DEMETRA

THE PROJECT

The DEMETRA project aims to deal with sustainable food governance in urban contexts to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal and the ‘Farm to Fork’ Strategy.

This 42-months (May 2024 – November 2027) project is funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe framework programme.

THE OBJECTIVES

DEMETRA focuses on enhancing the inclusion and empowerment of citizens in democratically governed food system transformation by analyzing, developing, and implementing novel deliberative and participatory processes (DPPs), in terms of their quality of deliberation, inclusiveness, and empowerment of politically engaged participants.

DEMETRA pursues 4 narrower objectives: 

1. A critical analysis of the micro-, meso-, and macro-level opportunities and constraints that support deliberative and participatory processes (DPPs) for sustainability transformations to tackle climate change.
2. The systematic comparison of DPPs setup, processes, and outcomes to identify best practices that contribute to citizens’ democratic participation, engagement and empowerment in sustainability transformations in the arena of food systems.
3. The identification of the DPPs and practices that maximize the inclusiveness and empowerment of all social groups, representative of the population, for the transformation towards sustainable food systems.
4. The identification of widely shared solutions for the transformation towards sustainable food systems.