Project description
Digging up diverse agroecological transitions and trajectories
To address sustainable development goals and the challenges of food systems transitions, agroecology is increasingly recognised as a promising model and the territorial scale as an appropriate scale of analysis and action. The EU-funded ATTER project develops an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange programme for scaling up agroecological transitions for territorial food systems. It gathers researchers and practitioners in working on cross-case studies through secondments, trainings and workshops, relying on 15 territorial case studies anchored in five countries (France, Italy, UK, Brazil and USA) and on the complementary skills of the 18 participating organisations. The ATTER network will be managed as an action-research ecosystem to boost the emergence and dissemination of knowledge.
Objective
The ecological and social unsustainability of our food systems is widely acknowledged by scientists, citizens and governments around the world. To address the challenge of sustainable transitions, agroecology is also increasingly recognised as a promising model and the territorial scale as an appropriate scale of analysis and action. ATTER will develop an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange program to help filling the lack of knowledge and methodology for scaling out agroecological transitions for territorial food systems. It will gather researchers and practitioners around cross-case studies work through secondments, trainings and workshops, relying on the specificities of the five countries under study (France, Italy, UK, Brazil and USA) and on the complementary expertise and skills of the 18 participating organisations (10 academic and 8 non-academic). We will manage the ATTER network as an action-research eco-system to boost the emergence and dissemination of knowledge, innovations and tools for the agrifood systems’ transitions.
The specific objectives of ATTER are to i) build a portfolio of 15 regionally embedded case studies representing diverse agroecological transitions and trajectories and transform this portfolio into a lasting observatory; ii) based on this portfolio, elaborate a typology of transition pathways in diverse contexts; iii) develop evaluation approaches and tools aimed at integrating the different dimensions involved in agrifood transitions; iv) analyse the effects of policy instruments and facilitating approaches and define policy recommendations and context-sensitive methodological frameworks aimed at facilitating these transitions; v) develop a diversity of adapted training and exchange activities both for academics and practitioners, which will allow more than 100 staff members to develop new skills, discover new research environments and expand their career perspectives, as well as to consolidate a wider and lasting network.
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75007 Paris
France
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Participants (14)
75016 Paris
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CF24 0DE Cardiff
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CV1 5FB Coventry
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56126 Pisa
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70010 Valenzano
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35577 Cesson Sevigne
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35039 Rennes
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14000 Caen
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69115 Heidelberg
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DT6 6DF Bridport
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07380 Jaujac
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72017 Ostuni Br
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35000 Rennes
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07170 Mirabel
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Partners (6)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
23897 000 SEROPEDICA
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90046900 Porto Alegre
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53706 Madison Wi
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97403-5295 Eugene Or
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22270-070 Rio De Janeiro
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
05405 0160 Burlington
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