Food systems are complex because many interacting processes and stakeholders are involved. They are dynamic because their outcomes unfold over time. I’ll start with a brief definition of system dynamics as well as of food systems: System dynamics is a… Read More »The role of system dynamics in food systems research
The increased occurrence of shocks is making it more and more difficult to provide food and nutrition security for everyone at all times . This is where resilience comes into play. Resilience, roughly understood as the ability of a system to absorb disturbances and… Read More »Musings on the resilience of food systems
In February 2015, we ran two intriguing and inspiring facilitated modeling workshops with ten small-scale farmers each in Central Region, Zambia, check out a brief video. These workshops were the logical next step after our work on studying farmers’ dynamic… Read More »Building and using simulation models with farmers on the ground
In terms of dynamic decision making on the small-scale farm household level, we are particularly interested in investigating small-scale farmers’ perceptions of the food system identifying the drivers of decisions made by small-scale farmers in the food system deriving factors… Read More »Studying farmers’ dynamic decision making