A compilation of foundational literature on food systems, created by Adam Calo with the help of the FIG at Radboud and the Agroecologie Netwerk.

Who feeds the world, and is this the right question?

• Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z., Wittman, H., James, D., & Ramankutty, N. (2021). Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability, 4(7), 651-657.****
• Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L., & Chookolingo, B. (2018). How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?. Global food security, 17, 64-72.
• Smallholders produce one-third of the world’s food, less than half of what many headlines claim. Our World in Data.
• Small farmers and peasants still feed the world, ETC group publication
• Can small farmers feed the world? [Blog Post, Offshoot]
• Kremen, C. (2015). Reframing the land‐sparing/land‐sharing debate for biodiversity conservation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1355(1), 52-76.
• Land sparers feel their oats [Blog Post, Land Food Nexus]
• Tomlinson, I. (2013). Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion: a critical perspective on a key discourse of food security in the UK. Journal of rural studies, 29, 81-90.
• Vivero Pol, J. L. (2015). Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world. Available at SSRN 2548928.
• Ponisio, L. C., M'Gonigle, L. K., Mace, K. C., Palomino, J., De Valpine, P., & Kremen, C. (2015). Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1799), 20141396.
• Patel, R. (2013). The Long Green Revolution. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 40(1), 1–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.719224
• Harwood, J. (2019). Was the Green Revolution intended to maximise food production? International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2019.1637236
• Kerr, R. B., Madsen, S., Stüber, M., Liebert, J., Enloe, S., Borghino, N., ... & Wezel, A. (2021). Can agroecology improve food security and nutrition? A review. Global Food Security, 29, 100540.
• Gugganig, M., Burch, K.A., Guthman, J. et al. Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue. Agric Hum Values 40, 787–798 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10493-9
• Giller, K.E., Delaune, T., Silva, J.V. et al. The future of farming: Who will produce our food?. Food Sec. 13, 1073–1099 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-021-01184-6

Underlying drivers of problems in the food system

• Holt Giménez, E., & Shattuck, A. (2011). Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation?. The Journal of peasant studies, 38(1), 109-144.