and labor-intensive
production
• Productivity may be lower, with a significant amount of food loss and
waste from perishable products and the food value chain is often shorter
from producer to consumer
• Produce is mostly sold unprocessed in local wet markets, directly to
consumer or in small shops.
Modern system Industrial
• Often characterized by an expansion in production and increased
productivity, with increased use of natural resources, external inputs and
adapted technologies
• Value chains tend to be longer (trade-oriented) with increased coordination
across global food chains
• Food is often processed and packaged to be sold in supermarkets.
• The emergence of the modern system is linked to the industrialization of
agriculture and agroprocessing, and the emergence of supermarkets and
restaurant chains, usually alongside growing urban populations and middle
classes.
• Meanwhile, the traditional system loses market share, but also starts
adapting.
Alternative system Post-Industrial
• Tend to make less use of external inputs compared with industrial food
systems, yet can be productive and diversified.
• The emergence of alternative system is based on broader social and
environmental sustainability goals, once the share of wealthier and more
informed middle class grows.
• Alternative systems are still small, but have a growing share.
• Meanwhile, traditional and modern systems adapt.

 Drivers of change

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