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This paper describes a cross-and transdisciplinary approach to develop a multicriteria assessment framework that aims to help organic actors and stakeholders conduct, document and communicate balanced overall assessments of the effects of organic food systems on society and nature. The framework will be based on extensive analyses of existing methods for multicriteria assessment and communication, and the adaptation and development of selected methods to suit organic food systems and the principles organic agriculture. The validity and utility of the framework is secured through involvement of actors and participatory testing of prototypes in practice. The goal is to help sustain an integrated development of the organic production, contribute to open and credible communication, and thereby support long term growth.
... However, increasing concern for environmental sustainability can lead to value conflicts in how consumers prioritise concerns. For example, the rationale for localising food supply chains as a means to increase sustainability by reducing the impacts of 'food miles' can conflict with concerns for the social injustice of international trade and this being an effective route towards sustainable development for poorer countries (Alrøe and Kjeldsen, 2006;Ayres et al., 2008). ...
January 2006
... From this perspective, agriculture and food systems are vulnerable socio-ecological systems with crucial elements, such as soil, crops, livestock, ecosystems, values and institutions that must be reproduced over time. The development of modern food systems and markets, by contrast, is based on functional differentiation where inputs and foods are produced wherever it is most profitable, and this leads to distanciation and disembedding of food networks in time and space (see also Kjeldsen and Alrøe, 2006). ...
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How to measure and regulate localness?
January 2006
... If the semantic of sustainability should succumb to 535 the temptation to be institutionalized as a functional system, for instance by way of establishing a fixed in- 536 dexation system (e.g. in the form of an indicator system) that sums up to a single relative or absolute sustain- 537 ability scale, the semantic will stiffen and thereby also loose the value and contents of the indicators, and the 538 value as a media for structural coupling. This paradox is one of the main challenges in projects that aim to 539 develop assessment tools to be used as generalized media based on "holistic" semantics such as sustainability 540 and organics (Alrøe and Noe 2011). In the Core Organic project HealthyGrowth, involving ten European 541 partners, we are looking deeper into the challenges of organizing organic value based food networks on the 542 polyocular semantic of organic agriculture. ...
... As established, knowledge in complex environments such as ARO cannot be produced in disciplinary isolation but will directly or indirectly link to other actors (Alrøe & Noe, 2014;Callon, 1986;Knorr-Cetina, 1992). The scientific data generated from the field research centres, the domes, laboratories, field surveys and global partners provided focused disciplinary outputs on underutilized crops even with collaboration with actors from various communities of knowledge, which could not have been possible without the pivotal roles and support of the supporting actors in finance, human resources, communications, monitoring, corporate services unit of the organization. ...