STErn – Socio-ecological Transformation of the Food System

STErn – Socio-ecological Transformation of the Food System

Publication: Website
Citation: Ecologic Institute 2020: STErn – Socio-ecological Transformation of the Food System. URL: https://stern-projekt.org

Within the project „Socio-ecological Transformation of the Food System“, policy recommendations for the transformation towards a sustainable food system were developed between October 2020 and September 2023. The STErn website was developed, implemented, and designed by Ecologic Institute. It serves the public communication of the project's goals, events, and results.

Ecologic Institute and Öko-Institut were responsible for the overall management of the project, which was carried out together with the Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft and e-fect.

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Melanie Kemper

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Overview: Measures to implement the three STErn-strategies

Year 2023

Publication:Brochure

The brochure summarizes all the recommendations for action that were developed as part of the STErn project. Objectives and indicators are outlined for each key topic of the STErn project.

Components for the Transformation towards a Sustainable Food System

Year 2023

Publication:Report

This report summarises key findings and recommendations for a strategy to promote more plant-based diets. This strategy is key for a sustainable transformation of food systems as so far, there is a lack of binding policy targets for sustainable nutrition to guide actions, and indicators to enable monitoring. This report discusses different options for targets and indicators, drawing on the concept of planetary boundaries and the Planetary Health Diet.

Entwicklung von politischen Handlungsansätzen für die Unterstützung stärker pflanzenbasierter Ernährungsweisen

Year 2023

Publication:Report

This report discusses the question of what degree of importance German environmental policy should attach to the regionalization of value chains and the role this approach might play in a socio-ecological transformation of the food system.

Regionalisierung von Ernährungssystemen

Einschätzung von Nachhaltigkeitspotenzialen und Darstellung politischer Handlungsansätze

Year 2023

Event:Digital Event

The online workshop on 28 November 2022 dealt with three political approaches to promote plant-based diets in Germany. Around 30 experts discussed the three approaches in the five-hour workshop: The institutionalisation through a federal programme and a foundation, urban and spatial planning, and vocational education and training.

Policy Approaches for the Promotion of More Plant-based Diets

Online-workshop on the socio-ecological transformation of the German food system

28 November 2022
online

Publication:Conference Paper

This input paper delves into three selected policy approaches to support more plant-based diets.

Förderung pflanzenbasierter Ernährungsweisen

Vertiefung von drei politischen Handlungsansätzen

Year 2022

Event:Workshop

On 21 March 2023, the STErn project team discussed the recommendations for action of the STErn project with around 40 experts from politics, administration, science and practice. The event was opened by Matthias Koller (Federal Environment Agency) and Dr. Margareta Büning-Fesel (Federal Agency for Nutrition). The recommendations for action of the STErn project were explained, discussed and supplemented in small groups.

Steps for the Transformation to a Sustainable Food System

Recommendations for action of the STErn project

21 March 2023
Berlin, Germany

Publication:Conference Paper

This discussion paper focuses on the potential for political intervention to promote regionalization (in the interests of sustainability) in the most effective way possible. It is part of the work of the research project "Socio-ecological Transformation of the Food System" (acronym STErn) carried out on behalf of UBA/BMU.

Politische Strategien für eine nachhaltigkeitsförderliche Regionalisierung von Ernährungssystemen

Diskussionspapier

Year 2022

Publication:Conference Paper

Germany's current nutrition system is not sustainable; it requires a far-reaching socio-ecological transformation. This finding forms the starting thesis of the STErn project, whose interim results and policy recommendations for action were discussed at a workshop on 21 March 2023. This paper provided the basis for the discussion.

Bausteine für die Transformation zu einem nachhaltigen Ernährungssystem

Inputpapier für den STErn-Workshop am 21.03.2023

Year 2023

Languages: German

English
Credits: Concept: Stephanie Wunder, Irina Herb, Melanie Kemper (Ecologic Institute)
Programming: Aaron Sulc, Alan Keogh (Ecologic Institute)
Design: Lena Aebli (Ecologic Institute)
Funding: German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Published by: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Year: 2020 - 2023
Project: Sustainable Management: Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Food System
Project ID: 50029
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