A look back at the 3rd Sustainable Food Meeting!

From January to March 2021, the 3rd Sustainable Food Meetings brought together more than 1,700 participants from the world of associations, research, companies and the public sector. Three projects emerged during these exchanges, benefiting from the collective emulation and the richness of points of view. Find the illustrated summary of this event as well as the videos and associated resources in the proceedings available now!

Sharing experiences, accelerating transitions

What food systems can we build to prepare for and respond to future crises? This was the central question that brought participants together in this particular momentum we are experiencing, marked by major challenges but also unprecedented opportunities. Two key words guided the discussions: urgency and synergies.

” The 3rd Sustainable Food Meetings were an opportunity, despite the constraints linked to the Covid crisis, to bring together a large community of actors committed to the metamorphosis of food systems ,” says Clément Cheissoux, Sustainable Food Program Manager France at the Foundation. ” In this difficult period, we wanted to create links around concrete courses of action, by favouring a participatory approach, without losing sight of the diversity of the crucial challenges we face. The crises, particularly health and climate crises, which have serious social consequences, remind us of the urgency of acting together. »

“Designed to offer real spaces for sharing and exchange, the Rencontres are themselves the result of a co-construction,” says Marie-Stéphane-Maradeix, General Delegate of the Foundation. “Since the first edition, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation has been developing this event with partners who play a major role, through their expertise and their specific fields of research or action, in anchoring it at the heart of the challenges and realities of sustainable food stakeholders.”

The ambition shared with our partners (Ademe, Banque des Territoires/Caisse des Dépôts Group, INRAE, the UNESCO Chair in World Food and AgroParisTech) is to “create a community to create a society.” The success of this event, which brought together more than 1,700 participants, attests to the strengths of cooperation and invites us to continue our collaborations.

A restitution in the form of a learning notebook

Taking into account the health situation, this^3rd edition of the Rencontres was designed entirely online through 9 conference sessions, round tables and workshops combining knowledge sharing and exchange of practices. These meetings were a privileged working space for the large community of sustainable food stakeholders, driven by the desire for an agroecological, democratic and inclusive transition, which supports or carries out many initiatives in favour of a fairer, more inclusive and environmentally friendly agricultural and food system. Together, we shared the findings and challenges to be met, then identified principles and courses of action to build synergies.

We suggest that you find these discussions in a summary document in the form of an illustrated notebook, enriched with videos and resources associated with the topics invested.

The challenge of collective intelligence: 3 projects in the pipeline

These 3rd Meetings aimed in particular to bring out multi-stakeholder projects that meet significant and priority needs. This collective intelligence process, carried out in vivo during sessions with more than 80 participants, has given rise to project ideas bringing together civil society organisations, local authorities and businesses.

We support 3 of these collective projects in incubation, by providing financial but also human resources with support in expertise, animation and skills by the association Les Chaudronneries, a group of actors specializing in territorial cooperation. The objective in the coming months is to allow these projects to become a reality, to be deployed and to meet the needs identified during the Conference.