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Sustainable Food Systems - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Crop variance
      - Resilience
      - Biodiversity and land use
      - Regional variance
    - - Yield analysis often do not consider nutrition, pesticide residues...
    - - Need to factor in negative and positive externalities as part of these debates
    - - Concerns about land demand: a weak argument against sustainable production
    - - Less research being done on questions of social equity and quality of life in farm communities....
  - - - Increased farmer access to capital
      - Elimination of crop subsidies and biofuel incentives
      - Use of agro-environmental incentives
      - Investment in rural development
    - - Measures to ensure open and competetive markets
      - Reduction in commercial influence on government
      - Development of national targets and trade policies for food and ecosystem security
      - Enhanced security of land tenure
    - - Public investment in agroecological research
      - Farmer engagement in research
      - Outreach for farmer knowledge
      - Enhancement of women's educational and leadership opportunities
      - Increased transparency throughout food chain
- - - - Pasture-based livestock systems
      - more mixed systems
      - financial support for ecological production
      - Knowledge systems to support sustainable production and consumption
    - - Smallholder mixed farming systems
        
        ex: increased access to markets
      - Pastoral systems
        
        ex: Strengthened land tenure, mobility rights
      - Commercial grazing systems
        
        ex; integrated crop production
      - Intensive livestock systems
        
        ex: Improved conditions for workers and animals throughout supply chains
- - - - Sea Lice
      - Disease Outbreaks
      - Spread of invasive species
      - Stress on fresh water source
      - Feed (land-based and fishing)
    - - Changes to culturing systems
      - Feed strategies
      - Species selection
    - - Contributing to food security
      - Notion of minimizing risks through diverse investments
- - - - Exceptions made
      - distance to markets
      - quality of land
      - Fear of insecure tenure
      - Farming itself may not be sustainable
    - - Land Linking
        
        Focused on private agreements between land owner and aspiring farmer
      - Land Banks
        
        Broader, coordinated approach to land linking
      - Land Trusts
        
        Collective approach to land access and governance, focused on farmland protection
      - Community Farms Program
        
        Collective approach to land access, tenure and governance
      - Challenges
        
        High land costs still and issue
        
        Ongoing preference for land ownership
        
        Concerns about security of tenure
        
        Relationships and decision making
- - - - Competition
        
        With conventional supply chains
      - Costs
        
        Production costs restrict financial accessibility
      - Convinience
        
        Logistic concerns for both farmers and consumer
      - Solutions
        
        Food Hubs help with aggregation, processing, distribution and storage
- - - - Poor physical and economic access
      - lack of education
    - - Community-based education
      - Better access of seasonal food options
      - Providing healthier foods at food banks
      - Spreading Awareness
      - Stricter policies for school lunches
      - Addressing food deserts
  - - - Colonial approach could reduce diversity of traditional diets
      - Costs for population
      - Corporate capture of vegetarian diet trends
      - Challenges regarding corporations driving overconsumption of processed foods
- - - - Food Chain Interactions: Production, trade, consumption
      - Scalar dynamics
      - Disciplinary differences in terms of approaches
    - - Contextual Factors that are hard to measure or anticipate: population dynamics, lifestyle changes, climate change feedback mechanisms.
      - Being attentive to social and justice-related issues
      - Volatility (prices and supply)
      - Technology (diffusing innovations)
      - Food System transformation
    - - "Ground" modelling through dialogue and participatory approaches
      - Consider ethical dimensions of how modelling may be mobilized
      - Avoid being over-confident in modelling
    - - Agronomists
      - Agricultural economists
      - Development agencies
    - - Planning and problem solving
      - Anticipating effects of interventions
      - Avoiding social and political systemic stresses
  - - - Role of Global Affairs Canada
      - Emergency Food Assistance