Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system.

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dc.contributor.authorMartin-Ortega, Julia
dc.contributor.authorRothwell, Shane A.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Aine
dc.contributor.authorOkumah, Murat
dc.contributor.authorLyon, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorSherry, Erin
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorWithers, Paul J.A.
dc.contributor.authorDoody, Donnacha
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-14T14:42:15Z
dc.date.available2022-02-14T14:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-12
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 18 January 2022; Published online - 12 February 2022.en_US
dc.description.abstractFood systems worldwide are vulnerable to Phosphorus (P) supply disruptions and price fluctuations. Current P use is also highly inefficient, generating large surpluses and pollution. Global food security and aquatic ecosystems are in jeopardy if transformative action is not taken. This paper pivots from earlier (predominantly conceptual) work to develop and analyse a P transdisciplinary scenario process, assessing stakeholders potential for transformative thinking in P use in the food system. Northern Ireland, a highly livestock-intensive system, was used as case study for illustrating such process. The stakeholder engagement takes a normative stance in that it sets the explicit premise that the food system needs to be transformed and asks stakeholders to engage in a dialogue on how that transformation can be achieved. A Substance Flow Analysis of P flows and stocks was employed to construct visions for alternative futures and stimulate stakeholder discussions on system responses. These were analysed for their transformative potential using a triple-loop social learning framework. For the most part, stakeholder responses remained transitional or incremental, rather than being fundamentally transformative. The process did unveil some deeper levers that could be acted upon to move the system further along the spectrum of transformational change (e.g. changes in food markets, creation of new P markets, destocking, new types of land production and radical land use changes), providing clues of what an aspirational system could look like. Replicated and adapted elsewhere, this process can serve as diagnostics of current stakeholders thinking and potential, as well as for the identification of those deeper levers, opening up avenues to work upon for global scale transformation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research forms part of the RephoKUs project (The role of Phosphorus in the Resilience and Sustainability of the UK food system), funded by the Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System' Programme with funding from the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Scottish Government (Grant No. BB/R005842/1)en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/406
dc.identifier.citationMartin-Ortega, J., Rothwell, S.A., Anderson, A., Okumah, M., Lyon, C., Sherry, E., Johnston, C., Withers, P.J.A. and Doody, D.G. (2022) ‘Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system’, Environmental Science & Policy. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.011en_US
dc.identifier.issn1462-9011
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.011
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectagricultureen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden_US
dc.subjectParticipationen_US
dc.subjectScenario analysisen_US
dc.subjectSocial learningen_US
dc.subjectSubstance Flow Analysisen_US
dc.subjectTransformationsen_US
dc.titleAre stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-01-18
dcterms.dateSubmitted2021-08-11

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