Everyday Ecology, Energy, Consumption
Project:
Dissemination Strategy Food Change
Project head:
Project partner:
Öko-Institut e.V., Dr. Ulrike Eberle
Client:
Duration :
09/2006-06/2007
finished
Ernährungswende. Eine Heraus-forderung für Politik, Unter-nehmen und
Gesellschaft (2006). München: oekom verlag.
Flyer (166 kb)
Broschüre "Ernährungswende - Eine Herausforderung für Politik, Unternehmen und Gesellschaft" (pdf-File, 1,1 MB)
Dissemination Strategy Food Change
Within the context of the perennial research project "Food Change" five research institutes have studied how developments can be influenced in a way that nutrition will be dealt with in an environmentally safe, health promoting and ethically responsible manner. Products and structures should therefore at the same time be suited to everyday life taking socio-cultural diversity into consideration. One of the main requirements for the development of guiding principles for implementation in practice was the integrative analysis of political and societal conditions, the environmental impacts of agriculture and food manufacture, questions concerning health and economic relations. The research results undermine the challenges which will have to be faced in the coming years by politics, industry and society as a whole in order to establish sustainable nutrition in the consumers’ everyday life.
Stakeholder Dialogue
To put food change into practice the participation of numerous actors taking care of its implementation is essential. Therefore within the follow-up project "Dissemination Strategy Food Change" the starting points and chances for implementation were identified. This stakeholder dialogue was carried out within a series of workshops in which representatives of non-governmental organisations, of politics and administration, of the nutrition industry and of the health sector participated. Within this dialogue different points of view, interests, and future options were included into a concrete acting strategies and an agreement on objectives for sustainable nutrition was achieved. In autumn a brochure will be published.
Because of the distinct disposition of all stakeholders to assume
responsibility for the achievement of a food change a joint
initiative operating at acting level with a great number of diverse
activities mutually complementing and facilitating is possible. This
initiative based on the commitment and reliability of political frameworks
has three starting points: the stabilisation and continuance of
structures, the joint development of quality standards for sustainable
nutrition offers and the acquirement of concepts and instruments which
will support competence at all levels within the field of nutrition.