Interactions and cooperation toward sustainable food systems

Abstract

Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing focus on unsustainable practices and structures in the current food system. Modern farming practices are associated with a number of negative environmental impacts such as water pollution, threats to biodiversity, emission of greenhouse gasses. Making food systems more sustainable requires, amongst others, changes in production and consumption practices. While some existing policies are perceived as barriers to these changes, policymakers at different levels have increasingly attempted to create policy instruments to increase food system sustainability. Meanwhile, scientific insights and experiences with local initiatives provide insights in new pathways toward more sustainability. In this process of change, actors within the food system constantly learn from interactions with the existing policy framework, technological innovations, and lived experiences. The papers in this panel focus on these interactions between the different actors – producers, scientists, and civil servants – and the lessons they provide for the transition toward a more sustainable food system.

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