title: Food systems transition and disruptive low carbon innovation: implications for a food security research agenda.
abstract: There is a growing consensus that we are facing epochal challenges in global food security. Moreover, these challenges are multiple and complex. Meeting these challenges will involve nothing less than a wholesale socio-technical transition of the agri-food system. Optimizing the efficacy of the contribution of research to such a food security agenda will probably also need new institutional mechanisms and career structures to facilitate new kinds of collaborations and ongoing, longer-term projects. In short, the multiple challenges of food security demand a different political economy of research for effective intervention by science. In making this argument, the paper summarizes the major findings of a recent report regarding the potential impact of so-called 'disruptive' low-carbon innovations in China.
authors.affiliation: Sociology Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT, UK. d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tyfield
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D058572:Carbon Footprint; D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003906:Developing Countries; D005523:Food Supply; D011057:Politics; D012107:Research Design; D013672:Technology