Dissertations / Theses: 'Food systems actions'

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Portenstein, Pamela Mae. "BREAKING BREAD, SHAPING UNDERSTANDING: THE ECO-FOOD COMMUNITY AS COGNITIVE SYSTEM." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/184.

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In this thesis I employ insights from Conversation Analysis and Embodied Cognition Theory to examine the discursive practices of a group of interactants who operate in what I describe as a group cognitive system. While studies on embodied cognition have been done on both individuals and groups involved in various concrete physical tasks and situated cognition studies have been done on many types of socially situated conversations, my aim is to combine these two theoretical frameworks to observe people’s embodied interactions in informal everyday conversation as they engage in ongoing learning processes. My research question revolves around understanding how the group’s shared cognition unfolds and how new paradigms of thought and purpose are generated in the process of their interactional practices. I employ Conversation Analysis methodology in the collection and analysis of data with attention on how learners interact with each other and their environment via verbal communication. In addition, I focus on non-verbal embodied actions as they function to form a cognitive system where new realities are mentally simulated and brought to materiality via information feedback loops.

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Denison, Shelley M. "Food, Race, and Planning: A Critical Analysis of County Food Action Plans." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494003397106232.

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Porreca, Lori. "The Influence of Collective Action and Policy in the Development of Local Food Systems." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/713.

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The modern global agrifood system has had significant negative impacts on consumers and producers. This has precipitated the rise of local food systems that are purported to improve the health and livelihoods of consumers and producers. High expectations have led to significant public and private resources dedicated to the development of local food systems. Despite this, there has been little systematic research exploring the social and institutional conditions that facilitate or frustrate local food system development. Using a comparative case study approach, this study explored the ways local structural conditions, collective action, food system policies, and the political context affect the development of local food systems. Findings suggested truly robust local food system development requires either collective action or public policies and are more likely to exist and be successful depending on the political climate and the balance of power between land use interests in the community.

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Flamm, Laura Jayne. "Fair Food: Justice and Sustainability in Community Nutrition." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1270965544.

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Nordstrom, Karen Lynn. "Pedagogical Praxis Models in Sustainability Education: A Focus on Food Systems and Environment." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/390.

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As societies embrace notions of sustainability, there is an increasing interest in how to best educate students about these concepts. The field of sustainability education (SE) is an approach that has been developed to address this concern. SE frameworks seek to integrate into curricular contents and formats within campus learning environments, in order to systematically improve upon approaches and services developed to support student learning and development. My research offers insight into the relationships between the philosophical principles and praxes of sustainability education, with the aim to inform educators on how best to prepare students to address complex sustainability issues. I used three cases of University of Vermont courses and programs to explore theoretical and practical factors related to sustainability education and food systems, as follows: 1) a comparative analysis of Education for Sustainability (EfS) together with Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Education, 2) an integration of High Impact Educational Practices (HIEP) with the field of agroecology education, and 3) an in-depth program analysis that examined the role of HIEP in engaged learning alongside the EfS framework. I drew from two action research (AR) traditions that determine particular research methodologies for applied social research settings. The first is a systems approach to organizational learning, and the second is teacher research for curricular and program development. I also engaged in utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) with program stakeholders. Research methods included applied social and mixed methods associated with program evaluation. Three main research implications include: a) Agroecology education in experiential, immersion environments can serve as a primary vehicle for sustainability education; b) sequencing of food systems and sustainability curricula can lead to transformative learning; and c) AR and UFE can serve as tools for program development alongside sustainability education frameworks.

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Weekley, Paul. "Improving Sahelian food security through facilitating action learning networks : a case study among the Fulbe Jelgobe of Northern Burkina Faso /." [Richmond, N.S.W.} : Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030508.110110/index.html.

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Ishihara, Kengo. "Development of a swimming system for the evaluation of food compornents acting on endurance exercise capacity." Kyoto University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/157144.

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本文データは平成22年度国立国会図書館の学位論文(博士)のデジタル化実施により作成された画像ファイルを基にpdf変換したものである
Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(農学)
甲第8449号
農博第1133号
新制||農||803(附属図書館)
学位論文||H12||N3406(農学部図書室)
UT51-2000-F353
京都大学大学院農学研究科応用生命科学専攻
(主査)教授伏木亨, 教授松野隆一, 教授佐々木隆造
学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Wight, Robert. "Community Supported Agriculture as Public Education: Networked Communities of Practice Building Alternative Agrifood Systems." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427798047.

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Weekley, Paul. "Improving Sahelian food security through facilitating action learning : a case study among the Fulbe Jelgobe of Northern Burkina Faso." Thesis, [Richmond, N.S.W.} : Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/202.

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The Fulbe Jelgobe, like many other Sahelian pastoral groups, are becoming increasingly vulnerable to chronic food insecurity. They live in a landscape that exhibits a complex patchiness and extremely variable rainfall patterns. When their food security is threatened, the Fulbe Jelgobe act skillfully on the basis of local knowledge in employing a complex array of coping responses that seek to meet immediate food needs while preserving a base for future livelihood activity. These responses involve the manipulation of household asset portfolios, modifying household consumption patterns, access to common property resources and the activation of networks of social relationships. The reinforcement or enhancement of such responses is a credible means of improving food security. This thesis reports on an attempt to apply action research amongst the Fulbe Jelgobe in Northern Burkina Faso, focusing on case studies of action research in two Fulbe communities. These communities provide the context for understanding a particular food insecurity situation by taking action to improve it. The process was co-designed and co-managed by action research groups formed in both locations. These groups included diverse stakeholders who cooperated with me in learning how to contextualise the Participatory Action Research process to improving local food security. A third, general action research process is underpinned by ten years of previous experience in the area and ethnographic research that provides an understanding of the context for Fulbe subsistence strategies. While the process of participatory Action Research is perceived to be useful in such vulnerable livelihood contexts, the participatory process itself is viewed as problematic and frequently more partisan than many adherents to the process would accept. There is a complex web of motivations driving local stakeholders participation. Rather than extended dialogue aimed at achieving consensus, as many popular participatory approaches envisage, it is a matter of continually re-negotiating cooperation among stakeholders with diverse interests and capabilities in order to secure continuing participation in a heuristic learning process. Treating Fulbe agro-pastoralism holistically as social praxis, a locally managed Participatory Action Research process facilitated improved food security by reinforcing coping options and enhancing local organisational capacity to interface with development organisations. Participatory Action Research provided a framework for the design and management of food-for-work programs aimed at developing an infrastructure for dry-season gardening in both locations. The action research group in one location became the management committee of an association of some 80 people that was formally registered with the government under the name of Dewral. This association, which is still functioning, facilitates the cultivation of 25 hectares of lakeside gardens. These gardens are an important addition to the members' mix of food procuring activities.

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Vu, Amy. "A Case Study of a Beginner Gardening Program in North Carolina." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/63996.

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Food insecurity refers to the lack of reliable access to nutritious and affordable foods for people of all backgrounds (Meenar and Hoover, 2012) and is a problem faced by approximately 50 million Americans (Smith, 2011) and thirteen percent of North Carolina households. Food security and poverty have been directly linked and North Carolina's poverty rate (14.3%) is above the national level (13%) (Curtis, 2010). Community gardens have been recognized globally by many experts including health professionals, community organizers, environmental activists, and policymakers, as an "important contributor to economic development, food security, and environmental management"(Baker, 2004). Together, these professionals use gardens as a means to educate the public about food production and nutrition. Empirical research has documented many community garden benefits, however, the examination of educational programs associated with these gardens is limited. The purpose of this case study was to examine the development and implementation of a beginner gardening program and its influence on program participants in an area known to be food insecure within North Carolina. The researcher utilized multiple means of qualitative methods including: 1) semi-structured pre- and post- interviews with program coordinators and participants, 2) content analysis, 3) a reflection journal used to observe the program, and the facilitation of a 4) focus group with program participants. The findings revealed the challenges program coordinators encountered throughout the development and implementation, as well as the effects of the beginner gardening program on program participants.
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Giang, Nancy. "Overgrow the system| Dysphagia of plastic food and ecological fiction as environmental action in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596973.

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Writing about food and eating food are both environmental acts. The ways in which humans conceive of edible material—by speaking about it and growing it in the ground—are reflections of their view of the natural world.

Ecological fiction like Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest connects imagined visions of food with the current reality of our agricultural system in the United States. In both the fictitious narratives and lived experience, synthetic polymers overtake almost every aspect of life, including edible matter. The ubiquitous plasticization of food is one of the main causes of the current global environmental crisis.

Ultimately, the treatment of food in ecological fiction and in practice reveals our mistreatment of the environment and of our own bodies. Employing a systems-based way of thinking ecologically make visible the yet invisible lines of interconnection among the natural world, edible matter, and living beings.

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Runick, Alah Fru. "Agricultural trade under the multilateral trade system in sub-Saharan Africa: a South African perspective with lessons from Brazil." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9444_1367481569.

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Menck, Jessica Claire. "Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997.

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Alsaleh, Sultan Abdullah. "Investigating Riyadh's public health inspectors' ability to conduct risk-based food inspection, and their professional needs: A mixed-methods research study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208321/1/Sultan%20Abdullah%20R_Alsaleh_Thesis.pdf.

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Globally, the responsibilities of Food Safety Inspectors have dramatically evolved in recent times. The major change is the shift from a diagnostic and traditional food safety assessment role to a proactive and risk-based evaluation, resulting in better protection from foodborne illnesses. The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge and skills required by food inspectors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that will enable continuous improvement to food safety inspection practices by using proactive and risk-based evaluation methods. The result being that the implementation of more effective food inspection practices will result in the provision of safer food for consumers.

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Trocchia-Balkits, Lisa. "A Hipstory of Food, Love, and Chaosmos at the Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1499825960234156.

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Costa, Estela, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Modulation of the immune system in the mammalian intestine as an alternate explanation for the action of antimicrobial growth promoters / Estela Costa." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological Sciences, c2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2627.

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The novel hypothesis that antimicrobial growth promoters (AGP) function by modulating the mammalian immune system was tested. Sampling methods to characterize the mucosa-associated microbiota of the murine intestine by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis indicated that direct plug extraction was superior to wash methods. Using T-RFLP analysis, non-therapeutic administration of chlortetracycline (CTC) and sulfamethazine to beef cattle did not affect the composition of bacterial communities associated with intestinal mucosa and in digesta, with exception of those associated with mucosa of the proximal jejunum. Similarly, oral administration of non-therapeutic concentrations of CTC did not affect the mucosa-associated microbiota of the murine intestine. Oral administration of nontherapeutic concentrations of CTC prevented weight loss, reduced pathologic changes, modulated transcription levels of inflammatory cytokines in C. rodentium-infected mice, and did not consistently affect the colonic microbiota. These findings support the hypothesis that AGP primarily function by modulating the intestinal immune system.
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Lamalice, Annie. "Géographie du système alimentaire des Inuit du Nunavik : du territoire nourricier au supermarché." Thesis, Montpellier, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MONTG085.

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L’objectif principal de cette thèse est la caractérisation et l’analyse des transformations du système alimentaire des Inuit du Nunavik, et en particulier les enjeux soulevés à l’intersection des interactions humains-milieux, puis les conséquences encourues pour le bien-être et la santé des Inuit. Des pistes de solution pour améliorer la résilience du système alimentaire dans cette région nordique y sont explorées, dont la principale est le développement de projets de jardinage communautaire. La collecte des données pour réaliser les quatre articles qui forment le corps de cette thèse s’est échelonnée entre octobre 2015 et mars 2019 dans les villages nordiques de Kuujjuaq et Kangiqsujuaq, au Nunavik. Différentes méthodes ont été combinées, dont la principale se base sur les principes de la recherche-action participative. Les résultats illustrent que les aliments traditionnels issus des activités de chasse, de pêche et de cueillette demeurent des vecteurs importants de la relation au territoire et du bien-être inuit, malgré le fait qu’ils ne représentent plus qu’une fraction de la diète. La perte de mobilité et l’adoption d’un nouveau mode de vie, accompagnées et rendues possibles par la transition nutritionnelle, ont perturbé les interactions humains-milieux à différents niveaux. La plus grande pression exercée sur l'environnement naturel provient des activités humaines menées ailleurs sur la planète et d’un modèle de consommation incompatible qui génèrent de nombreuses externalités négatives sur l’environnement et la santé humaine. À travers leur alimentation, les Inuit du Nunavik sont dorénavant connectés au reste du monde par le biais du système alimentaire globalisé, dont les ramifications complexes couvrent toute la planète Or, au Nunavik, les défauts inhérents à la chaîne de production agroalimentaire globalisée s’expriment d’une façon bien singulière. L’intensification des liens entre économie inuit et économie globalisée concourt à placer les territoires nordiques dans une position d’échange inégal et de dépendance envers les producteurs et les fournisseurs d’un secteur agroalimentaire exogène au sein duquel les résidents du Nord ont peu d’occasions de se faire entendre. La souveraineté alimentaire à l’égard des aliments du marché est ainsi fortement limitée
The main objective of this thesis is the characterization and analysis of the transformations of the Nunavik Inuit food system, and particularly the issues raised at the intersection of human-environment interactions and their consequences for Inuit health and well-being. Possible solutions to improve the resilience of the food system in this northern region are explored, the main one being the development of community gardening projects. The collection of data to complete the four articles that make up the body of this thesis took place between October 2015 and March 2019 in the northern villages of Kuujjuaq and Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik. This research combines different methods, the main one being based on the principles of participatory action research. The results illustrate that traditional foods from hunting, fishing and gathering activities continue to be important drivers of Inuit’s well-being and relationship to the land, despite the fact that they are now consumed in smaller quantities. The loss of mobility and the adoption of a new way of life, accompanied and made possible by the nutritional transition, have disrupted human-environment interactions at different levels. The greatest pressure on the natural environment comes from human activities elsewhere in the world and from a pattern of inconsistent consumption that generates many negative externalities on the environment and human health. Through the food they eat, the Inuit are now connected to the rest of the world through the globalized food system, the complex ramifications of which cover the entire planet. In Nunavik, the defects inherent in the global agri-food production chain are expressed in a very singular way. The intensification of the links between the Inuit economy and the globalized economy contributes to placing the northern territories in a position of unequal exchange and dependence on the producers and suppliers of an exogenous agri-food sector in which northern residents have few opportunities to be heard. Food sovereignty over market foods is thus severely limited

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Gallien, Manon. "La résilience des Systèmes Alimentaires de qualité différenciée : approche pour la compréhension des dynamiques de protection de la qualité de l'eau en agriculture." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2067/document.

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En 2009, le Grenelle de l’environnement a ouvert en France la possibilité d’intégrer des clauses environnementales au sein des cahiers des charges d’Indications Géographiques (IG). Cette opportunité nouvelle intéresse fortement les Agences de l’eau qui cherchent de plus en plus à agir en amont à la source des pollutions agricoles. Dans ce contexte, cette étude interroge la manière dont certaines démarches de qualité alimentaire intègrent dans leur dynamique des objectifs de préservation de l’eau. Pour y répondre, nous avons développé une approche globale permettant de resituer les enjeux de qualité de l’eau dans ceux plus larges d’environnement. Nous avons également dépassé la seule analyse des cahiers des charges des IG pour considérer l’ensemble des actions en faveur de l’environnement dans lesquelles elles s’impliquent. Le cadre d’analyse développé, celui de la résilience des Systèmes Alimentaires (SA) de qualité différenciée répond à ce besoin d’élargissement. Il nous permet d’étudier les dynamiques environnementales engagées pour faire face à des perturbations liées à la dégradation des ressources naturelles dont l’eau. Il s’agit autant de perturbations factuelles, mesurées, que de perturbations représentées lorsque les acteurs envisagent un risque potentiel. Ce cadre d’analyse a été appliqué à la viticulture et à l’arboriculture dans le Sud-Est de la France. Les résultats montrent la complexité des dynamiques environnementales engagées : elles reposent toutes sur plusieurs actions complémentaires et supposent la présence d’acteurs clés ayant la capacité à engager une dynamique collective et à envisager les SA à la fois dans leur dimension verticale les liant au marché et dans leur dimension horizontale les insérant dans le territoire
In 2009, The Grenelle de l'Environnement (French environmental pact) introduced environmental clauses within Geographical Indications (GI) specifications. French Water agencies (agences de l’eau) perceive it as a good opportunity to address the issue of agricultural pollution, by takings actions at the upstream level. In this context, this study examines how certainfood quality processes are proactively setting targets for conserving water. This question led to develop a global approach in order to look at the issues of water quality from the wider angle of environmental preservation. It requires not only to focus on regulation tools of food quality products but also to take into account a larger set of environmental actions. Along the same lines, the theoretical framework of the resilience of food system of differentiated quality has also been developed. It allows to study proactive environmental dynamics set up by stakeholders to deal with perturbations linked to natural resources degradation, such as water. Those perturbations can be factual (measured) or represented, when stakeholders consider a potential risk. This analytical framework has been applied on case studies in viticulture and fruit production in the South-East of France. The results underscore the complexity of environmental dynamics: they are based on a set of complementary actions and require the mobilization of key players, able to engage in a collective dynamics but also to have a wider vision of food systems, both by looking at the vertical dimension (market oriented) and horizontal dimension (link with the local territory)

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Pokorná, Klára. "Systém procesních auditů v oblasti zdravotnického průmyslu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222735.

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The Master’s thesis deals with the area of conducting process audits in a large multinational corporation focused on manufacturing and distribution of medical devices, which has a subsidiary in the Czech Republic. The thesis discusses the analysis of the current set up of the internal audits‘ system in the corporation and there are changes of the quality system being proposed on the basis of the analysis, whose aim is to achieve a full compliance with the requirements of the US administration FDA, the standard ISO 13485 as well as the recent requirements on performing process audits. The emphasis is also put on the setting of the system such that it provides the highest possible added value for its users, can be easily implemented in practice and is flexible as well.

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Ferreira, Maria Eduarda Bruel de Salles. "Combining Scenario Workshops and Participatory System Dynamics Modelling to Study Food Security. A case study with farmers in Zambia." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/29986.

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Food security, which affects mainly developing countries, is a worldwide problem that has called the attention of the economic, political and scientific community. Achieving food security is a very complex process that involves not only the ability of farming but also a constant adaptation to natural phenomena, as for example, rainfall patterns. Limited knowledge and access to information and technologies, restrict the capacity of local farming communities to achieve food security. Furthermore, there is a lack of suitable methods and tools for involving stakeholders, such as farmers, in the development and assessment of food policies and their long-term system-wide effects. The main goal of this research is to investigate how the use of mixed-methods – scenarios and participatory System Dynamics (SD) modelling – are capable of improving understanding and an integrative view of food systems, serving as a lever for supporting food security decision-making processes. Additionally, this research aims to answer the following two questions: i) How can scenarios and participatory SD be used together to study plausible futures of food security involving smallholder farmers in developing countries?; ii) What are the possible policy pathways to avoid undesirable situations and to stimulate desirable ones, in a context of subsidence farming in Sub-Saharan African countries?. For this specific purpose, a group of smallholder farmers in Zambia was analyzed as a case study. First, a workshop was implemented in which a scenario of poor rainfall and no government help was developed. In order to achieve food security, participants had to find policy proposals and pathways to avoid or to overcome this undesired scenario. Subsequently, from the scenario workshop data, causal loop diagrams (CLD) were built using a systematic coding process. The next steps were to analyse policy proposals through a cross-impact analysis and develop an outline of pathways to study the complementarity and compatibility of such proposals. The 11 policy proposals were Charcoal Business; Livestock Business; Groundnuts Business; Gardening; Loan; Piecework; Land (productive land); Rental Business; Partnership; Legislation for Deforestation/Afforestation; and, Retention Basins/Drilling Boreholes. Finally, it was possible to design an innovative Action Plan that shows the pathways and the pace at which each proposal may achieve food security. It was concluded that scenario workshop and participatory SD may tightly coupled since these methods complement each other, stimulating system thinking and co-creation of knowledge. Scenario workshops are a disruptive and exploratory method, as it allows to elicit creative and plausible images from participants. Participatory SD supports decision-making processes by analysing policy proposals and its pathways, leading to the elaboration of joint action plans. In the Zambian case, from the 11 plausible policy proposals, it was found that Piecework enables a swifter path to achieve food security, while Rental Business would be the slowest. Additionally, it was found that some of the policy proposals could be reinforced if implemented together, while others, such as Charcoal Business and Legislation for Deforestation/Afforestation, did not show such potential. A follow-up survey with workshop participants showed that they were following the Action Plan, confirming the preference for the short-term policy proposal pathways.

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