Agri-collision - an invitation to working together for resilience in agriculture

By Tsilla Boisselet. Licensed under the CreativeCommons 4.0 

You can cite this by using the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4568150

We want a more humane and more resilient food system, we believe there is more than large industrial, or small hobby gardeners as models for food production. We want to discover the ways leading to a food system able to respond to the big challenges of tomorrow for the environment, the economy, for public health in a globalised context. We want to build a resilient network of collaboration.

Working together in designing our common future in agriculture and food, nice and good, but how to work together without knowing who is out there, and what they are doing, or what the needs, strengths and weaknesses of others are, and how you are connected?  

We are looking for different actors in different parts of Europe in the agricultural and in the food chain sector, who have an innovative approach from the environmental and/or social point of view. 

Questionnaires and literature review give valuable information about current practices and their impact, evidence-driven analysis, thus helping understand short and long-term effects, indirect impacts and about the usefulness of some tools. The aim of interviews is first to increase awareness about issues and alternatives in the sector, as they often lack a voice to make them heard to others outside of their usual circle of contacts – in other words, giving a voice to less-known narratives.

But more importantly, we want them to find partners, as a community who can collaborate and who are willing to work together to produce material to enable changes elsewhere and on a deeper level. 

We want to enable change on larger scale through sharing of knowledge, connection to other actors in the value chain and design a common strategy to make it real. Seriously understanding the stakeholders and the landscape, the challenges and opportunities are the basics.

By mapping the interconnectedness of the different actors on a value chain map, and discussing with this tool in mind, we can design an efficient strategy with an impact and produce useful documents to implement actions on a wider scale. 

Co-design the future of food. 

Are you a professional, an entrepreneur, an organization, a pioneer, a dreamer, a down-to-earth grower, or are you otherwise working in the food value chain? Are you looking for alternatives to make food chain more socially and environmentally resilient, healthier? We want to know more about you, and why the world needs you! 

Come and speak with us about your history, your vision, your challenges and development.