Research on agro-food sustainability transitions: A systematic review of research themes and an analysis of research gaps

Avelino, 2016, The politics of sustainability transitions, J. Environ. Pol. Plann., 18, 557, 10.1080/1523908X.2016.1216782

Beers, 2014, Social learning inside and outside transition projects: playing free jazz for a heavy metal audience, NJAS - Wageningen J. Life Sci., 69, 5, 10.1016/j.njas.2013.10.001

Bhattarai, 2013, Patriarchal bargains in protected spaces: a new strategy for agricultural and rural development innovation in the western hills of Nepal, Can. J. Dev. Stud., 34, 461, 10.1080/02255189.2013.830967

Chiffoleau, 2016, From short food supply chains to sustainable agriculture in urban food systems: food democracy as a vector of transition, Agriculture, 6, 57, 10.3390/agriculture6040057

Clear, 2016, Bearing an Open “Pandora's Box”: HCI for reconciling everyday food and sustainability, ACM Trans. Comput. Interact., 23, 1, 10.1145/2970817

Coenen, 2012, Places and spaces of sustainability transitions: geographical contributions to an emerging research and policy field, Eur. Plann. Stud., 20, 367, 10.1080/09654313.2012.651802

Cohen, 2015, Transitioning the food system: a strategic practice management approach for cities, Environ. Innov. Soc. Transitions, 17, 199, 10.1016/j.eist.2015.01.003

Cretella, 2016, Food as creative city politics in the city of Rotterdam, Cities, 51, 1, 10.1016/j.cities.2015.12.001

Crivits, 2018, Discursive representation within the institutional void: the rise and fall of a governance network on sustainable food in Belgium, Sociol. Rural., 58, 475, 10.1111/soru.12162

Crivits, 2013, Designing an explanatory practice framework: local food systems as a case, J. Consum. Cult., 13, 306, 10.1177/1469540513484321

Davies, 2014, Co-creating sustainable eating futures: technology, ICT and citizen-consumer ambivalence, Futures, 62, 181, 10.1016/j.futures.2014.04.006

Davies, 2015, Transforming household consumption: from backcasting to HomeLabs experiments, Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr., 105, 425, 10.1080/00045608.2014.1000948

Dedeurwaerdere, 2017, The governance features of social enterprise and social network activities of collective food buying groups, Ecol. Econ., 140, 123, 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.018

Duru, 2014, A conceptual framework for thinking now (and organising tomorrow) the agroecological transition at the level of the territory, Cah. Agric., 23, 84, 10.1684/agr.2014.0691

El Bilali, 2018, Relation between innovation and sustainability in the agro-food system, Ital. J. Food Sci., 30, 200

Ely, 2016, Sustainable maize production and consumption in China: practices and politics in transition, J. Clean. Prod., 134, 259, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.001

Elzen

Elzen, 2004

European Environment Agency

European Environment Agency, 2016

Falcone, 2014, Sustainability transitions: a survey of an emerging field of research, Environ. Manag. Sustain. Dev., 3, 61, 10.5296/emsd.v3i2.6239

FAO

FAO, 2014

FAO, 2017

Fauchald, 2017, Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic, Int. J. Commons, 11, 275, 10.18352/ijc.698

Ferguson, 2016, Productivity growth as a barrier to a sustainability transition, Environ. Innov. Soc. Transitions, 20, 86, 10.1016/j.eist.2015.10.003

Foresight, 2011

Foxon, 2008, Managing the transition to renewable energy: theory and practice from local, regional and macro perspectives, Environ. Sci., 5, 286, 10.1080/15693430802469683

Freibauer, 2011

Garnett, 2014, Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment?, J. Clean. Prod., 73, 10, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.045

Geels, 2007, Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, Res. Pol., 36, 399, 10.1016/j.respol.2007.01.003

Gernert, 2018, Grassroots initiatives as sustainability transition pioneers: implications and lessons for urban food systems, Urban Sci, 2, 23, 10.3390/urbansci2010023

Ghaffari, 2015, Socio-economic support optimization for transition from conventional to organic farming using a spatiotemporal agent-based model, Int. J. Interdiscip. Environ. Stud., 8, 13, 10.18848/2329-1621/CGP/v08i3-4/53311

Gladek, 2016

Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 2016

Godfray, 2010, Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people, Science, 327, 812, 10.1126/science.1185383

Godfray, 2010, The future of the global food system, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 365, 2769, 10.1098/rstb.2010.0180

Gonzalez de Molina, 2013, Agroecology and politics. How to get sustainability? about the Necessity for a political agroecology, Agroecol. Sustain. Food Syst., 37, 45

Gopalan, 2001, Achieving household nutrition security in societies in transition: an overview. Asia Pac, J. Clin. Nutr., 10, 4

Grin, 2012, The politics of transition governance in Dutch agriculture. Conceptual understanding and implications for transition management, Int. J. Sustain. Dev., 15, 72, 10.1504/IJSD.2012.044035

Grin, 2010, Understanding transitions from a governance perspective, 223

Halbe, 2015, Governance of transitions towards sustainable development – the water–energy–food nexus in Cyprus, Water Int., 40, 877, 10.1080/02508060.2015.1070328

Hansen, 2017, Visions and expectations for the Norwegian bioeconomy, Sustainability, 9, 341, 10.3390/su9030341

Hansen, 2015, The geography of sustainability transitions: review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field, Environ. Innov. Soc. Transitions, 17, 92, 10.1016/j.eist.2014.11.001

Hargreaves, 2013, Up, down, round and round: connecting regimes and practices in innovation for sustainability, Environ. Plan., 45, 402, 10.1068/a45124

Hassink, 2013, Multifunctional agriculture meets health care: applying the multi-level transition sciences perspective to care farming in The Netherlands, Sociol. Rural., 53, 223, 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00579.x

Hassink, 2014, Farming with care: the evolution of care farming in The Netherlands, NJAS - Wageningen J. Life Sci., 68, 1, 10.1016/j.njas.2013.11.001

Hauser, 2017, Organic agriculture in post-war Uganda: emergence of pioneer-led niches between 1986 and 1993, Renew. Agric. Food Syst., 32, 169, 10.1017/S1742170516000132

Hermans, 2016, Scale dynamics of grassroots innovations through parallel pathways of transformative change, Ecol. Econ., 130, 285, 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.07.011

Hermans, 2013, Niches and networks: explaining network evolution through niche formation processes, Res. Pol., 42, 613, 10.1016/j.respol.2012.10.004

Hinrichs, 2014, Transitions to sustainability: a change in thinking about food systems change?, Agric. Hum. Val., 31, 143, 10.1007/s10460-014-9479-5

IFPRI, 2016

Immink, 2013, The livestock sector and its stakeholders in the search to meet the animal welfare requirements of society, J. Chain Netw. Sci., 13, 151, 10.3920/JCNS2013.1005

IPES-Food

Isgren, 2017, Agroecology to promote just sustainability transitions: analysis of a civil society network in the rwenzori region, western Uganda, Sustainability, 9, 1357, 10.3390/su9081357

Jacobs, 2017, Towards phosphorus sustainability in North America: a model for transformational change, Environ. Sci. Policy, 77, 151, 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.08.009

Jehlička, 2011, An unsustainable state: contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic, Geoforum, 42, 362, 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.01.005

Jurgilevich, 2016, Transition towards circular economy in the food system, Sustainability, 8, 1, 10.3390/su8010069

Kirwan, 2013, Grassroots social innovations and food localisation: an investigation of the Local Food programme in England, Glob. Environ. Chang., 23, 830, 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.004

Konefal, 2015, Governing sustainability transitions: multi-stakeholder initiatives and regime change in United States agriculture, Sustainability, 7, 612, 10.3390/su7010612

Kuhmonen, 2017, Exposing the attractors of evolving complex adaptive systems by utilising futures images: milestones of the food sustainability journey, Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, 114, 214, 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.08.015

Lachman, 2013, A survey and review of approaches to study transitions, Energy Policy, 58, 269, 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.013

Lang, 2009

Langendahl, 2016, Sustainable innovation journeys: exploring the dynamics of firm practices as part of transitions to more sustainable food and farming, Local Environ., 21, 105, 10.1080/13549839.2014.926869

Lawhon, 2012, Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions: insights from political ecology, Prog. Hum. Geogr., 36, 354, 10.1177/0309132511427960

Lebel, 2008, Places, chains, and plates: governing transitions in the shrimp aquaculture production-consumption system, Globalizations, 5, 211, 10.1080/14747730802057589

Levidow, 2015, European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: agroecological incorporation or contestation?, J. Rural Stud., 40, 76, 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.06.001

Levidow, 2014, Agroecological research: conforming—or transforming the dominant agro-food regime?, Agroecol. Sustain. Food Syst., 38, 1127, 10.1080/21683565.2014.951459

Levkoe, 2011, Towards a transformative food politics, Local Environ., 16, 687, 10.1080/13549839.2011.592182

Liu, 2016, Promoting sustainable consumption in China: a conceptual framework and research review, J. Clean. Prod., 134, 13, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.124

Loorbach, 2017, Sustainability transitions research: transforming science and practice for societal change, Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 42, 599, 10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021340

Loorbach, 2010

Manuel-Navarrete, 2012, Feeding the world sustainably: knowledge governance and sustainable agriculture in the Argentine Pampas, Environ. Dev. Sustain., 14, 321, 10.1007/s10668-011-9326-4

Markard, 2012, Sustainability transitions: an emerging field of research and its prospects, Res. Pol., 41, 955, 10.1016/j.respol.2012.02.013

Marsden, 2013, From post-productionism to reflexive governance: contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures, J. Rural Stud., 29, 123, 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.10.001

Maye, 2018, Examining innovation for sustainability from the bottom up: an analysis of the permaculture community in England, Sociol. Rural., 58, 331, 10.1111/soru.12141

Meek, 2016, The cultural politics of the agroecological transition, Agric. Hum. Val., 33, 275, 10.1007/s10460-015-9605-z

Minh, 2014, Niche action and system harmonization for institutional change: prospects for demand-driven agricultural extension in Vietnam, J. Rural Stud., 36, 273, 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.09.008

Moher, 2009, Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement, PLoS Med., 6, 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097

Moragues-Faus, 2015, Reframing the foodscape: the emergent world of urban food policy, Environ. Plan., 47, 1558, 10.1177/0308518X15595754

Moraine, 2016, Co-design and assessment of cropping systems for developing crop-livestock integration at the territory level, Agric. Syst., 147, 87, 10.1016/j.agsy.2016.06.002

Mylan, 2016, Re-introducing consumption to the ‘circular economy’: a sociotechnical analysis of domestic food provisioning, Sustainability, 8, 794, 10.3390/su8080794

O'Rourke, 2015, Transforming consumption: from decoupling, to behavior change, to system changes for sustainable consumption, Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 40, 233, 10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021224

OECD

Paddock, 2017, Household consumption and environmental change: rethinking the policy problem through narratives of food practice, J. Consum. Cult., 17, 122, 10.1177/1469540515586869

Pant, 2014, Adaptive transition management for transformations to agricultural sustainability in the Karnali Mountains of Nepal, Agroecol. Sustain. Food Syst., 38, 1156, 10.1080/21683565.2014.942022

Partzsch, 2017, Biofuel research: perceptions of power and transition, Energy. Sustain. Soc., 7, 14, 10.1186/s13705-017-0116-1

Pitt, 2016, Scaling up and out as a pathway for food system transitions, Sustainability, 8, 1025, 10.3390/su8101025

Prasad, 2016, Innovating at the margins: the system of rice intensification in India and transformative social innovation, Ecol. Soc., 21, 10.5751/ES-08718-210407

Quist, 2011, The impact and spin-off of participatory backcasting: from vision to niche, Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, 78, 883, 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.01.011

Raman, 2014, Biofuels and the role of space in sustainable innovation journeys, J. Clean. Prod., 65, 224, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.057

Randelli, 2017, Analysing the role of consumers within technological innovation systems: the case of alternative food networks, Environ. Innov. Soc. Transitions, 25, 94, 10.1016/j.eist.2017.01.001

Rodríguez Morales, 2017, The political economy of bioenergy in the United States: a historical perspective based on scenarios of conflict and convergence, Energy Res. Soc. Sci., 27, 141, 10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.002

Rosin, 2017, From compliance to co-production: emergent forms of agency in Sustainable Wine Production in New Zealand, Environ. Plan., 49, 2780, 10.1177/0308518X17733747

Rossi, 2017, Beyond food provisioning: the transformative potential of grassroots innovation around food, Agriculture, 7, 6, 10.3390/agriculture7010006

Rotmans, 2001, More evolution than revolution: transition management in public policy, Foresight, 3, 15, 10.1108/14636680110803003

Santhanam-Martin, 2015, Community sustainability and agricultural landscape change: insights into the durability and vulnerability of the productivist regime, Sustain. Sci., 10, 207, 10.1007/s11625-014-0268-2

Scoones, 2015

Searchinger, 2013

Sherwood, 2014, Dynamics of perpetuation: the politics of keeping highly toxic pesticides on the market in Ecuador, Nat. Cult., 9, 21, 10.3167/nc.2014.090102

Shove, 2007, Caution! Transitions ahead: politics, practice, and sustainable transition management, Environ. Plan., 39, 763, 10.1068/a39310

Slingerland, 2014, Jatropha developments in Mozambique: analysis of structural conditions influencing niche-regime interactions, Sustainability, 6, 7541, 10.3390/su6117541

Smith, 2007, Stories around food, politics and change in Poland and the Czech Republic, Trans. Inst. Br. Geogr., 32, 395, 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00258.x

Smith, 2010, Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: the allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges, Res. Pol., 39, 435, 10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.023

Stahlbrand, 2016, The food for life catering mark: implementing the sustainability transition in university food procurement, Agriculture, 6, 46, 10.3390/agriculture6030046

STRN

Sustainability Transitions Research Network

Sustainability Transitions Research Network

Truffer, 2017, Transition studies: a PhD guide into the wild

Truffer, 2015, The geography of sustainability transitions: contours of an emerging theme, Environ. Innov. Soc. Transitions, 17, 63, 10.1016/j.eist.2015.07.004

Twine, 2015, Understanding snacking through a practice theory lens, Sociol. Health Illness, 37, 1270, 10.1111/1467-9566.12310

Tyfield, 2015, Low carbon innovation in China: from overlooked opportunities and challenges to transitions in power relations and practices, Sustain. Dev., 23, 206, 10.1002/sd.1588

UNEP, 2016

UNEP

van den Heiligenberg, 2017, A habitat for sustainability experiments: success factors for innovations in their local and regional contexts, J. Clean. Prod., 169, 204, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.177

van Gameren, 2015, Towards a governance of sustainable consumption transitions: how institutional factors influence emerging local food systems in Belgium, Local Environ., 20, 874, 10.1080/13549839.2013.872090

Vinnari, 2014, A framework for sustainability transition: the case of plant-based diets, J. Agric. Environ. Ethics, 27, 369, 10.1007/s10806-013-9468-5

Vittersø, 2015, The role of consumers in transitions towards sustainable food consumption. The case of organic food in Norway, J. Clean. Prod., 92, 91, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.055

Vivero-Pol, 2017, Food as commons or commodity? Exploring the links between normative valuations and agency in food transition, Sustainability, 9, 442, 10.3390/su9030442

von Grebmer, 2014, 2014 global hunger index: the challenge of hidden hunger

Wonneck, 2017, Practice-based spillover effects: evidence from Calgary's municipal food and yard waste recycling pilot, Can. Geogr., 61, 415, 10.1111/cag.12391

WHO, 2014

WHO

WWF, 2016

WWW-UK, 2013