About
Circular
Food
Welcome to the Circular Food research and engagement platform! We are a growing group of university scholars who are pursuing engaged research into circular and regenerative agri-food practices.
Our Approach
The most promising solutions to these challenges will emerge from a shift to more diverse, regional food systems that adopt low-carbon and regenerative agriculture principles, engaging consumers to increasingly consume local, sustainable produce.
Circular Food will follow principles of cooperation, resource sharing, value retention and enhancement, leading to multiple, interconnected health benefits.
A circular food system is best achieved through a dynamic process of co-creation at the regional level, addressing multiple environmental, social and economic challenges in a specific geography.
A regional, circular approach provides an opportunity to enhance and coordinate institutional innovations, which other policymakers, researchers and practitioners can learn from. These can then be adapted and tailored to different socio-economic contexts, depending on their place-based health, political and cultural contexts.
Co-design & Co-delivery
We draw on skills and experiences from a broad range of experts and stakeholders to develop our vision. We prefer to conduct engagement and action-oriented research in order to produce real-world progress in the transition towards more circular and sustainable agri-food systems.
We co-design and co-deliver our research together with our partners in order to transform food institutions through interventions in procurement, supply chain collaboration and citizen interaction, radically improving access to locally produced nutritious food, leading to manifold human, environmental and economic health benefits.
Food System Transformation
Many small-scale projects already contribute locally to improving food provisioning, human diets and environmental outcomes, but we now need to increase their scale and scope.
Hence, we focus on working with public and private organisations, influential NGOs and food networks to test new circular food system approaches to deliver multiple health benefits (human, environmental and economic).
Our research insights and practical learning points provide vital impulses for a transformed food system.