STOCK TAKING OF ACTIONS AND INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Please fill one form for each initiative reported
Name of the Initiative: Determinants and Impact of Diets: Interactions and
Transitions (DIDIT)
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Individual
X Collective
Respondent
Name: CHERBUT
Surname:Chistine
Email:Christine.cherbut@paris.inra.fr
Organization:INRA
Position:Scientific Director Food, Nutrition and Bioeconomy
Are you responding?
X On behalf on the organization conducting the action/initiative
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As a member of it
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Because you know its existence
Name of the leading organization: INRA
Type of organization:
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National Authority (e.g. Government),
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Local Authorities
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Intergovernmental Organization
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Civil Society
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Non-governmental organizations
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Primary food producers (e.g. farmers, smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk)
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Private Sector (e.g. manufacturer, retailers, industry association, private research, etc)
X Research
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Multistakeholder
o Other:
1
Partners (the case being): National Scientific Research Centre (CRNS); INSERM; CIRAD; Industry;
Consumer organisations
Year of the beginning of the action/ initiative: 2012
The case being, year of end:
Geographical
scope of the
Initiative
Indicate precisely
Local
Input or
Main
service
Targeted
provision
Stage of
Food
Systems
If
appropriate,
indicate
precisely
National
Regional
X
X
Global
Primary
Production
Processing
Distribution
Consumption
(X)
X
X
X
Main dimension(s) addressed (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
X Environment
X Economic
X Social
X Governance
Main issue(s) addressed (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
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Water
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Soil
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Land
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Air
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Climate change
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Biodiversity (including genetic resources)
o
Specific ecosystems, if yes, please precise:
2
4 Food losses and waste
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Energy
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Pollution
1 Food consumption
2 Consumer behavior
3 Nutrition
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Animal welfare
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Fair Trade
6 Rural development
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Land use rights
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Gender issues
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Youth issues
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Employment
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Workers rights and safety
5 Vulnerable groups
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Poverty alleviation
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Other, please specify...
Main instruments used (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
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Projects
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Regulations
5
o
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Policy dialogue
Capacity development
1
Research
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Knowledge dissemination
Advocacy and awareness raising
2 Data collection and sharing
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Training, extension
3 Consumer information
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Voluntary standards, labels
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Payment for environmental services
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Other? If so, please specify:
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Description of the Initiative (in less than 10 lines), including, as appropriate elements on size and
scale of the initiative:
Create pluridisciplinary scientific community in order to promote collaborative
projects with various partenrs in order to inform public policy makers and economic
players on the basis of food choices, dietary practices and consumer behaviors and
on their impacts on health and environment. The programme aims also at providing
and experiencing levers to act on them for making healthy and sustainable choices
the easiest ones for the citizens.
Results: Several research projects are on-going, targeting in particular: food policy;
food consumption biomarkers; development of sustainable sources of proteins for
feed and food; etc.
References ( Literature, web site, reports, etc):
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