Project description
Driving the transition to greater sustainability in livestock-based food systems
As the population continues to grow, so too does the need for farmers to supply more food using sustainable methods that will have a minimal environmental impact and can ensure food safety and animal welfare. In the context of this, the EU-funded PATHWAYS project will deliver co-developed transition pathways that will increase resilience in the supply of safe, nutritious, affordable livestock-based food while decreasing the environmental impact and boosting the economic sustainability of the livestock sector in the EU. The project’s work will increase the role of livestock in a circular bioeconomy and further provide an interactive online platform and policy toolkit for various stakeholders.
Objective
The PATHWAYS project will deliver co-developed transition pathways that directly address societal demands for increased resilience in the provision of safe, nutritious, affordable livestock-based food, whilst reducing environmental impacts, and supporting the economic sustainability of the European livestock sector. Visions, scenarios and transition pathways will be co-developed through an ambitious participatory approach based on innovative practice hubs, living labs and interaction within a European multi-actor platform and a wider community of practice.
Existing and future, co-designed livestock systems will be characterised and assessed within a scientifically robust, holistic sustainability assessment framework, comprising refined key performance indicators and cutting-edge models, to enhance understanding of productivity, biodiversity, health and welfare, greenhouse gas emissions, human nutrition, trade and economics, and ecosystem service impacts. Living labs and practice hubs will identify bottom-up interventions and adoption routes that will drive a transition to improved livestock system development. Consumer preferences, diet choices and willingness to pay will be supported by consequential LCA and economic analysis of trade and supply chain impacts, addressed through stakeholder input and modelling.
The participatory development and application of a holistic sustainability assessment will deliver a scientifically robust analysis for the co-development of scenarios and transition pathways to inform key stakeholders throughout livestock-based food systems, driving a transition to greater sustainability. PATHWAYS will improve the role of livestock in supporting a circular bioeconomy and the place of animal products in future diets through an interactive online platform and policy toolkit to provide user-friendly instruments for a range of stakeholders.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
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750 07 Uppsala
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Participants (34)
6708 PB Wageningen
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6717 XA Ede Gld
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8000 Aarhus C
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28006 Madrid
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5070 Frick
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24 100 Pulawy
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400372 Cluj Napoca
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GL7 6JS Cirencester Gloucestershire
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56126 Pisa
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75007 Paris
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75012 Paris
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75012 Paris
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75009 Paris
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75020 Paris
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GL7 6JN Cirencester
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1609 KOBENHAVN
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24014 Piazza Brembana
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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427200 Nuseni
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RG6 6AH Reading
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532 23 Skara
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289 94 Glimåkra
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64295 Darmstadt
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59400 CAMBRAI
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00 930 WARSZAWA
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41370 CAZALLA DE LASIERRA
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91767 Palaiseau
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75009 Paris
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8260 Viby J
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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9000 Gent
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8200 AARHUS N
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SY23 3BF Aberystwyth
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06123 Perugia
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