Mapping lock-ins and enabling environments for agri-food sustainability transitions in Europe.

ABSTRACT: European agri-food systems must overcome structural lock-ins to achieve more sustainable modes of production and consumption. Yet European regions are highly diverse, and we lack understanding of how different regional characteristics may enable or inhibit sustainability transitions. This hinders the development of context-tailored governance strategies. In this paper, we identify and apply sets of spatial indicators to map the regional potentials for agri-food transitions. We first analyse the strength of lock-in to the incumbent agro-industrial paradigm. We then map the enabling environments for two alternative agri-food networks-multifunctional value chains and civic food networks-that each embed distinct social-ecological qualities of agriculture and food. Results demonstrate a large s

SUBMITTER: Williams TG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11245428 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature