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Implications and impacts of aligning regional agriculture with a healthy diet (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

COVID-19: Understanding novel pathogens in coupled social–ecological systems (2022)
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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.

A framework for ecosystem resilience in policy and practice: DECCA (2021)
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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.

Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
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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.

Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept (2019)
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Alonso Roldán, V., Galván, D. E., Lopes, P. F., López, J., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Gallego, F., …Góngora, M. E. (2019). Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept. Ecosystem Services, 38, 100966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100966

The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) highlights that human wellbeing depends on nature and is a ‘whole system aware’ view. Land-sea systems are examples of complex systems including interfaces that can be perceived as boundaries, overlooking connec... Read More about Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept.

Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries (2018)
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Dunkley, R., Baker, S., Constant, N., & Sanderson-Bellamy, A. (2018). Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 18(6), 779-799. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-018-9415-z

The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It h... Read More about Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries.

Insect community composition and functional roles along a tropical agricultural production gradient (2018)
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Bellamy, A. S., Svensson, O., van den Brink, P. J., Gunnarsson, J., & Tedengren, M. (2018). Insect community composition and functional roles along a tropical agricultural production gradient. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(14), 13426-13438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-1818-4

High intensity agricultural production systems are problematic not only for human health and the surrounding environment, but can threaten the provision of ecosystem services on which farm productivity depends. This research investigates the effects... Read More about Insect community composition and functional roles along a tropical agricultural production gradient.

Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems (2017)
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Sanderson Bellamy, A., & Ioris, A. A. R. (2017). Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems. Sustainability, 9(3), 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030330

Today’s society faces many challenges when it comes to food production: producing food sustainably, producing enough of it, distributing food, consuming enough calories, consuming too many calories, consuming culturally-appropriate foods, and reducin... Read More about Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems.

Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition (2017)
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Svensson, O., Bellamy, A. S., Van den Brink, P. J., Tedengren, M., & Gunnarsson, J. S. (2018). Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(14), 13373-13381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-8248-y

In Costa Rica, considerable effort goes to conservation and protection of biodiversity, while at the same time agricultural pesticide use is among the highest in the world. Several protected areas, some being wetlands or marine reserves, are situated... Read More about Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition.

What is in a label? Rainforest-Alliance certified banana production versus non-certified conventional banana production (2016)
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Bellamy, A. S., Svensson, O., van den Brink, P. J., & Tedengren, M. (2016). What is in a label? Rainforest-Alliance certified banana production versus non-certified conventional banana production. Global Ecology and Conservation, 7, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2016.05.002

Export banana production in Latin America is pesticide intensive, receiving much negative publicity regarding human health problems and environmental degradation. The Rainforest Alliance (RA) certification scheme was established to certify farms that... Read More about What is in a label? Rainforest-Alliance certified banana production versus non-certified conventional banana production.

Banana production systems: Identification of alternative systems for more sustainable production (2012)
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Bellamy, A. S. (2013). Banana production systems: Identification of alternative systems for more sustainable production. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 42(3), 334-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-012-0341-y

Large-scale, monoculture production systems dependent on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, increase yields, but are costly and have deleterious impacts on human health and the environment. This research investigates variations in banana productio... Read More about Banana production systems: Identification of alternative systems for more sustainable production.

Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: Is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers? (2010)
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Bellamy, A. S. (2011). Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: Is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers?. Agriculture and Human Values, 28(2), 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-010-9261-2

This paper presents research conducted during two coffee farming seasons in Costa Rica. The study examined coffee farmers’ weed management practices and is presented in the form of a case study of small-scale farmers’ use of labor and herbicides in w... Read More about Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: Is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers?.