Shilomboleni Helena
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, P.O.Box 30709, Kenya.
AAS Open Res. 2020 Jun 26;3:27. doi: 10.12688/aasopenres.13078.1. eCollection 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food systems. Despite increased efficiencies in producing and supplying large volumes of food, our current food systems have generated multiple adverse outcomes comprising high greenhouse gas emissions, persistent hunger, and livelihood stress for farmers around the world. Nowhere else than in Africa have large numbers of people experienced more acutely these adverse shocks emanating from our food systems. Thus, building more resilient African food systems, which take a radical change of direction, is fundamentally a matter of survival. While there is broad consensus around a need for transformational change in food systems, what that entails is not always clear, and there are divergent views amongst experts on how to re-orient research priorities and agricultural solutions in ways that effectively address hunger and inequality while also protecting agrobiodiversity and the environment more broadly. This article engages with this debate and proposes an agricultural research for development agenda in Africa that balances technology transfer with realigning societal values, institutional arrangements, and policy decision-making towards the realization of greater sustainability and inclusive outcomes.
新冠疫情暴露了我们粮食系统的脆弱性。尽管在生产和供应大量粮食方面效率有所提高，但我们当前的粮食系统产生了多种不利后果，包括温室气体排放量高、长期饥饿以及给世界各地农民带来的生计压力。在非洲，大量民众比其他任何地方都更深刻地感受到了这些源自我们粮食系统的不利冲击。因此，构建更具韧性的非洲粮食系统，这需要彻底转变方向，从根本上来说是关乎生存的问题。虽然人们普遍认为粮食系统需要进行变革性改变，但具体意味着什么并不总是清晰明了，而且专家们对于如何以有效解决饥饿和不平等问题同时更广泛地保护农业生物多样性和环境的方式重新调整研究重点和农业解决方案存在不同观点。本文参与了这场辩论，并提出了一项非洲农业发展研究议程，该议程在技术转让与重新调整社会价值观、制度安排以及政策决策之间取得平衡，以实现更大的可持续性和包容性成果。
