Advancing the Contributions of European Stakeholders in Farming Systems to Transitions to Agroecology
Promouvoir la contribution aux transitions vers l'agroécologie des acteurs européens des systèmes agricoles
Förderung der Beiträge von europäischen Beteiligten der landwirtschaftlichen Systeme zum Übergang zur Agrarökologie
Katarzyna Zawalińska, Alexandra Smyrniotopoulou, Katalin Balazs, Michael Böhm, Mihai Chitea, Violeta Florian, Mihaela Fratila, Piotr Gradziuk, Stuart Henderson, Katherine Irvine, Vasilia Konstantidelli, Vitaliy Krupin, Laure Latruffe, Elvyra Mikšytė, David Miller, Daniel Monteleone, Marcus Polaschegg, Gerald Schwarz, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Irene Tzouramani, George Vlahos, Adrianna Wojciechowska
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Abstract
The concept of a ‘just transition’ is gaining traction in international policy discourses. It has particular significance in relation to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions and the need for ensuring rights and responsibilities of all actors in transitions to agroecological farming systems. Research plays an important role in accompanying this transformation. It explores pathways for more sustainable and fair food systems, barriers to them being achieved, and where and what risks arise for communities of interest and of place. Researchers and practitioners across levels and sectors were brought together in H2020 projects LIFT and UNISECO using processes of stakeholder engagement. Both projects analysed the perceptions of actors towards agroecological farming, and their active involvement in the transitions required. This article summarises lessons learnt regarding multi-actor engagement in different participatory settings in both projects, including a Multi-Actor Platform approach, Q method, DELPHI and Hybrid forum workshops. The interactions involved several hundred actors from 18 countries across Europe. The article reflects on implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the processes and effectiveness of multi-actor engagement, and assessments of the impacts on the empowerment of the actors. The findings are contextualised by contemporary European Union and national policy objectives of tackling climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and inequalities.
期刊介绍:
EuroChoices is a full colour, peer reviewed, outreach journal of topical European agri-food and rural resource issues, published three times a year in April, August and December. Its main aim is to bring current research and policy deliberations on agri-food and rural resource issues to a wide readership, both technical & non-technical. The need for this is clear - there are great changes afoot in the European and global agri-food industries and rural areas, which are of enormous impact and concern to society. The issues which underlie present deliberations in the policy and private sectors are complex and, until now, normally expressed in impenetrable technical language.