Despite earlier and more recent scientific evidence, societies are facing enormous and persisting sustainability challenges. The field of agri-food transition research is characterized by different – mainly only incremental – change patterns and the theoretical perspectives to describe, explain and foster them range across different scholarly fields. Furthermore, research insights often are not well tuned to the needs and challenges of agricultural practices and policies. This workshop invited researchers and practitioners to co-generate an integrative overview on contemporary issues in agri-food transitions and future avenues in research, policy making as well as in innovation and transition practice. Collaboration is continued in follow-up working groups. A documentation of the SISA format can be found here.
The SISA-4 Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel and supported by the Sustainability Transitions Network, the Synergia program on Technology for Ecology at Wageningen University and Research and LabEx SITES on Science, Innovation and Technology in Society at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Society (IFRIS) of Université Gustave Eiffel (UGE). We are also grateful, that Foundation fiat panis is supporting our scholarly engagement with sustainability transitions and food security in the global south at the workshop.
