2025-05-23 –, Room 6 (n.o.t.k)
This workshop is in English
Our global food system is contributing to, and affected by, major sustainability challenges. The way we produce, process, trade and consume our food is exceeding planetary boundaries, as it feeds into critical issues such as biodiversity loss, land use change, freshwater withdrawals, chemical pollution and climate change. At the same time, power inequalities in the global food system are leading to social shortfalls and injustices, such as hunger, poverty, social unrest and gender inequalities. As clearly depicted by systems thinking tools such as Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics (2017), we cannot see these two detrimental impacts of our global food system as separate symptoms. They emerge from the very same system, are connected with each other, feed into each other. As such, if we want to effectively address food system sustainability challenges we will also have to tackle systemic injustices, and vice versa. In short: no sustainability transformation without justice.
At the International Food & Agribusiness BBA study programme at HAS green academy, we try to explore, understand and transform the global food system. We do this with a community of international students, which makes the intercultural meaning of 'what is just?' a topic on it own. Our goal is to inspire our students to become gamechangers in the global food system. While our curriculum does contain courses and learning activities that put central the question 'what does justice mean in food system transformation?', this is still organized in a fragmented, ad hoc and non-aligned manner.
We want to step up. This is where our co-creation workshop comes in, contributing to our ambition to create a full-fledged 'justice in food system transformations' learning line that runs across our programme from year 1 to 4. Such a learning line allows us to discuss justice in food system transformations from the levels of the individual student (you, i.e. personal value-based leadership), the learning community (we, i.e. students, teachers and societal partners), and the global food system at large (world, i.e. rething food system paradigms like human-nature relationships).
What is needed for this, and how can we put this into practice? Let's explore and exchange, so we can co-create essential building blocks for a 'justice in system transformations' learning line that is not only relevant for the IFA programme, but for all system transformation-oriented study programmes. As such, the output will be a public good, available to all.
You are welcome to join and participate in our co-creation workshop! It is open to all with an interest in:
- sustainability transitions in food systems, from a justice and rights-based perspective;
- learning activities, methods and settings that allow students to explore questions on justice;
- justice as a theme in an intercultural classroom, and in partnerships with societal actors;
- exchanging (best) practices: how do you integrate justice in your curriculum? How is it operationalized in courses, learning activities and learning environments?
- which student knowledge, skills and attitude are trained? Towards which learning outcomes?
- which staff knowledge, skills and attitude are needed?
- co-creating building blocks for a you-we-world learning line on justice in (food systems) transformations.
