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Food system resilience thinking: from digital to integral.

María Emilia Brassesco¹, Manuela Pintado¹, Ezequiel R Coscueta¹

¹Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal.

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Global food systems require transformation for resilience, integrating concepts like circular economy and sustainability. This ensures secure access to quality food for all, despite environmental and societal challenges.

Keywords:

circular economy environmental problems healthy diet nutritional impact sustainability

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Food Science
Environmental Science
Sustainability Studies

Background:

Global food systems face threats from environmental degradation, nutritional inequality, and socio-economic instability.
Factors like financial/political collapses, health crises, urbanization, and industrialization jeopardize food security.
A profound transformation is necessary to prevent ecosystem destabilization and a global food crisis.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose global resilience thinking as the foundational step for transforming food systems.
To integrate the concept of resilience with circular economy and sustainability principles.
To outline strategies for achieving an integrated and resilient food system.

Main Methods:

Conceptual framework development integrating resilience, circular economy, and sustainability.
Analysis of current food system vulnerabilities and drivers of insecurity.
Identification of key transformation strategies including value chain redesign and consumer re-education.

Main Results:

A resilient food system is defined as one capable of recovering over time, ensuring sustainable, quality food access for everyone.
Proposed integration of resilience with circular economy and sustainability principles.
Key strategies identified: redesigning value chains, promoting healthier diets, and adopting digital innovation.

Conclusions:

Global resilience thinking is crucial for transforming food systems.
Integrating resilience, circular economy, and sustainability is essential for food security.
Redesigning food system focus beyond economic efficiency to include trade-offs and ecosystem services is vital for achieving resilience.