Fruit and vegetable consumption is below recommended levels and should increase to come closer to a more healthy and sustainable diet in Europe. The aim of the a new SUSFANS deliverable is to identify innovation pathways in the fruit and vegetable chain from a consumer perspective. SUSFANS researcher are showing in their new paper the […]
SUSFANS aims to develop a toolbox that can aid policy-makers in making balanced and encompassing decisions on potential interventions to achieve food and nutrition security in the EU. An essential part of that is the use of scenarios/plausible futures, both quantitative and qualitative, to better understand the possible implications of decisions currently debated.
Providing foresight on the future development of sustainable food and nutrition security (SFNS) in the EU is one of SUSFANS‘ core targets. This concept encompasses sustainable food systems and sustainable and balanced diets. In their new deliverable, SUSFANS researchers presented a first step in the quantitative part of the foresight. Its main objective is to […]
The state of food security and the stability of the food system can be summarized and measured by food price pressure as well as food price volatility. In this way changes in food prices and their volatility can be used as early warning indicators. SUSFANS researchers of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis illustrate […]
The new SUSFANS Project Advisory Board fruitfully engaged with the research team during the project meeting in Paris in November. The Project Advisory Board is challenging the SUSFANS team and supports the scientific dialogue via participation in project workshops and meetings like the annual consortium meeting. It reviews key project deliverables and was created to […]
Vienna – Around 40 persons participated in the the 3rd Workshop of the SUSFANS project at September 28, 2017. In the focus of the meeting, which took place in Vienna, Austria, was the role of livestock and fish for a sustainable food and nutrition security in Europe.
The SUSFANS project aims to contribute to food systems change. To achieve this, the research will provide policy and decision makers across Europe with the tools to get a holistic understanding of the EU food system and how it relates to sustainable food and nutrition security. While earlier research has focussed on the building of […]
One of the main objectives of the SUSFANS project is to develop a set of concepts and tools to help policy and decision makers across Europe make sense of the outcomes and trends of the EU food system. SUSFANS researcher now propose a set of metrics for assessing the performance of the EU food system […]
Consumers prefer combined information on health and sustainability benefits over only health or sustainability information. In addition, more specific information on health and sustainability is preferred over general information. This is the main outcome of SUSFANS‘ Deliverable D2.3 in which results of an online choice experiment conducted in The Netherlands, France and Czech Republic are […]
Crop production is the most crucial primary agricultural production activity for food and nutrition security. In 2011, around 70% of the global calories intake per capita per day derived from plant-based products. Besides its importance for direct human consumption, crop production is also crucial for producing feed for livestock and, increasingly, also for aquaculture. Understanding […]