Conti, Costanza;
Hall, Andrew;
Kok, Kristiaan;
Olsson, Per;
Moore, Michele-Lee;
Kremen, Claire;
Laila, Amar;
... Fanzo, Jessica; + view all
(2025)
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty.
One Earth
, 8
(2)
, Article 101178. 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101178.
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Abstract
A just food system transformation is imperative to meet this century’s goals of environmental sustainability, economic fairness, and equitable social well-being. While considerations of justice are beginning to inform food system transformation debates, there remains a lack of conceptual and practical integration of these two historically separate disciplinary perspectives. This perspective therefore proposes the just transformation matrix (JUSTRA), which integrates justice and transformation concerns using an interrogative approach. Interrogatives probe the historical, present, and future intersections of justice with specific food system elements. If used conscientiously, the JUSTRA can assist a wide spectrum of food system actors in strategizing, implementing, and monitoring just food system transformations. It can also help stakeholders to more thoughtfully engage with power imbalances both among users and in the broader food system more broadly—if used “in bona fides.” Thus, while further testing is necessary to fully realize the potential of the JUSTRA, the matrix can become a powerful tool in multi-stakeholder dialogues to navigate unpredictable, diverse, and power-laden complexities of just food system transformations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101178 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101178 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | food system transformation, context-specific pathways to sustainability, justice, interrogative approach, just food systems |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205242 |
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