CFPs: Social Solutions for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems (Denmark)

In recognition of the critical role that land users, businesses, policy makers, customers, users, citizens and consumers play in shaping and influencing both social and systems components of the agri-food sector, this call specifically calls for an SSH approach to accelerating the green transition in the Danish agri-food system.

This call specifically invites proposals considering SSH perspectives on social processes and interactions connecting societies, ecosystems, and biophysical aspects within agri-food systems.

Theme 

• Projects with a focus on social sciences and humanities (SSH) as a cross-cutting issue for accelerating implementation of climate solutions and transition to sustainable agri-food systems towards 2030 and 2050.

Objectives

• The main goal of this call is to encourage projects that enhance the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the agri-food system. Proposals should demonstrate a clear point of departure in SSH theory and methodologies towards research, development, and implementation strategies, contributing to more and faster sustainable solutions through improved knowledge of relationships between sociocultural and other facets of the agri-food system.

Focus Areas

• Projects should address one or more of the four key focus areas outlined below.
  • Interdisciplinary Research: If relevant, integrate with relevant fields in the natural and technical sciences, such as agronomy, land use and food science, to address challenges and opportunities in agri-food systems, with a view to obtain permanent sustainable change.
  • Community Engagement: Community involvement, motivation through meaningful interaction and co-creation by integrating for example local knowledge, cultural perspectives, and social considerations into the design and execution of agri-food interventions.
  • Policy Impact: Research outcomes can inform for example evidence-based policy recommendations, ensure alignment with social and human dimensions of agri-food. Also consider the impact public policy and regulation bodies can have on affecting the decision making of investors, producers, and users.
  • Capacity Building: Activities that build the capacity of local stakeholders, for example farmers, consumers, and policymakers, in utilizing SSH approaches for effective problem-solving.

Funding Information

• Total budget for this call: Minimum 18M DKK
• Investment per project: 4-8M DKK.
• Project duration: 1-3 years

Project Criteria

• Projects must be related to the AgriFoodTure roadmap and provide details on their link to the roadmap in the application.
• Projects should exhibit significant potential to create impact, whether in the short or long term, aligned with the mission goals with specific emphasis on impact on individual, organizational and/or societal level.
• Projects should have a SSH point of departure, engage diverse stakeholders, and, if relevant, demonstrate collaboration across disciplines.
• Projects should raise the SRL and enable societal scaling.
• As a mission-driven partnership, AgriFoodTure emphasizes the importance of not only achieving project goals but also effectively communicating the outcomes and the overarching mission. Therefore, all projects are asked to include in their budget a modest allocation for the dissemination of results and the promotion of the mission throughout the project period.

Who can apply?

• Companies, research institutions, public institutions, and civil society organizations in or outside Denmark and directly involved in the project activities are eligible to apply, participate and receive funding. The lead applicant must hold a Danish CVR number.
• To be considered, a project should consist of partners that are active participants in both the design of the project, the realization of the project and the active implementation of the results from the project. Relevant collaborations across companies, research institutions, public institutions, and civil society organizations must also be striven for.
• Please note, in parallel to this call, there is also a call for Cutting-edge research and innovation with high potentials for a sustainable agri-food system with a focus on profound and potentially high impact, where project partnerships challenge existing norms through introducing novel technologies, processes, or business models.

For more information, visit AgriFoodTure.