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As pressures from climate change, biodiversity loss, market uncertainty, and rising global food demand escalate, there is a growing need to consider how agricultural systems can be enhanced and reconfigured to withstand external shocks while advancing ecological, social, and economic sustainability. Responding to current crises calls for structured approaches that guide farmers, stakeholders, advisors, researchers, consumers and policymakers toward systemic solutions that address these overlapping challenges.
Various initiatives incite stakeholders and policy makers to innovate and develop multi-scale and multi-domain adaptation strategies for the agri-food systems. This implies to improve farmland environmental performance using sustainable practices, to reduce their CO2 emissions, and to protect the means of subsistence of farm households as well as natural resources, in particular water and soil, from the effects of climate change.
Moreover, innovations through value chains, driven by collaboration among diverse stakeholders, are proposed and tested for creating inclusive systems. Shifting toward bio-economy and circular economy models can minimize waste and promote resource reuse, enhancing sustainability in the agri-food sector. These innovations in agriculture cannot be efficient without enhancing the capacity of stakeholders and farmers with transformative learning through training and advisory services.
Decision-making and policy-making processes that support inclusive governance structures, involving a wide range of voices from farmers, scientists, policymakers, and civil society are essential for enhancing the adaptability and resilience of these systems.
This symposium aims to revisit progress and debates in co-designing and promoting sustainable Agri-Food systems to face crises and support multiscale decisions. There are many trade-offs to document but also many synergies to analyse when looking at transition pathways and impacts.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFSA Committee invites authors to submit proposals for papers and special sessions along the 4 conference themes below.
Deadline for submission 30th of September. The template and instructions for submissions can be downloaded here.
To submit a proposal:
- Download and fill-in the template. Click here
- Create a scienceconf account
- Log in to your account on the conference webpage
- Submit your proposal through the “Submit a contribution” webpage (you will asked to upload the filled template at this stage)
Decisions will be notified to the main author by e-mail by the end of November. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Themes Theme 1. Transformative changes
Convenors: Teresa Pinto Correia, Julie Ingram, Elisa Marracini, Martin Thorsøe
More information >> Theme 2. Landscape and communities
Convenors: Davide Rizzo, Intissar Ferchichi, Myriam Grillot, Tristan Berchoux, Lola Richelle
More information >> Theme 3. Capacity development to support systemic change: approaches, methods and tools
Convenors: Alex Koutsouris, Andrea Knierim, Pierre Labarthe, Ruth Nettle, Simona Cristiano, Patrizia Proietti, Noelle Aarts, Cees Leeuwis
More information >> Theme 4. Food Production, Consumption, Food Landscape & WEFE Nexus resources
Convenors: Georgios Kleftodimos, Anda Ādamsone-Fiskoviča, Mikelis Grivins, Irene Blanco Gutiérrez
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