Division of Food Production and Society
ENFASYS - ENcouraging Farmers towards sustainable farming SYstems through policy and business Strategies
End: aug 2026
Start: sep 2022
Today’s farmers find it difficult to deal with the several lock-ins within food systems that keep them from transitioning to sustainable farming systems. Policies, together with business models and social innovations, need to be strengthened to overcome lock-in challenges
Project participants
Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez| External project link | Visit the official web site |
| Start - end date | 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2026 |
| Project manager at Nibio | Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo |
| Division | Division of Food Production and Society |
| Department | Economics and Society |
| Funding source | EU |
The EU-funded ENFASYS project aims to better understand lock-ins and levers in farming and food systems, as well as factors stemming from the behaviour of farmers, consumers, and other food chain stakeholders. It will test the possible effectiveness of policy and business interventions in European countries and screen 160 current intervention cases. The project will design policy mixes, business strategies, and social innovations that encourage farmers to transform their production systems.
Project partners
- Eigen Vermogen van Het Instituut voor Landbouw - en Visserijonderzoek (Coordinator) - Belgium
- Conseil Europeen des Jeune Agriculteurs AISBL - Belgium
- Udruzenje Eko-inovacija na Balkanu - Serbia
- Gaia Epicheirein Anonymi Etaireia Psifiakon Ypiresion - Greece
- Groupe sup de co Montpellier - France
- NIBIO - Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi - Norway
- Universite Catholique de Louvain - Belgium
- Institut de l'Elevage - France
- TEAGASC - Agriculture and food Development Authority - Ireland
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna - Italy
- Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin -Germany
- Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau Stiftung - Switzerland
Total EU Contribution: € 3 997 625