Project: Scenarios and pathways toward sustainable land-use and food production for Western and the Nordic European countries as part of the global FABLE Consortium

Acronym	NorthWesternPaths (Reference Number: SC5-30-2017)
Duration	01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
Project Topic	The program aims to create an EU/Nordic community of practice (CoP) as a unique self-governed network of leading knowledge institutions tasked with supporting the design of integrated pathways towards sustainable food and land-use systems consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (including the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) and implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement. The pathways developed by this community aim to identify the extent to which investments and action on (a) reducing food waste, (b) strict management of land and water resources, (c) dietary shifts (d) sustainable intensification of agriculture and (e) trade enable CoP countries to meet national climate, conservation, water quality, and public health commitments. It will operate as part of the global FABLE (1) network led by UN-SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and IIASA including 20 additional countries in the America’s, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The global FABLE analyses assess international spillover effects to help countries determine the impact of their policies on other countries and to anticipate impacts on their land-use and food systems that may emanate from developments in other countries. In this way, the EuroNordic FABLE will pursue science-based modeling frameworks, targets and pathways that countries can use to assess policies relating to land-use and food systems. Further, and as part of the global FABLE network, they will help align the ambition of national pathways with the SDGs and the commitment to keep the rise in average global temperatures to “well below 2°C”. The partners propose an integrated program including three work streams: (1) the development of national and regional pathways to sustainable food and land use systems, (2) scoping with national and regional partners to identify pathway narratives, (3) integration of Nordic EU pathways into global models pursued by the FABLE network. A small secretariat led by Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) will coordinate the Nordic-Central EU partnership, including its contribution to the Global FABLE network which operates as part of the broader Food and Land-Use Coalition to provide the integrated analysis that can support policymakers, business leaders, and civil society in undertaking the deep transformations needed to achieve sustainable food and land-use systems.
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Network	AXIS
Call	AXIS Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects 2018

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Stockholm University	Coordinator	Sweden
2	Stockholm University	Partner	Sweden
3	RISE Research Institute of Sweden	Partner	Sweden
4	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Partner	Sweden
5	University of Hamburg	Partner	Germany
6	CICERO Center for International Climate Research	Partner	Norway