Publications about the just food transition

Read our policy recommendations for just food system transition:

• Policy recommendations for just food system transition - Just Food Policy Brief Part 2 October 2022 (issuu.com)
• Policy recommendations for just food system transition - Just Food Policy Brief October 2020 (issuu.com)

 

Just Food brochure

• Just food project brochure (pdf)

Policy recommendations

• Policy recommendations for just food system transition - Just Food Policy Brief Part 2 October 2022 (issuu.com)
• Policy recommendations for just food system transition - Just Food Policy Brief October 2020 (issuu.com)
• School Meals 2030 - How to halve the climate impact (pdf)
• Soil as part of climate solution – agricultural policy reform to promote climate-smart agriculture (luke.fi)

Popular publications

Just Food Blog

• Just food Blog - project's own blogs (some in Finnish, some in English)

Just Food Podcast

• Ruoka murroksessa - project's own podcast (mostly in Finnish)
• Ruoka murroksessa - podcast, Episode 6 - How to build a just food system in a climate change situation?

Videos

• Videos from the Just food project
• More videos in Finnish

Other publications to general public:

• Niemimaa, V., Kaljonen, M., Kivimaa, P. 2021. Just transition is embodied in the “Leave no one behind” principle. Good governance, National Audit office. 8.9.2021.
• Paula Kivimaa, Suvi Huttunen, Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Milja Heikkinen, Sirkku Juhola, Minna Kaljonen, Jukka Käyhkö, Peter Lund & Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi 2021. How to consider justice in climate policy? Discussion paper. The Finnish Climate Change Panel, Publication 5/2021
• School Meals 2030 - How to halve the climate impact (pdf)
• Eeva Furman ja Minna Kaljonen: Sustainable diets enhance progress in all Sustainable Developmental Goals, UN Chronicle 16.10.2019
• More popular publications in Finnish

Scientific publications

• Huttunen, S., Tykkyläinen, R., Kaljonen, M., Kortetmäki, T., & Paloviita, A. (2024). Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland. Environmental Policy and Governance, 1–13.
• Action-oriented knowledge for sustainable management of organic soils in Finnish agriculture. Huan-Niemi, Ellen; Huttunen, Suvi; Paloviita, Ari; Puupponen, Antti; Lehtonen, Heikki & Niemi, Jyrki. Agricultural and Food Science, 32(2023).
• Justice in Finnish Food Policies. Puupponen, Antti; Huttunen, Suvi; Kortetmäki, Teea; Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Anu & Kaljonen, Minna. Food Ethics 8, 6(2023).
• S. Maluf, R., Burlandy, L., P. Cintrão, R., Jomalinis, E., Santarelli, M. & Tribaldos, T. 2022. Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 
• S. Maluf, R., Burlandy, L., P. Cintrão, R., Jomalinis, E., C.O. Carvalho, T. & Tribaldos, T. 2022. Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 45 (2022), 183-199.  
• Toikkanen, J., Halme, P., Kahanpää, J. & Toivonen, M. 2022. Effects of landscape composition on hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in mass-flowering crop fields within forest-dominated landscapes. Journal of Insect Conservation.
• Lehtonen, H., Huan-Niemi, E. & Niemi, J. 2022. The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 44(2022).
• Huttunen, S., Kaljonen, M., Turunen, A. 2022. Participation for just sustainability transition governance - lessons from food systems. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 
• Toivonen, M., Huusela, E., Hyvönen, T., Marjamäki, P., Järvinen, A., Kuussaari, M. 2022. Effects of crop type and production method on arable biodiversity in boreal farmland. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 337, 108061. 
• Tribaldos, T., Kortetmäki, T. 2022. Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond. Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions 40, 474-485.
• Kortetmäki, T. 2022. Agriculture and climate change: Ethical considerations. Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Nonhuman Biotechnology ECNH publication series.
• Valsta LM, Tapanainen H, Kortetmäki T, Sares-Jäske L, Paalanen L, Kaartinen NE, Haario P, Kaljonen M. 2022. Disparities in Nutritional Adequacy of Diets between Different Socioeconomic Groups of Finnish Adults. Nutrients. 2022; 14(7):1347.
• Kaljonen, M., Ott, A., Huttunen, S., Lonkila, A. Kuusela J. 2022. Policy mixes for more vital legume value chains: evaluation across competing policy frames. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 
• Puupponen, A., Lonkila, A., Savikurki, A., Karttunen, K., Huttunen, S., Ott, A. 2022. Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming. Journal of Rural Studies 90, 104–112.
• Sares-Jäske L, Valsta L, Haario P, Martelin T. 2021. Population group differences in subjective importance of meat in diet and red and processed meat consumption. Appetite. 2021 Dec 3:105836. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34871587.
• Salo, M., Savolainen, H., Karhinen, S., Nissinen, A. 2021. Drivers of household consumption expenditure and carbon footprints in Finland. Journal of Cleaner Production 289, 125607.
• Kaila, L., Ketola, J., Toivonen, M., Loukola, O., Hakala, K., Raiskio, S., Hurme, T., Jalli, M. 2021. Pesticide residues in honeybee-collected pollen: does the EU regulation protect honeybees from pesticides? Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
• Lonkila, A., Kaljonen, M. 2022. Ontological struggle over new product category: transition potential of meat alternatives. Environment Innovation and Societal Transitions 42, 1-11.
• Lähteenmäki-Uutela, A., Lonkila, A., Huttunen, S., Grmelová, N. 2021. Legal rights of private property owners vs. sustainability transitions? Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 323, 129179.
• Kaljonen, M., Kortetmäki, T., Tribaldos, T., Huttunen, S., Karttunen, K., Maluf, R.S., Niemi, J. Saarinen, M., Salminen, J., Vaalavuo, M., Valsta, L. 2021. Justice in transitions: widening considerations of justice in dietary transition. Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions 40, 474-485
• Toivonen, M., Karimaa, A.-E., Herzon, I., Kuussaari, M. 2022. Flies are important pollinators of mass-flowering caraway and respond to landscape and floral factors differently from honeybees. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 323, 107698. 
• Toivonen, M., Herzon, I., Toikkanen, J., Kuussaari, M. 2021. Linking pollinator occurrence in field margins to pollinator visitation to a mass-flowering crop. Journal of Pollination Ecology 28, 153–166.
• Morris, C., M. Kaljonen, E. Hadley-Kershaw. 2021. Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the making of a dietary biopolitical project. The Geographical Journal 2021; 1-12.
• Llanque, A., Jacobi, J., Tribaldos, T., Mukhovi, S., Silvestre, C., Tecchio, A., Fernandez, L., Delgado, F., Kiteme, B., Maluf, R., Bessa, A., Speranza, C. I., & Rist, S. (2021). Transformations Towards Food Sustainability Using the Participatory Food Sustainability Assessment Framework (FoodSAF). Social Innovations Journal, 5.
• Paloviita, A. (2021). Developing a matrix framework for protein transition towards more sustainable diets. British Food Journal 123 (13), 73-87.
• Huttunen, S. (2021). Socio-cultural lock-ins and the difficulty of sustainability transition in fertilization – Response to Struckman. Nordia Geographical Publications, 49(5), 102-106.
• Tribaldos, T. and S. Rist (in press). Connecting human health to nature health? The bridging potential of sustainable food systems. The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. S. C. Scrimshaw, S. D. Lane, R. A. Rubinstein and J. Fisher. London, UK, Sage Publications Ltd.
• Salles-Costa; Ferreira, A; Castro, PC; Burlandy L. (2020). Food Systems, Hunger and Food Insecurity in Brazil. Editora Fiocruz.
• Maluf R., Burlandy L., Alexandre V. P. (2020) Research on Sovereignty and Food and Nutrition Security in Brazil: approaches and connections with public policies In: The Brazilian contribution to sustainable Food and Nutrition security 1 ed. Porto Alegre: UFRGS, p. 137-154.
• Lonkila, A. & Kaljonen M. (2021). Promises of meat and milk alternatives – an integrative literature review on emergent research themes. Agriculture and Human Values, forthcoming
• Kortetmäki, T. & Oksanen, M. (2020). Is there a convincing case for climate veganism? Agriculture and Human Values.
• Jacobi, J., Mukhovi, S., Llanque, A. et al. (2020). A new understanding and evaluation of food sustainability in six different food systems in Kenya and Bolivia. Sci Rep 10, 19145.
• Huan-Niemi, E., Kaljonen M., Knuuttila M., Niemi J. & Saarinen, M. (2020). The impacts of dietary change in Finland: food system approach. Agriculture and Food Science 29, 4.
• Peltola, T., Kaljonen M. & Kettunen M. (2020). Public, embodied experiments in dietary transition: demonstrating alternative proteins at Finnish schools. Sustainability: Science, Policy and Practice 16, 184-196.
• Kaljonen, M., Salo, M. Lyytimäki, J. & Furman, E. (2020). From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering: assessing long-term changes in sustainable eating at a lunch restaurant. British Food Journal.
• H. L. Rippin, J. Hutchinson, D. C. Greenwood, J. Jewell, J. J. Breda, A. Martin, D. M. Rippin, K. Schindler, P. Rust, S. Fagt, J. Matthiessen, E. Nurk, K. Nelis, M. Kukk, H. Tapanainen, L. Valsta, T. Heuer, E. Sarkadi-Nagy, M. Bakacs, S. Tazhibayev, T. Sharmanov, I. Spiroski, M. Beukers, C. van Rossum, M. Ocke, A. K. Lindroos, Eva Warensjö Lemming, J. E. Cade (2020). Inequalities in education and national income are associated with poorer diet: Pooled analysis of individual participant data across 12 European countries. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232447.
• Weckström, M., Örmä V., Salminen J. (2020). An order of magnitude: How a detailed real-data-based return water flow analysis identified large discrepancies in modeled water consumption volumes for Finland. Ecological Indicators.
• Kortetmäki, T. (2019). Tensions between food justice and climate change mitigation. In Vinnari E. & Vinnari M. (eds.): Sustainable governance and management of food systems. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 53-58.
• More scientific publications in Finnish