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Organic agro- food systems as models for sustainable food systems in Europe and Northern Africa - subproject FH Münster (SysOrg)
Project
Project code: 2819OE154
Contract period: 01.01.2021
- 30.11.2023
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: nutrition, food pattern, environment and nature protection, organic farming
SysOrg aims to identify intervention and entry points to enable a transformation process to resilient, sustainable food systems, and to identify how pathways to increase sustainable consumption and food production could be successfully designed. For this it is necessary to understand better food systems including the involved multitude of actors and to identify critical points within the system. The hypothesis is that food systems have common intervention and entry points for enabling transformation processes that are transferable but have to be adapted regionally. SysOrg focuses on territorial food systems and not only on organic or conventional production, but on the whole system (system approach). The four perspectives (system transition, diet, organic food & farming, waste) cover the essential characteristics of sustainable food systems. In particular, the combination of the four perspectives in the analysis and derivation of transformation paths is very innovative. The analysis of five cases in five different countries, geographically distributed over Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Europe as well as North Africa, and the discussion in transnational multi actor workshops ensure that the results obtained can be transferred to other regions as starting or accelerator points for the transformation of food systems.This is done by mapping and analysing five case territories (Copenhagen, Cilento, North Hessia, Warsaw, Kenitra) from four perspectives · system transition, · shifting towards sustainable diets, · enhancing organic food & farming and · reducing waste in a transdisciplinary way. This trans-national multiple case study will encompass a multi-stakeholder approach. SysOrg will result in improved and locally adapted strategies for transformation of food systems across Europe and Northern Africa to sustainable, resilient and resource efficient food systems with less environmental impacts and high socio-cultural acceptance.
Section overview
Subjects
- Resource management
- Nutritional behaviour
- Organic Farming
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
