Background
Contact persons
- nina.c.overby@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 13 24
The young will bear the greatest costs of harms of the failing food system, but are marginalized in policy making and excluded from shaping the responses required. Effective responses must therefore involve young people in identifying and creating the solutions that will improve the lives of future generations.
Purpose
We will use participatory action research (PAR) and systems thinking, working with local food system stakeholders in the ‘real world laboratory’ of a Norwegian municipality to:
- define the NextGenDiet
- map the food system to identify levers that could reshape it to deliver this diet
- identify and prioritize solutions
- evaluate the feasibility of these in our ‘real-world laboratory’.
Project description
In this project we will work with young people to draw on both their own crucial insights, and lessons from previous generations, to co-create a healthy, sustainable and accessible Next Generation Nordic Diet (NextGenDiet) and identify levers and find solutions for the food system to deliver that diet.
This transdisciplinary project will bring young people together with cross-sectoral local food system stakeholders, alongside experts in food, climate, public health, systems approaches and PAR. Through our exemplar municipality we will generate knowledge and build capacity to deliver a supportive, sustainable food system to create healthy and sustainable diets throughout Norway, now and into the future.
Project group
- nina.c.overby@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 13 24
- anine.medin@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 14 28
- froydis.n.vik@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 18 55
- elisabet.r.hillesund@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 12 85
- vigdis.guttormsen@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 16 52
- jorunn.larsen@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 10 34
- stine.oyna@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 19 88
- harry.rutter@uia.no
- mary.e.barker@uia.no
- andrew.wills@uia.no
- erlend.l.valen@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 22 09
- margrethe.roed@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 18 86
Results
Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2025). Ni prosjekter får 107 millioner til forskning på miljø, klima, mat og folkehelse. [Avis]. Khrono.
Medin, Anine Christine; Worren, Tone; Cornels Nordli, Ramani Konstanse; Borøchstein, Kira; Vevik-Myraker, Martine & Ephrem, Mekdelawit (2025). Mat, makt og unge stemmer - kan unge medforskere gjøre lokale matsystemer mer bærekraftige?