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Invitation to the FAAN workshop - Local Food Systems: practices and strategies

Date: Monday 22 February 2010,
Venue: Brussels

Download registration document and full workshop details (pdf)

This workshop will provide an opportunity for interested stakeholders to
discuss practices and strategies of developing local food systems. The
discussions will be structured around the findings of the research project,
‘Facilitating Alternative Agro-Food Networks (FAAN)

Workshop aims are:

  • to provide a trans-national networking opportunity for stakeholders
    for further co-operation to enhance local food systems;

  • to identify needs for policy changes, civic action, and future research in
    order to support local food systems;

  • to reflect on research findings in a broader context by drawing on
    participants’ knowledge and experience;

  • to engage researchers, policy and practitioner actors from different
    countries who may take up the findings and implications in their
    activities.

Participants.
The workshop will bring together a broad range of expertise and experience
relevant to local food systems. We intend to attract diverse actors, e.g. from
research, policy, agriculture, consumers, and other civil society organisations
engaged in relevant activities.