COwLEARNING für nachhaltige Rindfleisch- und Milchversorgung
Abstract
Several aspects of dairy and beef supply are perceived as unsustainable, such as impacts on climate change, loss of land and biodiversity for feed production, animal and human welfare problems on farms and in abattoirs, health risks due to excessive meat consumption or antibiotic resistance. While the problems are attracting considerable public attention, there is no agreement on reasonable targets and we lack information on transition paths to achieve them. Actors from farm to fork are caught in lock-ins and there is a culture of mutual blame. Based on transition management, we aim to break the blame game by initializing a co-learning process that combines expertise from social, environmental, agricultural, and veterinary sciences with the knowledge of practitioners in farming, processing, retail and gastronomy, and of citizen-consumers. The project aims to identify transition paths to a more sustainable beef and dairy supply and to understand whether and how scenarios and serious games can support learning and transition management. We address three questions: 1. What has driven past changes in the cattle system and why have sustainability innovations (not) been implemented? 2. How do alternative dairy/beef chains compare in terms of animal and human welfare, the environment, socio-economic characteristics, and potential for up-scaling? 3. What are broadly acceptable and future-proof transition paths? We will analyse innovations (e.g. cow-calf contact systems, pasture-based feeding, mobile abattoirs, cow-sharing, nose-to-tail gastronomy, milk/beef substitutes) in a farm-to-fork assessment, considering sustainability and potential for up-scaling. We will complement this assessment with scenarios (visions, targets, trade-offs) and serious games, which create playful learning spaces for experimenting with transition paths. An integrated farm-to-fork assessment of real-life innovations, scenarios, and serious gaming are woven into an innovative transdisciplinary research design. This will generate outstanding knowledge on transitions in beef/dairy supply and on scaling of food sustainability innovations as well as methodological advances for transition management.
keywords Transdisciplinarity Serious Games Scenario Process Sustainability Assessment Farm-to-Fork Social Learning Transition Management Agro-Food Studies Up-scaling of Sustainability Innovations
Publikationen
Project staff
Marianne Penker
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Marianne Penker
marianne.penker@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73115
Project Leader
01.03.2022 - 28.02.2027
Cornelia Fischer
Dipl.-Ing. Cornelia Fischer MSc.
cornelia.fischer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73113
Project Staff
01.03.2022 - 31.05.2026
Alexandra Frangenheim
Dr. Alexandra Frangenheim B.A. M.A.
alexandra.frangenheim@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73114
Project Staff
01.03.2022 - 28.02.2027
Verena Radinger-Peer
Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Verena Radinger-Peer
verena.radinger-peer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85314
Project Staff
01.03.2022 - 30.11.2022
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
Dr. Waiblinger
partner