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Implications and impacts of aligning regional agriculture with a healthy diet (2024)
Journal Article
Sharp, R. T., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Clear, A., Mitchell Finnigan, S., Furness, E., Meador, E., …Milne, A. E. (2024). Implications and impacts of aligning regional agriculture with a healthy diet. Journal of Cleaner Production, 449, Article 141375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141375

One of the most intractable challenges currently facing agricultural systems is the need to produce sufficient food for all to enjoy a healthy balanced diet while minimising impacts to the environment. Balancing these competing goals is especially in... Read More about Implications and impacts of aligning regional agriculture with a healthy diet.

Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, A., Bridle, S., Denby, K., Bhunnoo, R., Morton, D., Stanbrough, L., …Whiteside, K. (2023). Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation. Sustainability, 15(20), Article 14783. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014783

We report the results of a structured expert elicitation to identify the most likely types of potential food system disruption scenarios for the UK, focusing on routes to civil unrest. We take a backcasting approach by defining as an end-point a soci... Read More about Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation.

The role of the state for managing voluntary food sustainability standards democratically (2023)
Journal Article
Sanderson Bellamy, A., Gomes, M., Mülling Neutzling, D., & Kumar, V. (2023). The role of the state for managing voluntary food sustainability standards democratically. Journal of Rural Studies, 103, Article 103126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103126

We have investigated the role of the state in the creation of democratic alternatives to private voluntary food sustainability standards (VFSS). Our study illustrates the complex relationship between civil society (in this case, the Participatory Gua... Read More about The role of the state for managing voluntary food sustainability standards democratically.

Putting food in the driver’s seat: Aligning food-systems policy to advance sustainability, health, and security (2023)
Journal Article
Andrews, E., Sanderson Bellamy, A., & Food Policy Alliance Cymru. (2023). Putting food in the driver’s seat: Aligning food-systems policy to advance sustainability, health, and security. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, Article 1204194. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1204194

Food is a basic need, but seldom a basic policy area. Food systems are widely governed by disconnected policies distributed across a range of sectors including agriculture, education, health, environment, economy, and security. Failure to align food... Read More about Putting food in the driver’s seat: Aligning food-systems policy to advance sustainability, health, and security.

Building relationships back into the food system: Addressing food insecurity and food well-being (2023)
Journal Article
Verfuerth, C., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Adlerova, B., & Dutton, A. (2023). Building relationships back into the food system: Addressing food insecurity and food well-being. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, Article 1218299. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1218299

Introduction: Failures of the current food system sit at the core of the multitude of crises by being the root framework for both consumption choices and food production. Low-income households are disproportionately affected by these failures, impact... Read More about Building relationships back into the food system: Addressing food insecurity and food well-being.

Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets (2023)
Journal Article
Sanderson Bellamy, A., Furness, E., Mills, S., Clear, A., Finnigan, S. M., Meador, E., …Sharp, R. T. (2023). Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, Article 1160627. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1160627

Globally, about 21–37% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to food systems. Dietary-related non-communicable diseases have increased significantly from 1990–2019 at a global scale. To achieve carbon emissions targets, increase re... Read More about Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets.

Communication and building social capital in community supported agriculture (2022)
Journal Article
Furness, E., Bellamy, A. S., Clear, A., Finnigan, S. M., Meador, J. E., Mills, S., …Sharp, R. T. (2022). Communication and building social capital in community supported agriculture. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(1), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.121.009

Community supported agriculture (CSA) schemes (programs) provide an alternative means for obtaining produce, through direct purchase from farms. They are also often driven by a vision of transforming the current mainstream food system and seek to bui... Read More about Communication and building social capital in community supported agriculture.

Celebrating Excellence (2022)
Physical Artefact
Adukwu, E., Airey, A., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Okeyoyin, O., & Savvantoglou, A. Celebrating Excellence. [Booklet constructed using the 'Canva' software]. UWE Bristol

Inspiring Stories of Excellence: A Showcase of Black Heritage Professionals in the College of Health, Science & Society at UWE Bristol Black History Month (BHM) presents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements and history of Black people and... Read More about Celebrating Excellence.

Food system resilience: Concepts, issues, and challenges (2022)
Journal Article
Zurek, M., Ingram, J., Bellamy, A. S., Goold, C., Lyon, C., Alexander, P., …Withers, P. J. (2022). Food system resilience: Concepts, issues, and challenges. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744

Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions to frame food system resilience (Resilience of what? Resilience to what?... Read More about Food system resilience: Concepts, issues, and challenges.

COVID-19: Understanding novel pathogens in coupled social–ecological systems (2022)
Journal Article
Baker, S., Bruford, M. W., MacBride-Stewart, S., Essam, A., Nicol, P., & Sanderson Bellamy, A. (2022). COVID-19: Understanding novel pathogens in coupled social–ecological systems. Sustainability, 14(18), 11649. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811649

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the spread of COVID-19 is explored using a social-ecological systems (SES) framework. From an SES perspective, the pandemic is the outcome of feedback loops and cascading interactions within an anthropologically distur... Read More about COVID-19: Understanding novel pathogens in coupled social–ecological systems.

Making community-scale food systems more resilient: Reorienting consumption practices by supporting community-scale supply chain models (2022)
Report
Sanderson Bellamy, A. (2022). Making community-scale food systems more resilient: Reorienting consumption practices by supporting community-scale supply chain models. Global Food Security Programme

Food insecurity increased in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic due to affordability challenges with job loss and accessibility problems related to lockdowns and uneven food distribution. Community-scale organisations played a crucial role in provid... Read More about Making community-scale food systems more resilient: Reorienting consumption practices by supporting community-scale supply chain models.

Ambio fit for the 2020s (2022)
Journal Article
Andersson, E., Boonstra, W. J., de la Torre Castro, M., Hughes, A. C., Ilstedt, U., Jernelöv, A., …Söderström, B. (2022). Ambio fit for the 2020s. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 51(5), 1091-1093. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01710-6

Environmental challenges and the way we frame and research them are changing, as are the channels for successful transfer of scientific knowledge into decision-making. In a time when novelty is often the beacon leading funding, research and publicati... Read More about Ambio fit for the 2020s.

A framework for ecosystem resilience in policy and practice: DECCA (2021)
Journal Article
Latham, J., Spode, S., Ayling, S., Thomas, R., Lindenbaum, K., & Bellamy, A. S. (2021). A framework for ecosystem resilience in policy and practice: DECCA. Ecology and Society, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12865-260431

Ecosystem resilience is increasingly considered within political responses to environmental problems, and is a key element of recent environmental legislation in Wales. The actual mechanisms of ecosystem resilience are complex, making it difficult, f... Read More about A framework for ecosystem resilience in policy and practice: DECCA.

Seeds of change: Establishing frameworks for understanding global environmental changes: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Agricultural land use (2021)
Journal Article
Sanderson Bellamy, A. (2021). Seeds of change: Establishing frameworks for understanding global environmental changes: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Agricultural land use. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 50(7), 1281-1285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01509-x

Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Sanderson Bellamy, A., Furness, E., Nicol, P., Pitt, H., & Taherzadeh, A. (2021). Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 50, 782-793. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01532-y

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in global food systems, as well as opening windows of opportunity for innovation and transformation. While the nature and extent of this crisis is rare, extreme climatic events will increase in magnitu... Read More about Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.