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ATTER · Agroecological Transitions for Territorial Food Systems

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-05-01 → 2025-04-30
EU contribution
€1,030,400
Participants
21
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Agroecological Transitions for Territorial Food Systems

In a context of unprecedented combined ecological and social crises, local transition initiatives are emerging in different places, demonstrating the great potential of territorial food systems in terms of their ability to feed people in a healthier and fairer way, while engaging the diversity of actors in such agroecological transitions, despite lasting lock-in mechanisms. The ATTER project (for Agroecological Transitions of TERritorial agri-food systems), which brings together nearly 150 participants - researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with diverse experience - defends the idea of the importance of the territorial scale in initiating systemic agroecological transitions, made possible by a vision of transition as an open, multi-actor process. Transition therefore depends on the contexts, and different paths and trajectories are possible. As a research-action project, ATTER aims at producing knowledge and tools to facilitate and to support agroecological transitions in territorial food systems, according to their contexts. Its approach is based on two pillars: - Learning from the diversity of case studies in different contexts. The project has built up a portfolio of 16 case studies in 5 countries (France, United Kingdom, Italy, USA, Brazil). - Facilitating exchanges of knowledge and experience between researchers and practitioners from the 19 organizations of the network, both through long-term mobilities in order to collectively produce transversal and comparative analyses of the various cases and through a diversity of collective activities. The consortium collective work is structured around these objectives: - Build an international observatory of transitions in territorial agri-food systems - Build a typology of transition trajectories based on case studies - Analyse and propose support approaches to initiate and sustain transition dynamics in their context - Design tools to assess transition processes - Produce public policy recommendations to support transitions at regional, national and European levels.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The ecological and social unsustainability of our food systems is widely acknowledged by scientists, citizens and governments around the world. To address the challenge of sustainable transitions, agroecology is also increasingly recognised as a promising model and the territorial scale as an appropriate scale of analysis and action. ATTER will develop an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange program to help filling the lack of knowledge and methodology for scaling out agroecological transitions for territorial food systems. It will gather researchers and practitioners around cross-case studies work through secondments, trainings and workshops, relying on the specificities of the five countries under study (France, Italy, UK, Brazil and USA) and on the complementary expertise and skills of the 18 participating organisations (10 academic and 8 non-academic). We will manage the ATTER network as an action-research eco-system to boost the emergence and dissemination of knowledge, innovations and tools for the agrifood systems’ transitions.The specific objectives of ATTER are to i) build a portfolio of 15 regionally embedded case studies representing diverse agroecological transitions and trajectories and transform this portfolio into a lasting observatory; ii) based on this portfolio, elaborate a typology of transition pathways in diverse contexts; iii) develop evaluation approaches and tools aimed at integrating the different dimensions involved in agrifood transitions; iv) analyse the effects of policy instruments and facilitating approaches and define policy recommendations and context-sensitive methodological frameworks aimed at facilitating these transitions; v) develop a diversity of adapted training and exchange activities both for academics and practitioners, which will allow more than 100 staff members to develop new skills, discover new research environments and expand their career perspectives, as well as to consolidate a wider and lasting network.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · ParisCoordinatorFrance
  • AS PTA ASSES E SERV A PROJ EM AGRICULTURA ALTERNATIVA · RIO DE JANEIROBrazil
  • CARDIFF UNIVERSITY · CARDIFFUnited Kingdom
  • CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC · ParisFrance
  • CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTISTUDI AGRONOMICI MEDITERRANEI · ValenzanoItaly
  • COVENTRY UNIVERSITY · CoventryUnited Kingdom
  • ELAN CREATEUR · RennesCity levelFrance
  • FEDERATION DEPARTEMENTALE DES C.I.V.A.M. DE L'ARDECHE · MIRABELFrance
  • FEDERATION REGIONALE DES CENTRES D'INITIATIVES POUR VALORISER L'AGRICULTURE ET LE MILIEU RURAL DE BRETAGNE · CESSON SEVIGNECity levelFrance
  • FIAN INTERNATIONAL EV · HEIDELBERGGermany
  • GAL ALTO SALENTO 2020 SOCIETA A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA · OSTUNI BRItaly
  • RESEAU INTERNATIONAL URGENCI · MONTREUILFrance
  • SYNDICAT MIXTE DU PARC NATUREL REGIONAL DES MONTS D'ARDECHE · JaujacFrance
  • TERRALIM · RennesFrance
  • THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM · MADISON WIUnited States
  • THE LANDWORKERS ALLIANCE · BridportUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL · Porto AlegreBrazil
  • UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO · SeropedicaBrazil
  • UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · Eugene OrUnited States
  • UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE · BurlingtonUnited States

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union