Upcoming event Conference October 18th 2024 GentTransition pathwaysThe Protein Transition: Rethinking our diets for a sustainable futureStudents4food Inspirational Talks: a World Food Forum Event in Ghent Protein transition
Past event Conference October 9th 2024 Transition pathwaysFrom Policies to Practices: An Agroecological Approach to TransitionA conference on agroecologyAgroecology
Upcoming event Conference October 15th 2024 AntwerpenFood value chainsHow to effectively engage actors in transitions for sustainable impact?The Futures4Food team wants to convene practitioners and scientists alike to exchange on lessons learned, best practices and analytical frameworks of transition-related multi-stakeholders processesCereals sectorProtein cropssustainability assessmentPolicyBelgiumParticipatory processPathway dependancy
Past event Conference June 26th 2024 BruxellesTransition pathwaysFarming without harming: policy action for resilient agricultureHosted by Pesticide Action Network Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility and Agroecology EuropePolicyEuropeWalloniaAgroecology
Past event Conference June 12th 2024 FrickTransition pathways187th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)Four members of the Sytra Team will be participating in the 187th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Frick between the 12 and 16th of June.
Past event Conference June 5th 2024 Ottignies-Louvain-la-NeuveTransition pathwaysSeminar on the Paradoxes of the Protein TransitionYou are warmly welcome to attend a seminar I will be giving on June 5th from 12 to 13 p.m. (Belgian time zone). The seminar will tackle the paradoxes of the protein transition, defined as the dietary shift from animal to alternative protein sources.Protein cropsDairy sectorBeef meat sectorPig meat sectorPoultry meat sector
Past event Conference July 7th 2023 WageningenTransition pathwaysSCP Conference: Is the protein transition missing a silver bullet?The "transforming consumption-production systems toward just and sustainable futures" conference runs from July 5 to 8 in Wageningen. Sytra will give a presentation on the protein transition and share partial results of a systematic review on the protein transition.
Past event Conference January 10th 2023 OxfordProduction systemsLEAP Conference (Oxford) : Sytra’s presentations on the bovine sectorOn 25 January 2023, Sytra will give two presentations at the LEAP conference : (1) Economic implications of a protein transition: evidence from Walloon beef and dairy farms; (2) Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insisghts from the Walloon bovine sectors.Dairy sectorBeef meat sectorProtein transitionDiversitySustainability indicatorsEconomic viability
Past event Conference February 18th 2022 Online (Zoom)Production systemsDiverIMPACTS webinar: Small-scale sorting of pulses and grainsIn this webinar, an example of machinery and operations for sorting multiple crops on the farm was presented.Organic agricultureCereals sectorProtein cropsInnovationFarmer agencyEuropeShort food supply chainEconomic viability
Past event Workshop December 11th 2020 Food value chainsThe role of fair pricing for crop diversificationIn the context of the EU-funded DiverIMPACTS project, we will present tools and analysis for helping crop diversification case studies developing fair value chains. Organic agricultureCereals sectorProtein cropsInnovationFlandersEuropeShort food supply chainBelgiumTransition enablers
Past event Conference March 10th 2020 Ottignies-Louvain-la-NeuveProduction systemsHow can current farming systems contribute to provide sustainable and local food?How to measure the social and environmental footprint of our food habits? Which are the land use opportunities for more sustainable and local food systems? How can vegetable production at the regional level meet these challenges?Vegetable sectorLand use planningProspective scenariosEnvironmental footprint
Past event Conference March 20th 2019 Ottignies-Louvain-la-NeuveTransition pathwaysTowards a low-pesticides agriculture in Wallonia? Presentation of a diversity of scenariosWhat are the main modes of production today in Wallonia? How are the sectors organized? Which scenarios can we envisage, and with what consequences in terms of production and use of pesticides?Cereals sectorPotato sectorDairy sectorBeef meat sectorBelgiumWalloniaParticipatory process