Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Steven R. McGreevy; Christoph D.D. Rupprecht; Daniel Niles; Arnim Wiek; Michael Carolan; Giorgos Kallis; Kanang Kantamaturapoj; Astrid Mangnus; Petr Jehlička; Oliver Taherzadeh; Marlyne Sahakian; Ilan Chabay; Ashley Colby; Jose Luis Vivero-Pol; Rajat Chaudhuri; Maximilian Spiegelberg; Mai Kobayashi; Bálint Balázs; Kazuaki Tsuchiya; Clara Nicholls; Keiko Tanaka; Joost Vervoort; Motoki Akitsu; Hein Mallee; Kazuhiko Ota; Rika Shinkai; Ashlesha Khadse; Norie Tamura; Ken ichi Abe; Miguel Altieri; Yo Ichiro Sato; Masashi Tachikawa

doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht, Daniel Niles, Arnim Wiek, Michael Carolan, Giorgos Kallis, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Astrid Mangnus, Petr Jehlička, Oliver Taherzadeh, Marlyne Sahakian, Ilan Chabay, Ashley Colby, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Rajat Chaudhuri, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Mai Kobayashi, Bálint Balázs, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Clara NichollsKeiko Tanaka, Joost Vervoort, Motoki Akitsu, Hein Mallee, Kazuhiko Ota, Rika Shinkai, Ashlesha Khadse, Norie Tamura, Ken ichi Abe, Miguel Altieri, Yo Ichiro Sato, Masashi Tachikawa

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Abstract

Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care. This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant discourses on food system sustainability but point towards a post-growth world in which agroecological life processes support healthy communities rather than serving as inputs for the relentless pursuit of economic growth.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1011-1017
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	5
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5
State	Published - Dec 2022

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This paper stems from research conducted in the FEAST Project (Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Production and Consumption: Agrifood Systems in Transition) (no. 14200116), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). We thank RIHN and the organizers of the 15th International Symposium entitled ‘Transitioning cultures of everyday food consumption and production: stories from a post-growth future’, which served as a starting point for developing this paper. Additional research funding for this paper is from JSPS Kaken research grants no. 19K15931 and no. 20K15552. A.W. acknowledges funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (TRANSFORM, grant no. 50658-10029). G.K. acknowledges support by the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (no. CEX2019-000940-M) grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. P.J. acknowledges support from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Lumina quaeruntur award (no. LQ300282103). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 870759. The content presented in this document represents the views of the authors, and the European Commission has no liability in respect to the content. This paper is supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), who funded the NWO Vidi project ANTICIPLAY (project no. VI. Vidi.195.007) and its research team. This paper stems from research conducted in the FEAST Project (Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Production and Consumption: Agrifood Systems in Transition) (no. 14200116), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). We thank RIHN and the organizers of the 15th International Symposium entitled ‘Transitioning cultures of everyday food consumption and production: stories from a post-growth future’, which served as a starting point for developing this paper. Additional research funding for this paper is from JSPS Kaken research grants no. 19K15931 and no. 20K15552. A.W. acknowledges funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (TRANSFORM, grant no. 50658-10029). G.K. acknowledges support by the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (no. CEX2019-000940-M) grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. P.J. acknowledges support from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Lumina quaeruntur award (no. LQ300282103). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 870759. The content presented in this document represents the views of the authors, and the European Commission has no liability in respect to the content. This paper is supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), who funded the NWO Vidi project ANTICIPLAY (project no. VI. Vidi.195.007) and its research team.

Funders	Funder number
María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence	CEX2019-000940-M
TRANSFORM	50658-10029
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	870759
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
European Commission
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	19K15931, 20K15552
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Akademie Věd České Republiky	LQ300282103
Akademie Věd České Republiky
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
National Institutes for the Humanities, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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Global and Planetary Change
Food Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Ecology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Urban Studies
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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McGreevy, S. R., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Niles, D., Wiek, A., Carolan, M., Kallis, G., Kantamaturapoj, K., Mangnus, A., Jehlička, P., Taherzadeh, O., Sahakian, M., Chabay, I., Colby, A., Vivero-Pol, J. L., Chaudhuri, R., Spiegelberg, M., Kobayashi, M., Balázs, B., Tsuchiya, K., ... Tachikawa, M. (2022). Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world. Nature Sustainability, 5(12), 1011-1017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

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