Description: Das Projekt "Facilitating Alternative Agro-food Networks (FAANs) - Stakeholder Perspectives on Research Needs" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Interuniversitäres Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (IFZ) durchgeführt. FAAN is a project, which engages civil society organisations (CSOs) in a 'co-operative research (CR) activity and in future research agenda-setting on 'Alternative Agro-Food Networks (AAFNs). Five academic institutions and five CSO partners dealing with alternative agriculture and rural development from 5 EU member states will co-operatively carry out research including stakeholders (focus group discussions, scenario analysis workshops) on the following issues: how AAFNs are defined by social, political, commercial and cultural frameworks involving motives beyond direct material interests in practice, how current policies facilitate or impede the development of AAFNs, how alternatives may be complementary or oppositional to conventional agro-food networks, how AAFNs contribute to regional development, how AAFNs link different types of innovation as a basis to broaden EU research policies on the 'knowledge-based bio-economy. Co-operative research is a form of research process, which involves researchers in a close co-operative engagement with the aim to produce knowledge together. In contrary to multi- or inter-disciplinary research, where people from different academic disciplines work together, co-operative research is based on a trans-disciplinary concept. Trans-disciplinarity means that non-scientific actors from civil society are involved in research going beyond the usual public engagement. CR is characterised by a strong 'upstream approach, which means that the engagement occurs at a very early stage in the research process. In the case of FAAN the CSO partners are not only involved in carrying out research, but already earlier. They contribute to setting up research questions, in developing the research design, and finally in setting up recommendations for further research needs. CR is especially relevant for investigating complex issues from everyday life, which are of high societal relevance. This can be taken up with trans-disciplinary research approaches, and worked on by developing appropriate methods to integrate different forms of knowledge and expertise, which is segmented into different scientific fields and different fields of practical knowledge. As a rule, actors with different perspectives, backgrounds, interests and work styles encounter each other within a process of social learning. FAAN is a social experiment in science governance through trans-disciplinary engagement of civil society people in research at the earliest stage in the process. This upstream approach will identify further research relevant to AAFNs, in order to inform future research agendas. The project will contribute substantially to the evidence base and the understanding necessary to foster more desirable types of agricultural innovation within the European Community, and we will point out how policy frameworks could better facilitate such improvements. Finally we will evaluate the co-operative research process of FAAN in order to identify
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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Ländliche Entwicklung ? Artgerechte Tierhaltung ? Lebensmittelindustrie ? Umweltmarketing ? Nahrungsproduktion ? Forschungspolitik ? Qualitätsmanagement ? Bioökonomie ? Ersatzstoff ? Zukunftsforschung ? Innovation ? Interdisziplinarität ? Interessenvertreter ? Kommunikation ? Ökologischer Landbau ? Management ? Politik ? Produktionstechnik ? Sozialer Wert ? Agrarlebensmittel ? Transdisziplinarität ? Forschung ? Soziale Aspekte ? Körperschaft ? Landwirtschaft ? Lebensmittel ? Ökonomie ? Beteiligung ? Regionalentwicklung ? Umweltverträglichkeit ? Wirtschaftliche Aspekte ? Biodiversität ? Zivilgesellschaft ? Workshop ? Betriebsorganisation ? Wechselwirkung ? Arterhaltung ? Alte Pflanzensorten ? Konsument ? Netz ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2008-01-01 - 2010-03-31
Webseite zum Förderprojekt
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