Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Gianluca Brunori, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali 

The PATHWAYS project will deliver co-developed transition pathways that directly address societal demands for increased resilience in the provision of safe, nutritious, affordable livestock-based food, whilst reducing environmental impacts, and supporting the economic sustainability of the European livestock sector. Visions, scenarios and transition pathways will be co-developed through an ambitious participatory approach based on innovative practice hubs, living labs and interaction within a European multi-actor platform and a wider community of practice.

Existing and future, co-designed livestock systems will be characterised and assessed within a scientifically robust, holistic sustainability assessment framework, comprising refined key performance indicators and cutting-edge models, to enhance understanding of productivity, biodiversity, health and welfare, greenhouse gas emissions, human nutrition, trade and economics, and ecosystem service impacts. Living labs and practice hubs will identify bottom-up interventions and adoption routes that will drive a transition to improved livestock system development. Consumer preferences, diet choices and willingness to pay will be supported by consequential LCA and economic analysis of trade and supply chain impacts, addressed through stakeholder input and modelling.

The participatory development and application of a holistic sustainability assessment will deliver a scientifically robust analysis for the co-development of scenarios and transition pathways to inform key stakeholders throughout livestock-based food systems, driving a transition to greater sustainability. PATHWAYS will improve the role of livestock in supporting a circular bioeconomy and the place of animal products in future diets through an interactive online platform and policy toolkit to provide user-friendly instruments for a range of stakeholders.

Coordinator

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET, Sweden

Other participants

• TICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands
• STICHTING AERES GROEP, Netherlands
• AARHUS UNIVERSITET Denmark
• AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
• FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU STIFTUNG, Switzerland
• INSTYTUT UPRAWY NAWOZENIA I GLEBOZNAWSTWA, PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY, Poland
• UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ NAPOCA, Romania
• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• FONDATION INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ET LES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES, France
• Association de Coordination Technique Agricole, France
• PASTURE-FED LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATIONCIC, United Kingdom
• LANDBRUG & FODEVARER F.M.B.A., Denmark
• ASOCIAZIONE ITALIANA ALIMENTI GRASSFED, Italy
• REVOLVE MEDIA, Belgium
• COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA TIBLES-SOMES-MELES, Romania
• THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, United Kingdom
• AGROVAST LIVSMEDEL AKTIEBOLAG, Sweden
• NATURBETESKOTT I SVERIGE, Sweden
• BIODYNAMISCHE FODERATION - DEMETERINTERNATIONAL EV, Germany
• UNION EUROPEENNE DU COMMERCE DU BETAIL ET DE LA VIANDE, Belgium
• FEDERACJA BRANZOWYCH ZWIAZKOW PRODUCENTOW ROLNYCH, Poland
• CORSEVILLA S COOP AND, Spain
• DANONE RESEARCH SAS, France
• ARLA FOODS AMBA, Denmark
• VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, Belgium
• UNIVERSITEIT GENT, Belgium

Start date: 1 September 2021
End date: 31 August 2026
Project cost: € 9 026 907,49
Project funding: € 8 998 906,26
Unipi quota: € 303 942,50
Call title: H2020-FNR-2020-2
Unipi role: Partner
Project website: https://pathways-project.com/