Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Context: new challenges for food systems
- 2 Consumption and consumers
- 3 Carbon footprint and nutritional quality of diets in France
- 4 Food systems
- 5 Industrial organisation and sustainability
- 6 Urbanisation and the sustainability of food systems
- 7 Losses and wastage
- 8 International trade, price volatility and standards for sustainability
- 9 Elements for a foresight debate on food sustainability
- 10 A critical panorama of methods used to assess food sustainability
- Conclusion
- References
- List of abbreviations
- List of duALIne experts
- Index
10 - A critical panorama of methods used to assess food sustainability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Context: new challenges for food systems
- 2 Consumption and consumers
- 3 Carbon footprint and nutritional quality of diets in France
- 4 Food systems
- 5 Industrial organisation and sustainability
- 6 Urbanisation and the sustainability of food systems
- 7 Losses and wastage
- 8 International trade, price volatility and standards for sustainability
- 9 Elements for a foresight debate on food sustainability
- 10 A critical panorama of methods used to assess food sustainability
- Conclusion
- References
- List of abbreviations
- List of duALIne experts
- Index
Summary
The duALIne project chose to examine the methods used to assess food sustainability in a chapter of its own, separate from the sectorial approaches presented previously, so that this examination could be as open as possible. This chapter focuses in particular on the specific issues posed by food vis-à-vis the methods currently used to measure sustainability. Under this approach, this chapter looks firstly at the complexity of food systems, then how the associated challenges of sustainability could be structured and finally presents some methods and indicators and the research questions they raise.
Introduction
Measuring performance has become a widespread activity in modern societies. It is the benchmark by which political and economic choices are regularly backed and/or justified. Performance indicators, whatever their objective, have seen exponential development, as have the operators who construct them. Assessing the performance of food systems through the prism of sustainable development is still a recent concern that requires in-depth reflection, both in terms of its scope and of the issue(s) to be assessed on the one hand, and regarding the choices of the sustainable challenges targeted or the assessment methods to be used on the other.
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- Food System SustainabilityInsights From duALIne, pp. 198 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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