Stephan Rist
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Agricultural commercialization and food security: Evidence and policy implications for smallholder farmers in Kenya
Agricultural commercialization and food security: Evidence and policy implications for smallholder farmers in Kenya Open
This study investigates the relationship between agricultural commercialization and food security among smallholder farmers in Kenya, integrating the Market Structure, Conduct, and Performance (SCP) paradigm with peasant economic theory. U…
View article: Transformations Towards Food Sustainability Using the Participatory Food Sustainability Assessment Framework (FoodSAF)
Transformations Towards Food Sustainability Using the Participatory Food Sustainability Assessment Framework (FoodSAF) Open
We are facing a global food crisis: the percentage of people with malnutrition are increasing, along with devastating results for the social-ecological environments, showing the unsustainability of the currently dominant food systems. The …
View article: Family Farmers' Perceptions of the Impact of Public Policies on the Food System: Findings From Brazil's Semi-Arid Region
Family Farmers' Perceptions of the Impact of Public Policies on the Food System: Findings From Brazil's Semi-Arid Region Open
The global narrative on food sustainability revolves around the need to improve food security, right to food, environmental performance, social-ecological resilience, reducing poverty, and inequality. Such principles were guiding a food po…
View article: Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method
Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method Open
In a world characterized by ongoing overexploitation of finite resources—such as land and forests—stakeholder conflicts over use of remaining resources occur frequently and are likely to intensify. There is increasing awareness of the need…
View article: Connecting Public Policies for Family Farmers and Women’s Empowerment: The Case of the Brazilian Semi-Arid
Connecting Public Policies for Family Farmers and Women’s Empowerment: The Case of the Brazilian Semi-Arid Open
The role played by women in worldwide food production and food security has reinvigorated debates about the recognition of women’s rights in the rural sector regarding better working conditions and the reduction of gender inequalities. In …
View article: Learning and Adaptation in Food Systems: Insights from Four Case Studies in the Global South
Learning and Adaptation in Food Systems: Insights from Four Case Studies in the Global South Open
This article presents empirical results on learning and adaptation to risks among different groups of actors in food systems in two countries of the global south (Kenya and Bolivia). Using a resilience approach, the study sought to assess …
View article: Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya
Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya Open
Access to productive resources such as land and water is fundamental for households that rely on crop and livestock production for their livelihoods. Research often assumes that agricultural production—and thus, food security—are favoured …
View article: Variety is the source of life: Agrobiodiversity benefits, challenges, and needs
Variety is the source of life: Agrobiodiversity benefits, challenges, and needs Open
For millennia, humankind’s food security and resilience were ensured by thousands of cultivated plant species, dozens of domesticated animal species, and the wider biodiversity from which they derive. But with the expansion of industrial a…
View article: Social Self-Organization and Social-Ecological Resilience in Food Systems: Lessons from Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya and Indigenous Guaraní Communities in Bolivia
Social Self-Organization and Social-Ecological Resilience in Food Systems: Lessons from Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya and Indigenous Guaraní Communities in Bolivia Open
Food systems face pressures related to global environmental change and agricultural intensification that make access to productive resources difficult for many actors. Social self-organization is one of the measures taken by actors to enab…
View article: Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region
Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region Open
Food insecurity remains a major concern for numerous rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa who rely on agriculture as their main source of livelihood. The assessment of the links between food security and livelihoods is central for overco…
View article: Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia
Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia Open
Food system research requires an understanding of system actors and activities. To this end, we codesigned and conducted a food system mapping process in 2 regions, one in Kenya and the other in Bolivia, that stretches frommountains to low…
View article: Assessing Food Systems and Their Impact on Common Pool Resources and Resilience
Assessing Food Systems and Their Impact on Common Pool Resources and Resilience Open
The ongoing expansion of agro-industrial food systems is associated with severe socio-ecological problems. For a closer look at the socio-ecological impacts, we analyze the capacity of six food systems to provide farm-based agroecosystem s…
View article: Agroecosystem Service Capacity Index – A methodological approach
Agroecosystem Service Capacity Index – A methodological approach Open
ustainable food systems (FS) require providing food and other goods and services to humans satisfying food security, right to food, income, social justice and resilience, without degrading human health and hiving high environmental perform…
View article: What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse
What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse Open
The concepts, ‘sustainable development’ and ‘sustainable agriculture’, have been shaped by both political discourses of the United Nations and scientific discourses. Using critical discourse and content analysis, we trace the meaning of ‘s…
View article: Research funding programmes aiming for societal transformations: Ten key stages
Research funding programmes aiming for societal transformations: Ten key stages Open
Societal issues such as poverty, water scarcity, and food insecurity make it more important than ever for science to produce knowledge that is relevant to address serious challenges on the ground. A growing number of research funding progr…
View article: Evaluating the contributions of One Health initiatives to social sustainability
Evaluating the contributions of One Health initiatives to social sustainability Open
One Health is an approach that integrates perspectives from human, animal and environmental health to address health challenges. As the idea of One Health is grounded in achieving sustainable outcomes, an important aspect is the contributi…
View article: Distant Interactions, Power, and Environmental Justice in Protected Area Governance: A Telecoupling Perspective
Distant Interactions, Power, and Environmental Justice in Protected Area Governance: A Telecoupling Perspective Open
Equity has become a major concern in efforts to conserve nature. However, in the Global South, inequitable social impacts of conservation usually prevail. We investigate barriers to equitable governance of four protected areas through an i…
View article: Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?
Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources? Open
The sharp increase in the price and production of quinoa between 1990 and 2014 has had important impacts in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano region, previously considered one of the poorest regions in the country. The socio-economic status of …
View article: Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators
Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators Open
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 methodologicall…
View article: Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security
Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security Open
Multi-stakeholder participation (MSP) has become a central feature in several institutions and processes of global governance. Those who promote them trust that these arrangements can advance the deliberative quality of international insti…