Agri-Food Transition Policy: What Roles for Government, Organised Interest, and Other Actors and Coalitions?

Abstract

The need for agri-food system transformation is widely acknowledged, but actual policy initiatives that manage to bring about such transformation appear hard in practice. At EU-level, this is evidenced by the recent push-back in the Vision for Agriculture and Food. At Member State level, the abandonment of the initial Dutch government’s commitments to an agricultural transition (which included an almost 25 billion euro transition fund) is exemplary. This panel aims to better understand dynamics in agri-food transition policies by bringing together research on the roles of, and interactions between, governments, organised interests, and other actors and coalitions in blocking or promoting transformative change in agri-food systems.

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