Reinventing sustainable food security: A problem structuring method.

The perceived roles of agriculture and food security have changed over the last few decades. Agriculture is perceived as an integral part of interconnected value chains not only of our economies but also social and environmental issue. In response, most governments around the world are now actively developing policies to support food security and add more value to food industry. This increases the expectations that society and governments have in terms of agriculture's services and performance: agriculture is not only expected to generate food to feed our growing populations, but also maintain socio-economic aspect, promote healthy society and sustainable environment. The author perceives that analyzing food security within sustainability framework will enhance a wider perspective to investigate other related sectors or aspects that inter-connected with it, for instance future supply-demand model, impact of agriculture activities to environment, general welfare, economy development, participation of society, and so on. Sustainability framework also addresses institution, regulation and stakeholders' involvement in order to ensure their capacity and participation align with target achievement. Therefore, this research aims to create a framework to pursue sustainable food security goal by employing system thinking approach to address the whole big picture of food security system thus understanding root cause of the problems. By employing VOSviewer software, the author conducts a bibliographic analysis to visualize network data in the form of maps from bibliographic database files. Then using Soft System Methodology, we ask set of questions that consist of problem expressed, self-opinion towards their own role and the involved stakeholders in food security development, and important issues to solve immediately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]