woxx: “Ernährungssouveränität: Transformation des Ernährungssystems”
12th August 2021
Dr. Rachel Reckinger gave an interview for woxx newspaper on the topic of food sovereignty and food system transformation. In the interview she discusses Food Policy Councils and the role that they can have in the transitions towards these two goals, as well as their usual structure and goals, and their adaptability to the national scale in Luxembourg.
Access the article here (German)
Dr. Rachel Reckinger (University of Luxembourg) and Norry Schneider (Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg – CELL) have been instrumental in the scoping out of a nation-wide, participative, Food Policy Council (FPC) for Luxembourg. The idea behind the world’s first national scale FPC is to unite stakeholders from three fields of the food system, with each of them forming on third of FPC members: Production, Transformation and Retail; Policy and Administration; Research and Civil Society. Uniting all stakeholders within the food system will bring about innovation through constructive debates and teamwork and create a more socially and environmentally just, economically sound, high quality local food system.
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