Climate smart food supply chains in developing countries in an era of rapid dual change in agrifood systems and the climate
January 31, 2018 - Thomas Reardon, David Zilberman
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EmailReardon, T., & Zilberman, D. (2018). Climate smart food supply chains in developing countries in an era of rapid dual change in agrifood systems and the climate. In Climate smart agriculture (pp. 335-351). Springer, Cham.
Abstract
Food supply chains are essential to food security in developing regions where today the great majority of food consumed is purchased from rural-urban, rural-rural, and urban-rural supply chains. Disrupting those supply chains means disrupting food security. Yet short-term climate shocks and long-term climate change threaten to cause that disruption. This chapter does four things:(1) analyzes the types and determinants of vulnerabilities of food supply chains to climate shocks and change;(2) considers how those vulnerabilities are conditioned by urbanization, diet change, and rapid transformation of food systems;(3) discusses how supply chain actors, from farmers to processors and distributors and input suppliers, invest in mitigation of the risks of these shocks and reduction of their vulnerabilities;(4) discusses policy implications and lays out an agenda for research for climate smart food supply chains in developing regions.
