Elgar Companion to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development

Edited by Prajal Pradhan, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Laxmi Prasad Pant, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK

• ContentsList of contributors viii1 Introduction to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development 1Prajal Pradhan and Laxmi Prasad Pant2 Promoting agro-food system transformation and poverty eradication 9Mingxing Sun and Shaoyue Ma3 Ending all forms of malnutrition through food system transformation 23Charoula Konstantia Nikolaou and Laxmi Prasad Pant4 Sustainable food systems for health and wellbeing 37Sharada Prasad Wasti, Atul Upadhyay and Laxmi Prasad Pant5 Moving beyond the colonial single-track education for food systemtransformation toward sustainability 53Kishor Atreya, Kanchan Kattel, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai and LaxmiPrasad Pant6 Food systems transformation for achieving gender equality andcontributing to Sustainable Development Goals 72Hom Nath Gartaula, Deepali Chadha, Kishor Atreya, PramaMukhopadhyay, Anisha Sapkota and Ranjitha Puskur7 Sustainable water–food system transformation in arid and semi-aridregions 88Rocky Talchabhadel, Sanjib Sharma, Analicia L. Perez and Elizabeth F. Racine8 On kilowatts and calories: integrating sustainable energy in food systems 100Laurence L. Delina and Chloe Chan9 Leverage points for achieving integrated socio-ecological security acrossthe water, energy, food (WEF) nexus 115Larry A. Swatuk, Corrine Cash and Natasha Tang Kai10 Will it work out for labour? Implications of the food system transformationon employment and decent work 132Claudia Hunecke11 Responsible innovation for sustainable and just food systems 149Cody Kugler, Maria Boa-Alvarado, Mario Herrero and Daniel Mason-D’Croz12 Food system transformation to reduce inequality within and amongcountries 166Madiha Ahmed and Sandra Gagnon13 Provisioning sustainable food for cities and human settlements: principlesand examples 182Ina Horlings, Stephen Leitheiser, Pablo Tittonell and Elen-Maarja Trell14 The dual role of government in transforming urban food systems in Berlin 201Stefanie Lyn Becker15 Responsible food production and consumption 208Yuanchao Hu, Vivienne Reiner, Mengyu Li and Arunima Malik16 Food system transformation for climate action 221Toshihiro Hasegawa, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Helen Gurney-Smith17 Climate-smart agriculture for South Asia to transform food system andsustainable development 236Rajiv Ghimire and Jagadish Parajuli18 Climate change driven agricultural frontiers: land sparing and land sharingstrategies in Canada’s north 245Krishna Bahadur KC and Edan Tzadok19 Climate change threats to supply chains in Australia’s food bowl 253Vivienne Reiner and Arunima Malik20 Terrestrial versus aquatic foods: how more seafood can help to conservelife below water (SDG14) 260Holger Kühnhold and Furqan Asif21 Insights into three alternative agriculture practices to foster food systemtransformation for life on land 283Jorien Zevenberg and Henny J. van der Windt22 Strategies for implementing the food, ecosystem, and climate nexus 298Junze Zhang and Mengting Luo23 Accelerating land restoration for enhancing pastoral livelihoods inMandera County of Kenya 314Erick Wanga, David Kitheka, Salil Bhattarai and Avish Raj24 Farming diversification and agroecological practices: pathways tosustainable systems in the Andean-Amazon foothills 319Lucila Marcela Beltrán Tolosa, Martin Londoño Behaine and MarcelaQuintero25 Peace, justice, and food system transformation 328Caroline Delgado and Dan Smith26 Conclusion: directionality and diversity of food system governancepartnerships toward sustainable futures 346Laxmi Prasad Pant, Tim Benton, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai, RajuPandit Chhetri, Tek Bahadur Sapkota and Prajal Pradhan

‘This Companion is a critical guide to a just and sustainable food system transformation, offering essential evidence and strategies. It powerfully charts the complex linkages with global goals, providing specific insights for navigating an equitable future.’