Towards more sustainable food provision
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Newsletter 06/2025
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As 2025 draws to a close, we’re celebrating the progress and insights our consortium has achieved together this year. From a successful review meeting with the European Research Executive Agency to new publications exploring sustainable food systems, it’s been a season full of learning and collaboration.
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In this edition, discover three new publications on water management, behaviour change, and policy pathways, meet our partner Global Nature Fund in the latest “Introducing…” feature, and explore this month’s SPI of the month on sustainable water management in Hungary.
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We wish all our readers a joyful festive season and look forward to a new year filled with meaningful impact and exciting project results.
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P.S.: To all new subscribers - make sure to follow us on LinkedIn for bite-sized updates.
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Behavioural Responses to Climate Policy Measures
How willing are farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices? Our latest report from Task 3.2 explores EU farmers’ acceptance of economic instruments — from emissions trading schemes to voluntary carbon markets and innovative subsidies. Drawing on experiments with over 1,100 farmers in Italy and Denmark, it also reveals how behavioral factors influence adoption ...
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The potential of a governmental label for dark green agri-environmental measures
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How can policy better motivate farmers to support biodiversity?
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A new report from the VISIONARY project explores how behavioural insights and experimental approaches can inform more effective agri-environmental policies. Focusing on an innovative labelling framework for “dark green” climate measures, the study highlights how targeted policy levers could increase farmer participation and help drive the transition towards sustainable farming, biodiversity protection and resilient food systems in Europe.
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Promoting Balanced Growth of Organic Farming in the EU: Barriers, Drivers, and the Potential of future Public Procurement policy design
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What really drives — or holds back — the shift to organic farming?
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New insights show that the transition depends on a complex mix of barriers and enablers, from market uncertainty and labour shortages to peer learning, advisory support and cross-sector collaboration. Rather than a single obstacle, the findings highlight the importance of a well-coordinated food system, where farmers, advisors, processors, consumers and policymakers work together to unlock the full potential of organic farming.
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Successful review meeting with the European Research Executive Agency
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On 16 December 2025, we met with our REA project officer and two external reviewers to review the achievements and results of our second project period. During the four-hour session, we received very positive feedback and...
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Introducing... Global Nature Fund, Germany
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Global Nature Fund (GNF) is a non-profit environmental foundation committed to protecting nature and biodiversity worldwide. Founded in 1998, GNF focuses on the sustainable use of natural resources, ecological conservation, and improving living conditions through innovative, cross-sectoral solutions. In the VISIONARY project, GNF serves as co-lead of Work Package 1, which is dedicated to communication, dissemination, and exploitation. In this...
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SPI of the month: Sustainable Water Management in Hungary
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Hungary’s second Science–Policy Interface (SPI) focuses on one of the country’s most pressing issues — sustainable water management. It explores how to encourage farmers to work together on collective water resource management and how such collaboration can support more resilient landscapes. Within the VISIONARY project, AKI leads a series of SPI workshops that bring together experts from policy, academia, farming,...
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COMING UP
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In our next newsletter, we will introduce the team from the University of Trento, Italy and continue our series "SPI of the month" on plant-based protein in Denmark. And, of course, report on all things VISIONARY.
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Funded by the European Union under GA no. 101060538. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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The work of UK participants was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant numbers 10037976 (University of Aberdeen) and 10044788 (University of Exeter)].
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