2021 tavaszán az Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat Ökológiai Kutatóközpontja és a Budapesti Corvinus... more 2021 tavaszán az Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat Ökológiai Kutatóközpontja és a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem közötti hároméves pályázati együttműködés tette lehetővé interdiszciplináris kutatásunk megvalósulását. Empirikus kutatásunk célja annak feltérképezése volt, hogy a városi zöldterületeken tett séta hogyan járul hozzá a demenciával élő betegek és az őket gondozó családtagjaik jóllétének megőrzéséhez. MódszerA kutatás során többféle módszertant alkalmaztunk a téma vizsgálatára. Először egy sétainterjút végeztünk a gondozó-gondozott diádokkal, majd a gondozó hozzátartozók 1 hónapon keresztül naplót vezettek a sétáik alatti történésekről, élményeikről. A naplózás kvalitatív módszertanát egy rövid kérdőív formájában kvantitatív mérési módszerrel is kiegészítettük. Előadásunkban elsődlegesen a kvantitatív eredményeket mutatjuk be, illetve az ezeket alátámasztó napló bejegyzésekből szemezgetünk. A kutatótársnak tekintetett gondozó hozzátartozókkal legvégül egy fókuszcsoportos beszélget...
D1.2 Report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen soc... more D1.2 Report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen social science [m11] stems from the work, that has been conducted under WP1. This report describes the conceptual framework for youth involved citizen social science in the YouCount project. Moreover, the report presents the use of citizen social science as a mean for social innovation, highlights the dialogical framework for co-creative youth citizen social science, explores the conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation of the outcomes, and discusses ethical considerations and risk mitigation strategies when conducting youth involved citizen social science. The conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework is a starting point for setting a strategy of empirical research and, as a living document, will be developed during the implementation of the YouCount project.
New European Union level scenarios have been developed in the FP7 project OpenNESS to fill a them... more New European Union level scenarios have been developed in the FP7 project OpenNESS to fill a thematic gap in existing broad-scale environmental scenarios to assess the uncertainties and risks of different drivers of change for natural capital and ecosystem service provision. The scenarios are aiming at applicability for science and policy-making at different scales, including the European level and regional and local scales. The scenarios are going beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios, making broader assumptions in covering different types of ecosystem services, and different pathways of ecosystem services provision, including risks of ecosystem service losses. The main research question is addressing uncertainties and risks related to land-use change, exemplified via impacts on a provisioning and a regulating service. The approach is based on participatory scenario development and integrated modelling with the CLIMSAVE modelling framework. Four scenarios were developed (WealthBeing, UnitedWeStand, EcoCentre, RuralRevival). Simulations of the combinations of driving forces caused land-use changes up to +65% for forest, or −37% for grassland, both in UnitedWeStand. The most extreme changes highlighted here for scenario UnitedWeStand can mainly be attributed to the highest increase in irrigation efficiency (+58%) and crop yields (+50%), an almost constant human population in Europe (+1%), moderate increases in meat demands (+10%) and increasing food imports (+10%). In terms of ecosystem services provision, no clear winners and losers could be identified in the four scenarios, but rather different mixes of trade-offs and synergies. Thus, drivers within Europe as well as trade with land-intensive commodities and the policies steering them contribute to lower or increased pressures and risks of ecosystem services loss, e.g., on agricultural land in Europe and the countries of trading partners.
This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative... more This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative social innovation (TSI) that have been developed as part of an EU-funded research project entitled “TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory” (TRANSIT; 2014-2017). These TSI propositions represent first steps towards the development of a new theory of TSI, taking the form of proto-explanations of the agency and dynamics of TSI, based on the bringing together of our empirical observations on TSI and the project's theoretical reviews and theoretical framings. Ideally this working paper should be read in conjunction with the working paper entitled “A framework for transformative social innovation” (Haxeltine et al 2016) which presents in skeletal terms the theoretical and conceptual framing of TSI developed in the TRANSIT project. This TSI framework builds on sustainability transition studies, social innovation research, social psychology studies of empowerment and other several other a...
In recent years, debates have strongly resurfaced whether it is at all possible to approach susta... more In recent years, debates have strongly resurfaced whether it is at all possible to approach sustainability within an economic, social and political system that places the idea of growth in the centre of attention. Many envision – including the present authors – that solutions to such complex issues can now only be handled by finding suitable transition paths to alternative paradigms and institutional settings moving beyond the concept of economic growth. The idea of a steady-state or de-growth economy does not project the idea of a stationary state (Daly, 1977; Kallis et al, 2012). In such an economy, the combination and ratio of the four valueproducing capitals (natural, social, human, and man-made) would also be continuously changing, only welfare would rely more on the qualitative gratification and less on the quantitative expansion of material and energy-intensive transformations. However, the most challenging question is how this transition from our current economic paradigm to...
Recent research has increasingly focussed on whether long-term policies for adaptation to climate... more Recent research has increasingly focussed on whether long-term policies for adaptation to climate change are robust given uncertainties about future climate change, technological advances and alternative socioeconomic development pathways. The aim of this study was to examine whether adaptation responses are 'robust', by looking at whether they reduce vulnerability to climate and socioeconomic changes for a selection of ecosystem services across scenarios and two spatial scales: Europe (EU27 plus Norway and Switzerland) and a case study in Scotland. Outputs of the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform (IAP) for multiple land-based sectors were used to test whether clusters of adaptation options referred to as policy archetypes reduced vulnerability to climate and socioeconomic change for ecosystem service indicators related to biodiversity, flooding, water exploitation, land use diversity, land use intensity and food provision. The results show that the People-based Adaptation archetype is the most robust. This is because it reduces vulnerability by increasing coping capacity (people learn and build networks) and not only by reducing the impacts of climate and socioeconomic change. By allowing comparative levels of vulnerability to be explored across sectors and scenarios, the CLIMSAVE approach provides a flexible tool for decision-makers and other stakeholders to increase understanding of which mixes of adaptation measures are robust responses to climate change.
Sustainable consumption as a complex phenomenon at the boundaries of different (ecological, econo... more Sustainable consumption as a complex phenomenon at the boundaries of different (ecological, economic, social) systems requires theoretical approaches that do justice to its complex causality and dynamism. Participatory systems mapping offers a tool to achieve this purpose. Its policy relevance lies in its ability to include diverse views, multiple actors, and offer options for policy intervention. The research reported here applied participatory systems mapping in order to define and identify system boundaries for sustainable consumption and uncover perceived causal relationships among the determining factors of sustainable consumption. By revealing the mental models of an expert and a conscious consumer panel on sustainable consumption in general, we can shed light on the cognitive constructions of sustainable consumption and identify most important boundaries that were chosen and their implications on policy-making. The expert panel framed the boundaries as lack of sustainable consumption, while the conscious consumer panel employed a positive framing as strong communities in sustainable consumption. The two panels also differed in their focus on scale: Experts targeted the national scale, while conscious consumers concentrated at the local scale.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 28, 2023
This document is deliverable of the BioAgora project, funded under the European Union's Horizon E... more This document is deliverable of the BioAgora project, funded under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101059438. BioAgora-EU-HE Grant Agreement N° 101059438 Typology of challenges-BioAgora-Deliverable 1.1. 8/56 4.7.1. Evidence from scientific literature ..
ABSZTRAKT: Nemzetközi felmérések, valamint hazai kutatások egyaránt rámutatnak arra, hogy az euró... more ABSZTRAKT: Nemzetközi felmérések, valamint hazai kutatások egyaránt rámutatnak arra, hogy az európai és a hazai cigány lakosság zöme a társadalom leghátrányosabb helyzetű csoportjai közé tartozik. A cigányság esetében a társadalmi hátrányok és a térbeli szegregáció sok esetben összekapcsolódnak. Tanulmányunk középpontjában a fenti problémához kapcsolódó szegedi esettanulmány áll. 2011 eleje óta részvételi akciókutatási folyamat keretében együttműködünk helyi roma vezetőkkel és helyi szegregátumokban élő családokkal. Együttműködésünk célja kettős: kutatóként egyrészt érvényes tudást szeretnénk létrehozni a cigányság (helyi szintű) társadalmi integrációjáról, másrészt e tudást a gyakorlatban is tesztelve szeretnénk közösen hozzájárulni az integrációhoz. Az elmúlt bő három év során számos kutatási eredménnyel, tapasztalattal gazdagodtunk a helyi társadalmi kirekesztéssel és integrációval, annak területi-térbeli vetületeivel, valamint a helyi politikai döntések és a társadalomtudomány viszonyával kapcsolatban. Tanulmányunkban néhány, a témát érintő általános kutatás-módszertani és-etikai kérdés mellett kitérünk arra, hogyan függ össze a térbeli szegregáció a társadalmi hátrányokkal, hogyan befolyásolják azt a helyi politikai folyamatok, valamint írunk a társadalomkutatással szembeni követelményekről, amennyiben az a részvételi brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Repository of the Academy's Library Részvételi akciókutatással a társadalmi kirekesztés ellen: egy szegedi példa tanulságai 67 akciókutatás megközelítése mentén a társadalmi integráció kérdésével foglalkozik. Következtetésünk, hogy a részvételi akciókutatás megközelítése a társadalomkutatást új kihívások elé állítja, és a társadalmi integrációval foglalkozó részvételi akciókutatás könnyen azt eredményezheti, hogy a kutató "objektív", "kívülálló", "független" szakértőből helyi politikai szereplővé válik. Ez azonban nem a szakértői-kutatói szerep megváltozását, pusztán a kutatói szerep mögött szükségszerűen megjelenő érdek-és értéktartalom nyílttá tételét jelenti.
Large international surveys and regional and national (Hungarian) examinations all show that the ... more Large international surveys and regional and national (Hungarian) examinations all show that the vast majority of the European and Hungarian Roma population belongs to the most disadvantaged groups of society. Furthermore, social disadvantages and spatial segregation are often connected. Our paper is based on a case study carried out in Szeged (Hungary) in relation to the problems mentioned. In Szeged, university researchers and social activists have been working together with local Roma leaders and Roma families living in segregated areas (segregates) from the beginning of 2011 within the framework of participatory action research. As a participatory action research-type research process our cooperation has two strongly interconnected goals. First, we aim to generate valuable knowledge about the social integration of Roma. Second, we aim to contribute to local social integration processes by testing our knowledge in practice through actions in the field. Based on our ongoing work, we gained valuable research experience regarding local social segregation and integration and its spatial aspects, and the role of scientific research and researchers in this area. In our study we give an overview of these experiences. Besides introducing some general questions and (ethical) dilemmas regarding social science research dealing with social segregation/integration, we examine how social and spatial integration are interconnected and the requirements social scientists have to meet if they deal with social integration issues within the framework of participatory action research. Our conclusions are that participatory action research sets new challenges for social researchers-because of its action component, for example-and participatory action research dealing with local social integration of the Roma might cause "objective", "outsider" or "independent" researchers turning into local political actors. However, this "turn" does not necessarily mean a real change in the role of experts, but it rather means that interests and values necessarily appearing behind scientific research are made explicit in the process of participatory action research.
This chapter analyses the bottom-up networking for food sovereignty in Hungary that has succeeded... more This chapter analyses the bottom-up networking for food sovereignty in Hungary that has succeeded in transforming the regulations for local food systems. Following a cooperative research approach, a cooperation of researchers and practitioners shaped the agenda of the Food Sovereignty Network in Hungary. The chapter describes how researchers, practitioners and CSOs successfully launched an advocacy campaign for the modification of the Smallholder Decree that was adopted by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development jointly with the Ministries of Health and Social Affairs and Employment in 2006. The new smallholder decree is more favourable for small farmers and enables them to take full advantage of the continued use of traditional methods at any stage of production, processing or distribution of food specified by regulation on the hygiene of foodstuffs. We argue that cooperative research is a suitable approach to build links and strengthen collaboration between scientific and practice-based knowledge production, to explore common problem framings and, furthermore, to initiate meaningful policy change through co-creating an evidence base and collective actions for policy change. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the key promises and challenges of our cooperative research approach, combining critical and practical impacts towards structural change.
§ This research project was financed by the National Council for Sustainable Development of Hunga... more § This research project was financed by the National Council for Sustainable Development of Hungary. We gratefully acknowledge the personal support of Dr. Gá bor Bartus and the members of the Environmental Social Science Research Group. We wish to thank the participants of the backcasting workshop for devoting their time and sharing their insights with us. Responsibility for all errors and omissions rests with the present authors.
2021 tavaszán az Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat Ökológiai Kutatóközpontja és a Budapesti Corvinus... more 2021 tavaszán az Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat Ökológiai Kutatóközpontja és a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem közötti hároméves pályázati együttműködés tette lehetővé interdiszciplináris kutatásunk megvalósulását. Empirikus kutatásunk célja annak feltérképezése volt, hogy a városi zöldterületeken tett séta hogyan járul hozzá a demenciával élő betegek és az őket gondozó családtagjaik jóllétének megőrzéséhez. MódszerA kutatás során többféle módszertant alkalmaztunk a téma vizsgálatára. Először egy sétainterjút végeztünk a gondozó-gondozott diádokkal, majd a gondozó hozzátartozók 1 hónapon keresztül naplót vezettek a sétáik alatti történésekről, élményeikről. A naplózás kvalitatív módszertanát egy rövid kérdőív formájában kvantitatív mérési módszerrel is kiegészítettük. Előadásunkban elsődlegesen a kvantitatív eredményeket mutatjuk be, illetve az ezeket alátámasztó napló bejegyzésekből szemezgetünk. A kutatótársnak tekintetett gondozó hozzátartozókkal legvégül egy fókuszcsoportos beszélget...
D1.2 Report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen soc... more D1.2 Report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen social science [m11] stems from the work, that has been conducted under WP1. This report describes the conceptual framework for youth involved citizen social science in the YouCount project. Moreover, the report presents the use of citizen social science as a mean for social innovation, highlights the dialogical framework for co-creative youth citizen social science, explores the conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation of the outcomes, and discusses ethical considerations and risk mitigation strategies when conducting youth involved citizen social science. The conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework is a starting point for setting a strategy of empirical research and, as a living document, will be developed during the implementation of the YouCount project.
New European Union level scenarios have been developed in the FP7 project OpenNESS to fill a them... more New European Union level scenarios have been developed in the FP7 project OpenNESS to fill a thematic gap in existing broad-scale environmental scenarios to assess the uncertainties and risks of different drivers of change for natural capital and ecosystem service provision. The scenarios are aiming at applicability for science and policy-making at different scales, including the European level and regional and local scales. The scenarios are going beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios, making broader assumptions in covering different types of ecosystem services, and different pathways of ecosystem services provision, including risks of ecosystem service losses. The main research question is addressing uncertainties and risks related to land-use change, exemplified via impacts on a provisioning and a regulating service. The approach is based on participatory scenario development and integrated modelling with the CLIMSAVE modelling framework. Four scenarios were developed (WealthBeing, UnitedWeStand, EcoCentre, RuralRevival). Simulations of the combinations of driving forces caused land-use changes up to +65% for forest, or −37% for grassland, both in UnitedWeStand. The most extreme changes highlighted here for scenario UnitedWeStand can mainly be attributed to the highest increase in irrigation efficiency (+58%) and crop yields (+50%), an almost constant human population in Europe (+1%), moderate increases in meat demands (+10%) and increasing food imports (+10%). In terms of ecosystem services provision, no clear winners and losers could be identified in the four scenarios, but rather different mixes of trade-offs and synergies. Thus, drivers within Europe as well as trade with land-intensive commodities and the policies steering them contribute to lower or increased pressures and risks of ecosystem services loss, e.g., on agricultural land in Europe and the countries of trading partners.
This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative... more This working paper presents a set of propositions about the agency and dynamics of transformative social innovation (TSI) that have been developed as part of an EU-funded research project entitled “TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory” (TRANSIT; 2014-2017). These TSI propositions represent first steps towards the development of a new theory of TSI, taking the form of proto-explanations of the agency and dynamics of TSI, based on the bringing together of our empirical observations on TSI and the project's theoretical reviews and theoretical framings. Ideally this working paper should be read in conjunction with the working paper entitled “A framework for transformative social innovation” (Haxeltine et al 2016) which presents in skeletal terms the theoretical and conceptual framing of TSI developed in the TRANSIT project. This TSI framework builds on sustainability transition studies, social innovation research, social psychology studies of empowerment and other several other a...
In recent years, debates have strongly resurfaced whether it is at all possible to approach susta... more In recent years, debates have strongly resurfaced whether it is at all possible to approach sustainability within an economic, social and political system that places the idea of growth in the centre of attention. Many envision – including the present authors – that solutions to such complex issues can now only be handled by finding suitable transition paths to alternative paradigms and institutional settings moving beyond the concept of economic growth. The idea of a steady-state or de-growth economy does not project the idea of a stationary state (Daly, 1977; Kallis et al, 2012). In such an economy, the combination and ratio of the four valueproducing capitals (natural, social, human, and man-made) would also be continuously changing, only welfare would rely more on the qualitative gratification and less on the quantitative expansion of material and energy-intensive transformations. However, the most challenging question is how this transition from our current economic paradigm to...
Recent research has increasingly focussed on whether long-term policies for adaptation to climate... more Recent research has increasingly focussed on whether long-term policies for adaptation to climate change are robust given uncertainties about future climate change, technological advances and alternative socioeconomic development pathways. The aim of this study was to examine whether adaptation responses are 'robust', by looking at whether they reduce vulnerability to climate and socioeconomic changes for a selection of ecosystem services across scenarios and two spatial scales: Europe (EU27 plus Norway and Switzerland) and a case study in Scotland. Outputs of the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform (IAP) for multiple land-based sectors were used to test whether clusters of adaptation options referred to as policy archetypes reduced vulnerability to climate and socioeconomic change for ecosystem service indicators related to biodiversity, flooding, water exploitation, land use diversity, land use intensity and food provision. The results show that the People-based Adaptation archetype is the most robust. This is because it reduces vulnerability by increasing coping capacity (people learn and build networks) and not only by reducing the impacts of climate and socioeconomic change. By allowing comparative levels of vulnerability to be explored across sectors and scenarios, the CLIMSAVE approach provides a flexible tool for decision-makers and other stakeholders to increase understanding of which mixes of adaptation measures are robust responses to climate change.
Sustainable consumption as a complex phenomenon at the boundaries of different (ecological, econo... more Sustainable consumption as a complex phenomenon at the boundaries of different (ecological, economic, social) systems requires theoretical approaches that do justice to its complex causality and dynamism. Participatory systems mapping offers a tool to achieve this purpose. Its policy relevance lies in its ability to include diverse views, multiple actors, and offer options for policy intervention. The research reported here applied participatory systems mapping in order to define and identify system boundaries for sustainable consumption and uncover perceived causal relationships among the determining factors of sustainable consumption. By revealing the mental models of an expert and a conscious consumer panel on sustainable consumption in general, we can shed light on the cognitive constructions of sustainable consumption and identify most important boundaries that were chosen and their implications on policy-making. The expert panel framed the boundaries as lack of sustainable consumption, while the conscious consumer panel employed a positive framing as strong communities in sustainable consumption. The two panels also differed in their focus on scale: Experts targeted the national scale, while conscious consumers concentrated at the local scale.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 28, 2023
This document is deliverable of the BioAgora project, funded under the European Union's Horizon E... more This document is deliverable of the BioAgora project, funded under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101059438. BioAgora-EU-HE Grant Agreement N° 101059438 Typology of challenges-BioAgora-Deliverable 1.1. 8/56 4.7.1. Evidence from scientific literature ..
ABSZTRAKT: Nemzetközi felmérések, valamint hazai kutatások egyaránt rámutatnak arra, hogy az euró... more ABSZTRAKT: Nemzetközi felmérések, valamint hazai kutatások egyaránt rámutatnak arra, hogy az európai és a hazai cigány lakosság zöme a társadalom leghátrányosabb helyzetű csoportjai közé tartozik. A cigányság esetében a társadalmi hátrányok és a térbeli szegregáció sok esetben összekapcsolódnak. Tanulmányunk középpontjában a fenti problémához kapcsolódó szegedi esettanulmány áll. 2011 eleje óta részvételi akciókutatási folyamat keretében együttműködünk helyi roma vezetőkkel és helyi szegregátumokban élő családokkal. Együttműködésünk célja kettős: kutatóként egyrészt érvényes tudást szeretnénk létrehozni a cigányság (helyi szintű) társadalmi integrációjáról, másrészt e tudást a gyakorlatban is tesztelve szeretnénk közösen hozzájárulni az integrációhoz. Az elmúlt bő három év során számos kutatási eredménnyel, tapasztalattal gazdagodtunk a helyi társadalmi kirekesztéssel és integrációval, annak területi-térbeli vetületeivel, valamint a helyi politikai döntések és a társadalomtudomány viszonyával kapcsolatban. Tanulmányunkban néhány, a témát érintő általános kutatás-módszertani és-etikai kérdés mellett kitérünk arra, hogyan függ össze a térbeli szegregáció a társadalmi hátrányokkal, hogyan befolyásolják azt a helyi politikai folyamatok, valamint írunk a társadalomkutatással szembeni követelményekről, amennyiben az a részvételi brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Repository of the Academy's Library Részvételi akciókutatással a társadalmi kirekesztés ellen: egy szegedi példa tanulságai 67 akciókutatás megközelítése mentén a társadalmi integráció kérdésével foglalkozik. Következtetésünk, hogy a részvételi akciókutatás megközelítése a társadalomkutatást új kihívások elé állítja, és a társadalmi integrációval foglalkozó részvételi akciókutatás könnyen azt eredményezheti, hogy a kutató "objektív", "kívülálló", "független" szakértőből helyi politikai szereplővé válik. Ez azonban nem a szakértői-kutatói szerep megváltozását, pusztán a kutatói szerep mögött szükségszerűen megjelenő érdek-és értéktartalom nyílttá tételét jelenti.
Large international surveys and regional and national (Hungarian) examinations all show that the ... more Large international surveys and regional and national (Hungarian) examinations all show that the vast majority of the European and Hungarian Roma population belongs to the most disadvantaged groups of society. Furthermore, social disadvantages and spatial segregation are often connected. Our paper is based on a case study carried out in Szeged (Hungary) in relation to the problems mentioned. In Szeged, university researchers and social activists have been working together with local Roma leaders and Roma families living in segregated areas (segregates) from the beginning of 2011 within the framework of participatory action research. As a participatory action research-type research process our cooperation has two strongly interconnected goals. First, we aim to generate valuable knowledge about the social integration of Roma. Second, we aim to contribute to local social integration processes by testing our knowledge in practice through actions in the field. Based on our ongoing work, we gained valuable research experience regarding local social segregation and integration and its spatial aspects, and the role of scientific research and researchers in this area. In our study we give an overview of these experiences. Besides introducing some general questions and (ethical) dilemmas regarding social science research dealing with social segregation/integration, we examine how social and spatial integration are interconnected and the requirements social scientists have to meet if they deal with social integration issues within the framework of participatory action research. Our conclusions are that participatory action research sets new challenges for social researchers-because of its action component, for example-and participatory action research dealing with local social integration of the Roma might cause "objective", "outsider" or "independent" researchers turning into local political actors. However, this "turn" does not necessarily mean a real change in the role of experts, but it rather means that interests and values necessarily appearing behind scientific research are made explicit in the process of participatory action research.
This chapter analyses the bottom-up networking for food sovereignty in Hungary that has succeeded... more This chapter analyses the bottom-up networking for food sovereignty in Hungary that has succeeded in transforming the regulations for local food systems. Following a cooperative research approach, a cooperation of researchers and practitioners shaped the agenda of the Food Sovereignty Network in Hungary. The chapter describes how researchers, practitioners and CSOs successfully launched an advocacy campaign for the modification of the Smallholder Decree that was adopted by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development jointly with the Ministries of Health and Social Affairs and Employment in 2006. The new smallholder decree is more favourable for small farmers and enables them to take full advantage of the continued use of traditional methods at any stage of production, processing or distribution of food specified by regulation on the hygiene of foodstuffs. We argue that cooperative research is a suitable approach to build links and strengthen collaboration between scientific and practice-based knowledge production, to explore common problem framings and, furthermore, to initiate meaningful policy change through co-creating an evidence base and collective actions for policy change. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the key promises and challenges of our cooperative research approach, combining critical and practical impacts towards structural change.
§ This research project was financed by the National Council for Sustainable Development of Hunga... more § This research project was financed by the National Council for Sustainable Development of Hungary. We gratefully acknowledge the personal support of Dr. Gá bor Bartus and the members of the Environmental Social Science Research Group. We wish to thank the participants of the backcasting workshop for devoting their time and sharing their insights with us. Responsibility for all errors and omissions rests with the present authors.
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