Governança para a sustentabilidade do sistema alimentar / Governance for food system sustainability / Gobernanza para la sostenibilidad del sistema alimentario

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify studies related to food system governance, investigating how authors have approached the topic worldwide, bringing theoretical and practical reflections on it. An integrative literature review was conducted by searching the Capes Journals platform using the keywords food system governance and sustainability in English and Portuguese, and 34 articles were found. These articles were grouped in order to identify the diversity of types of governance in the SA, theoretical and methodological perspectives, and movements/actors of change. Among the types, there are neoliberal market governance systems projected with incremental technologies and social governance systems based on rights, proposing more radical transformations. Theories such as the multilevel perspective have been proposed to analyze the transition to sustainability, and authors have gathered a set of criteria to methodologically analyze governance. Movements of change were analyzed based on their ideals, type/group of actors, problems, and strategies. There are few Brazilian studies, which indicates the importance of academia in providing more in-depth support for these discussions, providing policies and transformations that mitigate climate crises.