Objective
The policy issue central to this project is food as many of today’s sustainability problems (e.g. water shortage, GHG emissions, pollution of soil and water, decrease of biodiversity, urban waste) are related to the prevailing pattern of food production and consumption (including processing and distribution). Hence, developing more sustainable food production and consumption patterns will have a significant impact on sustainable development in general. This project aims to develop and experiment with new integrative modalities of linking research to policy-making in the field of sustainable food consumption and production, thereby contributing to the establishment of new policy-relevant communities of researchers, policy makers & CSOs and enhancing the use of research insights in policies to promote sustainable food systems. Three different Communities of Practice will be developed, focusing on different dimensions of a newly emerging integrated territorial food geography: a) short food supply chains, b) sustainable public food procurement, and c) urban food strategies. Like the FOODLINKS consortium, each CoP will consist of researchers, policymakers and CSO representatives. In this project we will monitor and evaluate the knowledge brokerage activities in the CoPs, in order to propose new ways of linking research and policymaking in the food domain as well as in other public domains.
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FP7-ENV-2010
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CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
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Participants (13)
5070 Frick
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CF24 0DE Cardiff
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56126 Pisa
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1014 Riga
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EC1V 0HB London
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8010 Graz
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200 42 Malmo
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EH1 3DG Edinburgh
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48160 Vizcaya
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35577 Cesson Sevigne
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3101 TUKUMA
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1090 Wien
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6229 GA MAASTRICHT
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