Dr Angelina Sanderson Bellamy's Outputs (23)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Food system resilience: Concepts, issues, and challenges (2022)
Journal Article

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

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.

Ambio fit for the 2020s (2022)
Journal Article

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

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.

The role of community-supported agriculture in building health and sustainability into UK diets: A mixed methods study (2021)
Journal Article

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

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

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)
Journal Article

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.

Profit and hegemony in agribusiness (2018)
Journal Article

The insidious control over farming practices exercised by seed companies is an example of how powerful actors in the agri-food system promote profit over environment and health. More important, is the question of how we can shape a more desirable far... Read More about Profit and hegemony in agribusiness.

Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries (2018)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.