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THALLA Project
Achieving Agro-ecological Resilient Dynamism for the Greek food system through consumer-driven policies, socio-ecological challenges, biodiversity, data-driven policy, sustainable futures.
A real-time surveillance & early warning system, part of a pan-European Living Lab network for assuring food security.
Project Overview
Thriving Agroecology Living Lab (thalla.org) project aims to co-create, explore, develop and examine in real-settings scenarios dealing with food security, biodiversity and climate change challenges applied on five key selected product types (Honey, industrial tomato, cereals, olives, fish & aquaculture) in central Greece, leading to contingency planning that integrates economic, social, and environmental aspects as well as policy recommendations at regional, country and EU level, in order to strengthen food systems' resilience. Following an open innovation approach and based on agroecology practices, and LLs co-design methods and tools, a set of short- and long-term local case studies of relevant solutions will be provided. Building on the quadruple and quintuple helix approach (policy makers, research, citizens, farmers and food processors), a dynamic monitoring and early warning system will be established to share knowledge, nurture a community of practices, raise open public dialogue, enhance citizenship engagement and change customer preferences.
Objectives
- To actively engage all food systems stakeholders in thalla.org's LL COP and as active agents contributing to the formation of a monitoring and early warning system (MEWS)
- To co-create model-based scenarios and test innovative alternative solutions enhancing selected food systems resilience and competitiveness
- To support the adoption of evidence-based contingency plans and policy recommendations
- To design a sustainability plan for THALLA
Work Process
Work Packages
Community
Community of Practices (CoP), Monitoring & Early Warning System (MEWs)
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Planning
Co-designing activities, identification of key drivers and uncertainties of food security
Scenarios
Co-creating scenarios of the future about climate change and food security
Experimentation
To conduct behavioral experiments and to enrich and test the scenarios in real life settings
Plans & Policies
- Contingency plans, resilience strategies and policy recommendations on a regional level
Dissemination
Dissemination, exploitation and Communication of THALLA’s results on all target groups
PM & QA
Project management, quality assurance, research ethics and THALLA’s sustainability plan
Locations
Central Greece & Thessaly
Organic address a range of simply application and infrastructure this of passages of available, but the majority have suffered poor alteration in some form.
- Sterea Allada (central Greece) in one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece
- The Gross domestic product (GDP) of Central Greece accounts for close to 5% of the national economic output
- Significant agricultural production - 10% of the total farmlands of Greece are located in this region
- Agriculture in Central Greece is rapidly declinin
- In the last 10 years the number of farms and the total agricultural land were reduced by 25%
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Methods & Tools
Smart, innovative and effective methods and tools of multi-actor participative decision making.
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