Sobratee N, Davids R, Chinzila C B, Mabaudhi T, Scheelbeek P, Modi A T, Dangour A, Slotow R
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P. Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P. Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Sustainability. 2022 Mar 10;14(6):3280. doi: 10.3390/su14063280.
The Global Goals to end hunger requires interpretation of problems, and change across multiple domains. We facilitated a workshop aimed at understanding how stakeholders problematise sustainable diet transition (SDT) among a previously-marginalised social group. Using the systems thinking approach, three sub-systems, access to dietary diversity, sustainable beneficiation of natural capital, and 'food choice for well-being', highlighted the main forces governing the current context, and future interventions. Moreover, when viewed as co-evolving processes within the multi-level perspective, our identified microlevel leverage points - multi-faceted literacy, youth empowerment, deliberative policy-making, promotion of sustainable diet aspirations - can be linked and developed through existing national macrolevel strategies. Thus, by reconsidering knowledge use in the pursuit sustainability, transformational SDT can streamline multiple outcomes to restructure socio-technical sectors, reconnect people to nature-based solutions and, support legitimate aspirations. The approach could be applied in countries having complex socio-political legacy and to bridge the local-global goals coherently.
消除饥饿的全球目标需要对问题进行解读，并在多个领域进行变革。我们组织了一次研讨会，旨在了解利益相关者如何将可持续饮食转型（SDT）问题化，该社会群体此前处于边缘化地位。采用系统思维方法，三个子系统，即获得饮食多样性、自然资本的可持续选矿以及“促进健康的食物选择”，突出了当前背景和未来干预措施的主要驱动力。此外，当从多层次视角视为共同演化的过程时，我们确定的微观层面的杠杆点——多方面素养、青年赋权、协商性政策制定、促进可持续饮食愿望——可以通过现有的国家宏观层面战略加以联系和发展。因此，通过重新考虑追求可持续性过程中的知识运用，变革性的可持续饮食转型可以简化多个成果，以重组社会技术部门，使人们重新与基于自然的解决方案建立联系，并支持合理愿望。该方法可应用于具有复杂社会政治遗留问题的国家，并连贯地衔接地方与全球目标。
