Unfolding sustainability transitions in food systems: Insights from UK and French trajectories.

ABSTRACT: While the negative environmental, social and health impacts of the current food system have been acknowledged and evidenced for several decades, the recent and current transformations in food systems at diverse scales are not yet addressing the many inter-related stakes at play. Due to the much wider set of interactions in this consumption-production system, new conceptual tools are required for understanding and assessing sustainability transitions and what prevents them. The article will draw on the cases of France and the UK to examine these countries' national food systems' historical trajectories and suggest a periodization of these in order to reveal common characteristics and differences. This will show that despite common major trends and common transition or inertia mechanisms, pa

SUBMITTER: Lamine C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10666093 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature