The Workshop aimed to inspire the consumer oriented way of thinking facilitated by a stepwise approach and introducing the consumer drivers of food and dietary choice into prospective studies on the sustainability of the EU food system. The Workshop also evaluated and prioritized the consumer-oriented innovation pathways on fruit and vegetables in the EU and […]
The SUSFANS team met with a committee of 10 officials from the European Commission services for a mid-term “policy review”. This is a new instrument in the Research Executive Agency, meant to promote dialogue between H2020 projects and the EC policy community. Participants came from various policy departments, including DG Research & Innovation, Agriculture & […]
Team members from the SUSFANS project participated in the FOOD2030 congress. John Ingram was invited as a keynote speaker in the session ‘the values of a food system approach’. He explained important definitions when thinking about food systems. His talk was complemented by a presentation of Monika Zurek in which she explained the performance metrics […]
Two graduate students of our NTU TAIWAN team were presenting some of the SUSFANS research results. „Capacity building and quantitative food system analysis“ is the title of the pre-conference workshop 3 of the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE 2018) in Vancouver. Joel Oporta presented „Life cycle assessment of the production of black soldier fly […]
Consumers play a very imprtant role and stakeholder involvement is crucial. Watch the video.
For the next three years, Marijke Kuiper has been selected as GTAP research fellow. She received this honour „for outstanding leadership in the development and use of the MAGNET model in the context of many different applications“. Marijke Kuiper: „This is a big reward for all our joint hard work. MAGNET is really seen as […]
SUSFANS focuses on a number of core questions: How can we improve the food system of the EU, especially from the perspective of social, environmental and economic sustainability? How can we balance and encompass different views on balanced consumer diets and food and nutrition security in the EU? The research approach is built around the […]
Rising incomes and urbanization leads to global dietary changes. Traditional diets are replaced by diets higher in refined sugars, fats, oils and meats. Replacing these diets with healthier alternatives can have substantial public health and environmental benefits. But designing healthier diets can be a rather complex process.
To deal with health issues related to food consumption, governments are implementing partnerships with the food industry to generate changes in the quality of foods, based for instance on the decrease in salt or fat contents. Some governments employ also more coercive policies, based on the ban of some ingredients, the implementation of quality standards, […]
In recent years, there has been growing interest on the functioning of food supply chains in the face of significant external challenges, such as a growing demand for agricultural production worldwide and price volatility. This report is the first to analyze the functioning of the food supply chain in terms of firm-level mark-up volatility of […]