Past event
Conference
October 15th 2024

Antwerpen

Food value chains

How 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 processes

Cereals sectorProtein crops
Sustainability indicators
Path dependencyPolicy recommendationsParticipatory approach
Belgium

Speakers

Caroline Amrom Diana Borniotto Erik Mathijs, Sfere, KULeuven, Ines Cottignies, Sfere, KULeuven

Publication of October 22nd 2024
Report
Transition pathways

Toward a resilient food supply of Brussels Capital region: possible scenarios based on a barriers analysis and an explorative prospective approach

Brussels Food 2050 (BruFo2050), is an explorative prospective research project that gathers two teams: Sytra from UCLouvain and Sfere, from KULeuven. This three-years long project aims at diving into the analysis and understanding of the Brussels food supply system.

Food value chains
Vegetable sectorCereals sectorPotato sectorDairy sectorBeef meat sector
Sustainability indicators
Prospective scenariosLock-inPolicy recommendationsParticipatory approach
Belgium

Authors

Caroline Amrom Hannelore Deschaepmeester

Past event
Conference
March 20th 2019

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Transition pathways

Towards a low-pesticides agriculture in Wallonia? Presentation of a diversity of scenarios

What 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 sector
Participatory approach
WalloniaBelgium

Speakers

Philippe Baret Clémentine Antier

Publication of May 15th 2024
Research article
Production systems

A method to account for diversity of practices in Conservation Agriculture

Local factors influence the translation of Conservation Agriculture (CA) into practices. To categorize the diversity of farmers’ CA practices, we combined archetypal and hierarchical clustering analysis. In Wallonia, we were able to identify three main CA-types with salient practices.

Crop diversificationConservation agriculture
Participatory approach
WalloniaBelgium

Authors

Manon Ferdinand Philippe Baret

Publication of May 8th 2024
Report
Transition pathways

Scenarios and case studies for a sustainable transition of the Belgian food system

Study for WWF Belgium proposing two scenarios for the future of the Belgian food system

Vegetable sectorFruit sectorCereals sectorProtein cropsPotato sectorBeetroot sectorEggs sectorDairy sectorBeef meat sectorPig meat sectorPoultry meat sectorMeadows and pasture
Protein transitionSustainability indicatorsCrop diversificationOrganic farming
Prospective scenarios
Belgium

Authors

Quentin Vandersteen Anton Riera Noé Vandevoorde Philippe Baret Louis Tessier

Publication of April 5th 2022
Research article
Transition pathways

The economic implications of a protein transition

The protein transition, defined as the rebalancing between animal and alternative proteins in diets, is presented as a solution to mitigate the harmful effects of cattle production on the environment. We discuss the implications of such a transition on current livestock farms.

Dairy sectorBeef meat sectorMeadows and pasture
Protein transition
Economic performanceEnvironmental footprint
WalloniaBelgiumEurope

Authors

Océane Duluins Anton Riera Philippe Baret Monica Schuster; Goedele Van den Broeck

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