Transforming sectors: how to improve direction and practice
Based on over twenty years of experience in agri-food, WCDI brings knowledge into action in sector programmes. In this book, we share critical choices that can be made when transforming food systems, and reflect on knowledge co-creation in sector programmes, so that the process inspires future strategy and practice, and contributes to planetary health.
Food system transformation appears very abstract to many practitioners. However, sectors can be used as a practical entry point for fostering transformation in food systems; critically reviewing and analysing frameworks and practices, this book shows how it can be done.
Previous WCDI and partner strategies and practices in sector programmes targeted only food security and nutrition outcomes. The new perspectives on sector transformation that we describe in this publication offer insights and solutions to more problems. They aim not only for inclusive food systems but also for planetary health, so that food security and nutrition is embedded in many other positive outcomes.
This publication is for people who work in agri-food sectors and for people who approach the sector from a more inclusive and planetary health perspective.
We invite agro-food sector transformation practitioners to use the new insights, to learn, and to engage in processes of co-creation. We hope to advance this emerging framework and its principles, while being critical and open to other questions that we will encounter in this process.
A guide to improve direction and practice in the transformation of agro-food sectors:
- an evolutionary perspective on sector transformation
- four frameworks for analysing the practices and programmes of sector transformation
- an analysis of multiple sector transformation programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America,
- a framework for the transformation to regenerative and distributive agri-food sectors within inclusive food systems and contributing to planetary health