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Enfoque geográfico:
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarús, Bélgica, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canadá, Croacia, Chequia, Dinamarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Alemania, Grecia, Hungría, Islandia, Irlanda, Italia, Letonia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Malta, Mónaco, Montenegro, Países Bajos, Macedonia del Norte, Noruega, Polonia, Portugal, República de Moldova, Rumania, Federación de Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, España, Швеция, Suiza, Ucrania, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, Estados Unidos de América
Discussion topic outcome
Interconnected considerations for approaches to plant-based innovation to help catalyse a just transition to better diets. To be more transformative, that innovation needs to: Address the challenges holistically, avoiding trading off one aspect against another (eg human health vs the environment) or ignoring some issues altogether (eg living wages for food workers). Design/test for - and commit to - scaling up, at speed, because the challenges are urgent, and we need rapid positive change at scale. Scale can happen in different ways: it might mean many similar innovations or activities joining
... Leer más up more effectively, not just one innovation becoming “bigger”. Cater to more different individuals and communities and unmet needs. Successful innovations often leave people behind, who are considered too hard to reach, or are just less important or visible to those doing the innovating. For a just transition and equal access to good diets, innovation must cater to more parts of society and do more to address everyone’s unmet needs around healthy, sustainable eating. Look beyond the product level, considering how innovations sit within and affect the bigger picture of what’s needed. This includes: - Creating genuinely equitable business models, whether from the ground up or by transforming what we already have (eg looking beyond the usual funders/investors to new partners with an interest in similar outcomes); and, especially important, ensuring food workers earn enough to afford good food. - Changing eating behaviours for the better, and at scale, based on a solid understanding of where people are starting from. - Driving and supporting mindset and cultural shifts, including within specific target groups - recognising and working with the fact that this could take time. Decentralise access to good food making it more available out of hours, out of town, or for isolated/less mobile consumers, and easier to grow some fresh produce at home or nearby. Empower people through food skills and knowledge, enabling them to grow food and cook more from scratch, understand more about what they’re eating, and help others to do the same (eg skills sharing between chefs). This is not meant as a definitive, exhaustive list (or a completely novel one). The value lies in treating these considerations as an interconnected set to help ensure innovation is truly transformative, and/or in understanding which area we can be best at, while supporting others to act on the remaining areas (and certainly without undermining them). They can generate useful prompt questions/challenges: Does my approach to innovation truly live up to all of these considerations? Am I failing on any of them? Where might I be able to do more? Leer menos
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Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Innovation