FOODLEVERS

FOODLEVERS (Leverage points for organic and sustainable food systems) is a three-year research project (2020-2023) that focuses on organic and sustainable food production systems across different European countries, including Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Romania, Finland and Belgium.

Project Leaders and Partners

• See here for map of all partners:  https://www.foodlevers.org/about/partners
• RAU – https://www.rau.ac.uk/
• Uni of Reading – https://www.reading.ac.uk/
• ILVO – https://ilvo.vlaanderen.be/en/
• European Forest Institute – https://efi.int/
• Research Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystems – https://www.iret.cnr.it/en/
• Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – https://en.iung.pl/
• Philipps-University Marburg – https://www.uni-marburg.de/en
• University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine – https://admitere.usamvcluj.ro/

Project Aims

FOODLEVERS aims to identify key leverage points to further develop and scale up existing innovative organic and sustainable food systems. The project will analyse several European case studies of innovative organic food systems and innovative sustainable systems and identify best practice from multiple perspectives of resource efficiency: environment, economy, social and governance.

ORC’s Role

ORC is involved in the development of data collection protocols. As well as this, ORC plays a key role in the ecosystem services assessment of selected case study farms and is a co-lead in the adaptation of the PG tool and indicators selection, organisation of indicator workshop. ORC is also assisting with socio-economic value chain assessments by helping convene interviews with experts in the UK. Finally ORC will also provide support for qualitative scenario modelling of organic consumers.