Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management

230 Pages·2015·1.4 MB·English

by  Ari Paloviita

Climate Change Adaptation and
Food Supply Chain Management
The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms
and local communities. The direct climate change risks faced by the agricultural
sector are therefore also risks to businesses and food supply chains. Hence the
importance of resilience at farm level, community level and business level when
looking at food supply chain policy and management.
Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management highlights the
issue of adaptation to climate change in food supply chains, the management and
policy implications and the importance of supply chain resilience. Attention is
given to each phase of the supply chain: input production, agriculture, food
processing, retailing, consumption and post-consumption. European case studies
demonstrate the vulnerabilities of contemporary food supply chains, the oppor-
tunities and competitive advantages related to climate change, and the trans-
disciplinary challenges related to successful climate adaptation. The authors
argue for a redefinition of the way food supply chains are operated, located and
coordinated and propose a novel approach enhancing climate-resilient food
supply chain policy and management.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners and policy-
makers in the field of climate adaptation and food supply chain management
and policy.
Ari Paloviita is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences and
Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Marja Järvelä is a Professor (emerita) in the Department of Social Sciences and
Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Climate Change Adaptation
and Food Supply Chain
Management
Edited by Ari Paloviita and Marja Järvelä
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Climate change adaptation and food supply chain management / [edited by]
Ari Paloviita and Marja Järvelä
pages cm. – (Routledge advances in climate change research)
1. Food supply–Environmental aspects. 2. Food supply–Management.
3. Food supply–Government policy. 4. Climatic changes–Social aspects
5. Climatic changes–Economic aspects. 6. Sustainable agriculture.
7. Sustainability. I. Paloviita, Ari. II. Järvelä, Marja.
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Contents
List of illustrations x
List of contributors xi
Foreword xvi
1 Climate change adaptation and food supply chain management:
an overview 1
ARI PALOVIITA AND MARJA JÄRVELÄ
PART I
Food supply chains: actors, products and relationships 15
2 Climate change and food security: three case studies
on uncertainty 17
PEKKA JOKINEN, TUIJA MONONEN AND RAUNO SAIRINEN
3 Building resilient food supply chains for the future 30
TITTA TAPIOLA AND ARI PALOVIITA
4 Making sense of resilience in barley breeding:
converting the concept of response diversity into
a tool of reflection and decision-making 43
SAMI PAAVOLA, SARI J HIMANEN, HELENA KAHILUOTO
AND REIJO MIETTINEN
viii Contents
PART II
Local vs. regional vulnerabilities and opportunities 55
5 Vulnerability to climate change in food systems:
challenges in assessment methodologies 57
SIRKKU JUHOLA AND TINA-SIMONE NESET
6 Food security during climate change: the challenge
of European diversity 70
GIANLUCA BRUNORI AND TIINA SILVASTI
7 Climate change, vulnerability and the local adaptation
strategies of food enterprises in Finland 82
ANTTI PUUPPONEN
8 Carbon footprinting: the clearest way to create
a climate-friendly food consumption and food chain 93
HANNA HARTIKAINEN, HANNELE PULKKINEN,
JUHA-MATTI KATAJAJUURI AND PIRJO PELTONEN-SAINIO
PART III
Sustainable livelihood, community and farm resilience 105
9 Good farmers, good adapters? How a cultural understanding
of good farming affects the adaptive capacity of farmers 107
SUVI HUTTUNEN, HANNA MELA AND MIKAEL HILDÉN
10 Framing resilience in relation to territorialisation 119
ELENA BATTAGLINI, MARIJA BABOVIĆ AND NATALIJA BOGDANOV
11 Balancing climate change mitigation and adaptation
with the socio-economic goals of farms in Northern Europe 132
HEIKKI LEHTONEN, XING LIU AND TUOMO PUROLA
12 Coping with climate change: rural livelihoods,
vulnerabilities and farm resilience 147
MARJA JÄRVELÄ AND TEEA KORTETMÄKI
Contents ix
PART IV
Climate-resilient supply chain management:
upstream and downstream 159
13 Managing food systems to enhance resilience 161
HELENA KAHILUOTO, KAROLIINA RIMHANEN, MIIA KUISMA
AND HANNA MÄKINEN
14 Citizens and sustainable culinary cultures 172
JOHANNA MÄKELÄ AND MARI NIVA
15 Food waste and related climate impacts in Finland 183
KIRSI SILVENNOINEN, JUHA-MATTI KATAJAJUURI,
HANNA HARTIKAINEN, LOTTA HEIKKILÄ AND ANU REINIKAINEN
16 Food processing companies, retailers and climate-resilient
supply chain management 194
ARI PALOVIITA
Index 206