This project is implemented jointly by a consortium of leading research scientists and institutions in Switzerland, Bolivia and Kenya under the funding by SNF and SDC through the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (R4D Programme). The main study sites are in Kenya and Bolivia. The project aims to establish food sustainability as a framework for investigating food systems and for developing policy recommendations. The framework integrates five principle pillars with respective indicators:
The project takes into account a diversity of coexisting, though often conflicting food systems, including those of small scale family farmers, indigenous communities, and medium and large-scale industrialized food producers.