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dc.contributor.authorNicholson, Charles F.
dc.contributor.authorKopainsky, Birgit
dc.contributor.authorStephens, Emma
dc.contributor.authorParsons, David
dc.contributor.authorJones, Andrew D.
dc.contributor.authorGarrett, James H.
dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Erica
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-04T09:50:21Z
dc.date.available2021-05-04T09:50:21Z
dc.date.created2020-12-01T17:37:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2662-1355
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2753450
dc.description.abstractMany 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.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherNatureen_US
dc.titleConceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food securityen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Authorsen_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextpostprint
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s43016-020-00142-
dc.identifier.cristin1855006
dc.source.journalNature Fooden_US
dc.source.pagenumber541–551en_US
dc.identifier.citationNature Food. 2020, 1, 541–551en_US
dc.source.volume1en_US


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