The Food Systems Approach: Sustainable Solutions for a Sufficient Supply of Healthy Food
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Systems thinking is an interdisciplinary approach that broadens perspectives when designing sustainable solutions for issues like food supply. This article discusses the usefulness of mapping food systems and how applying systems thinking to food security and production helps identify the best opportunities for more efficient use of natural resources while shedding light on the tradeoffs between different intervention strategies.
How can a systems approach lead to better policymaking and more sustainable solutions?
2 The food systems approach as a broad interdisciplinary conceptual framework