Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security
Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security
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连接农业和粮食安全的概念框架
作者：
C. Nicholson;B. Kopainsky;Emma C. Stephens;D. Parsons;A. Jones;J. Garrett;E. Phillips
已经制定了许多概念框架，以便利了解和分析农业与粮食安全之间的联系。尽管这些框架对分析和投资起到了有益的指导作用，但它们在视角、假设和应用方面表现出了广泛的多样性。这篇评论文章审查了这种多样性，提供了一种评估框架的方法，并建议改进它们的具体和应用方式。使用基于标准的系统建模约定，我们评估了36个框架。我们发现，许多框架是为了说明而不是分析的目的，没有明确指出因果关系，往往忽视农业和粮食安全的动态(稳定)层面，并且缺乏通过农业改善粮食安全的明确干预点。通过将系统建模公约应用于一个广泛使用的框架，我们说明了这种公约如何能够提高框架在总体说明目的上的有用性，描绘关于农业-粮食安全联系的假设，并审查干预措施的潜在影响。将粮食安全与农业联系起来的概念框架在视角、假设和应用方面各不相同。在审查了36个这样的框架之后，将系统建模公约应用于一个被广泛引用的框架，以证明将这些工具纳入跨学科食物界的粮食安全框架的效用。
Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit wide diversity in perspectives, assumptions and application. This Review Article examines this diversity, providing an approach to assess frameworks and suggesting improvements in the way they are specified and applied. Using criteria-based systems modelling conventions, we evaluate 36 frameworks. We find that many frameworks are developed for the purpose of illustration rather than analysis and do not clearly indicate causal relationships, tending to ignore the dynamic (stability) dimensions of agriculture and food security and lacking clear intervention points for improving food security through agriculture. By applying system modelling conventions to a widely used framework, we illustrate how such conventions can enhance the usefulness of a framework for overall illustration purposes, delineate hypotheses on agriculture–food security links and examine potential impacts of interventions. Conceptual frameworks linking food security and agriculture are diverse in their perspectives, assumptions and applications. After reviewing 36 such frameworks, systems modelling conventions are applied to a broadly cited framework to demonstrate the utility of incorporating these tools into food security frameworks for the interdisciplinary food community.