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Launch of the European research network Susfood

Towards sustainable food production and consumption

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INRA is coordinating a new European Era-Net, Susfood, on Sustainable Food Production and Consumption. This programme involves 25 partners from 16 European countries. Its strategic goal is to reinforce the scientific cooperation between EU Member and Associated States in order to maximize the contribution of research to the development of more sustainable food systems from farm to fork.

The Susfood Era-Net is a further step after the INRA-CIRAD foresight study duALIne on sustainable food systems in developed and developing countries and the ANR programme Sustainable Food Systems (Alid). The other French partners are the  ANR (French National Research Agency) and ACTIA (Association de Coordination Technique pour l’Industrie Agro-alimentaire, food network expertise), with support from the French Ministries for Research and Agriculture.

Launched on 27 January 2012, the Susfood Programme will last for 3 years and implement 2 transnational calls. The scientific coordinator is Béatrice Darcy-Vrillon, INRA.

Contacts: Béatrice DARCY-VRILLON, Catherine ESNOUF, Marie RUSSEL

More information:

• duALIne
• Alid (in French)
• Era-Net: the Era-Net programmes are coordination and support actions that aim at stepping up the cooperation and coordination of research activities carried out at national or regional level in the Member States and Associated States.

Written by :  Communicatons Department and Susfood Era-Net
Label for the news :  European network
Date for the news :  2012.01.27
Date of creation : 27/01/2012
Date of last update : 20/02/2012

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