In this video, we explain what SUSFANS is all about, how the project will align the different EU diets with EU food production an consumtion for ad sustainable food and nutrition security ein Europe
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 […]
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 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 […]
Shifting towards a more sustainable food consumption pattern is an important strategy to mitigate climate change. In the past decade, various studies have optimised environmentally sustainable diets using different methodological approaches. The aim of the present review was to categorise and summarise the different approaches to operationalise the health aspects of environmentally sustainable diets.
Around 40 experts in the field of food and nutrition security met in Prague, Czech Republic on October 30, 2015, to discuss, review, refine and give feedback on the SUSFANS project. Read the summary and the report.
This first workshop will introduce the SUSFANS project with a special focus on the Work Package 1 ‘Conceptual framework and food and nutrition security (FNS) sustainability metrics’ and the Work Package 6 ‘Stakeholder interaction and scenario review’.