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Seekell et al. 2017

Seekell, D.A., J. Carr, J. Dell'Angelo, P. D'Odorico, M. Fader, J.A. Gephart, M. Kummu, N. Magliocca, M. Porkka, and M.J. Puma, 2017: Resilience in the global food system. Environ. Res. Lett., 12, no. 2, 025010, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa5730.

Ensuring food security requires food production and distribution systems function throughout disruptions. Understanding the factors that contribute to the global food systems ability to respond and adapt to such disruptions (i.e. resilience) is critical for understanding the long-term sustainability of human populations. However, methods for tracking changes in resilience have had limited application to food systems. We developed an indicator-based analysis of food systems resilience for the years 1992-2011. Our approach is based on three dimensions of resilience: socio-economic access to food in terms of income of the poorest quintile relative to food prices, biophysical capacity to intensify or extensify food production, and the magnitude and diversity of current domestic food production. The socio-economic indicator has large variability, but with low values concentrated in Africa and Asia. The biophysical capacity indicator is highest in Africa and Eastern Europe, in part because of high potential for extensification of cropland and for yield gap closure in cultivated areas. However, the biophysical capacity indicator has declined globally in recent years. The production diversity indicator has increased, with a relatively even geographic distribution. Few countries had exclusively high or low values for all indicators. Collectively, these results are the basis for global comparisons of resilience between nations, and provide necessary context for developing generalizations about the resilience in the global food system.

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@article{se04200y,
  author={Seekell, D. A. and Carr, J. and Dell'Angelo, J. and D'Odorico, P. and Fader, M. and Gephart, J. A. and Kummu, M. and Magliocca, N. and Porkka, M. and Puma, M. J.},
  title={Resilience in the global food system},
  year={2017},
  journal={Environmental Research Letters},
  volume={12},
  number={2},
  pages={025010},
  doi={10.1088/1748-9326/aa5730},
}

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RIS Citation

TY  - JOUR
ID  - se04200y
AU  - Seekell, D. A.
AU  - Carr, J.
AU  - Dell'Angelo, J.
AU  - D'Odorico, P.
AU  - Fader, M.
AU  - Gephart, J. A.
AU  - Kummu, M.
AU  - Magliocca, N.
AU  - Porkka, M.
AU  - Puma, M. J.
PY  - 2017
TI  - Resilience in the global food system
JA  - Environ. Res. Lett.
JO  - Environmental Research Letters
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 025010
DO  - 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5730
ER  -

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