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A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

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  • Hebinck, Aniek
  • Zurek, Monika
  • Achterbosch, Thom
  • Forkman, Björn
  • Kuijsten, Anneleen
  • Kuiper, Marijke
  • Nørrung, Birgit
  • van ’t Veer, Pieter
  • Leip, Adrian

Abstract

Growing acknowledgement that food systems require transformation has led to a call for comprehensive sustainability assessments to support decision-making. For frameworks to serve sustainability governance, they must show the trade-offs and unintended consequences that might result from policy decisions across key goals relevant to food system actors. This paper reviews literature and frameworks and builds on stakeholder input to present a Sustainability Compass with associated metrics for food system assessments. The Compass defines sustainability scores for four societal goals, underpinned by areas of concern. The operationalization approach balances policy-usability, system complexity and comprehensiveness. We present the Sustainability Compass as a tool for food system assessment, able to generate comprehensive insights and provide the basis for inclusive and reflexive policy making.

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  • Hebinck, Aniek & Zurek, Monika & Achterbosch, Thom & Forkman, Björn & Kuijsten, Anneleen & Kuiper, Marijke & Nørrung, Birgit & van ’t Veer, Pieter & Leip, Adrian, 2021. "A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems," SocArXiv ab8ts_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:ab8ts_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ab8ts_v1
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