The aim of WP4 is to identify the next generation of indicators to monitor performance of the food system in delivering healthy diets from a system that is sustainable and resilient. Existing indicators do not succeed in tracing performance as they mainly focus on single aspects such as yield per unit of production, rather than on providing a more holistic performance assessment. Therefore, monitoring and tracing development of the food system requires new and innovative indicators that ascertain that the whole food sector is aligned towards this overarching goal.
This WP will have a multidisciplinary approach, and integrate knowledge from ecology and environmental assessment, animal health and welfare surveillance, economics, social considerations and resilience frameworks to derive relevant and useful indicators of sustainability and resilience performance. The work in WP 4 consider different levels of the system as well as temporal aspects in developing sustainability and resilience indicators. The focus is on developing indicators for the Swedish food system as a whole, as well as for primary production, processing, retailing and consumption of domestically produced food and consumption of imported foods.