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Reaping what we sow: centering values in food systems transformations research
(2025) Care, O.; Zaehringer, Julie G.; Bernstein, Michael J.; Chapman, Mollie; Friis, Cecilie; Graham, Sonia; Haider, L. Jamila; Hernández-Morcillo, Mónica; Hoffmann, Harry; Kernecker, Maria Lee; Pitt, Hannah; Seufert, Verena; Care, O.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Albanovägen 28, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden; Zaehringer, Julie G.; Wyss Academy for Nature, Kochergasse 4, 3012, Bern, Switzerland; Bernstein, Michael J.; AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Gieffengasse 4, 1210, Vienna, Austria; Chapman, Mollie; Transdisciplinarity Lab, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 22, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland; Friis, Cecilie; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark; Graham, Sonia; Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, 2220, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; Haider, L. Jamila; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Albanovägen 28, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden; Hernández-Morcillo, Mónica; University for Sustainable Development, Alfred-Möller-Str. 1-Haus 11, 16225, Eberswalde, Germany; Hoffmann, Harry; TMG Research gGmbH, EUREF Campus 6-9, 10829, Berlin, Germany; Kernecker, Maria Lee; ZALF, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany; Pitt, Hannah; Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, CF10 3WA, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Seufert, Verena; Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture, Department Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (430C), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implications of a values-centered approach to collaboration in food system transformation research. The paper presents two cases that illustrate how researchers might approach centering values in practice. Where much research on food system transformation focuses on values of food system stakeholders, we contribute insights into the values of researchers in such transdisciplinary endeavors. Specifically, we argue that researchers working on sustainability transformations need to be better prepared to engage in such reflections and aspire to embody values aligned with the transformations they seek to research.
Understanding small‐scale private forest owners is a basis for transformative change towards integrative conservation
(2024) Tiebel, Malin; Mölder, Andreas; Bieling, Claudia; Hansen, Peter; Plieninger, Tobias
1. Balancing societal demands on forests is a major challenge in current forest management. Small-scale private forest owners are an important ownership group that is rarely addressed directly in this discussion. Our study aims to identify and differentiate between private forest owner groups. Based on this, we take a systemic approach and determine leverage points that can be used to foster transformative change towards integrative conservation-oriented forest management. 2. We conducted a survey of 1656 small-scale private forest owners in northwest Germany within a typical European multi-ownership landscape and formed three clusters based on their activities. 3. While all groups generally perceived nature conservation as important, they differed with regard to their forest management activities. Multiple-use-oriented forest owners (45%) were most active, including in terms of conservation measures. Conservation-oriented owners (25%) mainly focused on passive measures, and conventional owners (30%) showed only a little engagement with conservation-related activities. Despite the differences, common instruments promoting conservation activities were identified. They included, for example on-site consultation, information about legal regulations and financial incentives. 4. Based on four system characteristics (parameters, feedback, design and intent), we identified leverage points towards transformative change. The deep and thus effective leverage points are changing the discourse, accounting for the heterogeneity of private forest owners as well as for uncertainty related to climate change and adapting measures to local contexts. Furthermore, working towards increasing awareness, knowledge and interest as well as accounting for the desire for autonomy and control are promising pathways for change. 5. A holistic transformation of forest policy and management towards integrative conservation is urgently needed to meet the current challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and timber demand. This transformation has to go beyond the adaptation of existing policy instruments and instead focus on systematic and cross-sectoral changes in the underlying policy orientation, its design and its implementation.

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