Publications by authors named "Piero Conforti"
Article Synopsis
- The analysis introduces a food system indicator framework and monitoring architecture to assess food system changes related to global development and sustainability goals, focusing on five key themes: diets and health, environmental impact, livelihoods and equity, governance, and resilience.
- A total of 50 indicators were developed through a consultative process, ensuring coverage for each theme, which serves as a baseline for evaluating global food systems.
- While every country shows positive outcomes in certain areas, no country excels across all domains, indicating room for improvement towards achieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems by 2030.
Agricultural intensification, through increased yields, and raising incomes, through enhanced labor productivity, are two dimensions prioritized for sustainable agricultural development. Prioritizing these two outcomes leaves labor intensity as a hidden adjustment variable. Yet, when agriculture is mainstay and the prospects of labor absorption in other sectors are scarce, the density of agricultural employment is central for livelihoods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFood security and sustainability: can one exist without the other?
Public Health Nutr
September 2015
Objective: To position the concept of sustainability within the context of food security.
Design: An overview of the interrelationships between food security and sustainability based on a non-systematic literature review and informed discussions based principally on a quasi-historical approach from meetings and reports.
Setting: International and global food security and nutrition.