Transition to a sustainable food system

Under the name of the Dutch National Science Agenda, a broad consortium of 30 scientists from universities of applied sciences, together with a large number of companies, NGOs and innovative networks, is launching the three-year programme 'Transition to a sustainable food system'. It is the first transdisciplinary consortium in the Netherlands to work on the transition of the food system as a whole.

Among other things, it is working on an acceleration agenda for transition, providing insight into how the transition task can take shape in an area-oriented approach, a system model for quantitative system analyses and building blocks for educational development on the theme of transition to a sustainable food system.

What is the expected outcome?

The consortium has a number of relevant results in mind, and two coherent breakthroughs are being worked on:

Social breakthrough
A new branch of transdisciplinary research with an active community of researchers and practitioners focusing on addressing the structural causes (patterns, systemic structures and mental models) of today's unsustainable food system and providing concrete action perspectives for a sustainable food system.

Scientific breakthrough
A transdisciplinary acceleration agenda for the transition to a sustainable food system in the Netherlands. It indicates which transitions are desirable with which end goals.

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