@article{50351c22404a41c3a02ddadfa1a8bc2f,
title = "Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators",
abstract = "Governance of food systems is a poorly understood determinant of food security. Much scholarship on food systems governance is non-empirical, while existing empirical research is often case study-based and theoretically and methodologically incommensurable. This complicates aggregation of evidence and generalization. This paper presents a review of literature to identify a core set of methodological indicators to study food systems governance in future research. Indicators were identified from literature gathered through a structured consultation and sampling from recent systematic reviews and were classified according to governance levels and the food system activity domain they investigate. We found a concentration of indicators in food production at local to national levels and with less literature investigating how food governance affects food distribution and consumption. Many indicators of institutional structure were found, while indicators capturing social agency and indicators of cross-scale dynamics were moderately represented but critical perspectives on governance were lacking. These gaps present an opportunity for future empirical research to investigate more comprehensively the diverse components of food systems and how governance arrangements at different scales affect them.",
keywords = "Evidence synthesis, Food security, Food systems, Governance, Research methods, Socio-ecological change",
author = "Aog{\'a}n Delaney and Tom Evans and John McGreevy and Jordan Blekking and Tyler Schlachter and Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki and Tam{\'a}s, {Peter A.} and Crane, {Todd A.} and Hallie Eakin and Wiebke F{\"o}rch and Lindsey Jones and Nelson, {Donald R.} and Christoph Oberlack and Mark Purdon and Stephan Rist",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We acknowledge the CGIAR Fund Council, Australia (ACIAR), Irish Aid, European Union, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, UK, USAID and Thailand for funding to the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The research for this article was funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), under the Priorities and Policies for CSA Flagship. This article builds upon an earlier version which appeared as a CCAFS Working Paper, number 167. This work was also supported by the US National Science Foundation (grant numbers BCS-1534544, SES-1360421, and SES-1360463) and some authors benefitted from support from the R4D project BFood Sustainability^ funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF 400540-152033). We would like to thank Katrien Termeer for helpful insights throughout the project. Thanks are also extended to all those who helped by suggesting literature during consultation, all authors who responded to requests during the review and to Patricia Lezotte of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University for invaluable assistance during drafting. We acknowledge the services of the Biblioth{\`e}que Nationale de Luxembourg for providing access to materials reviewed. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature and International Society for Plant Pathology.",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s12571-018-0770-y",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "287--310",
journal = "Food Security",
issn = "1876-4517",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "2",
}