Annex 3: References and Supplemental Reading List

October 8-9, 2024, Stockholm, Sweden.  Venue: 7A Odenplan 

The ‘Nordic Food Alert’ crisis simulation workshop is an opportunity to convene a group of top-level subject-matter experts from the Nordic region to converge around the topic of strengthening systemic resilience to food supply shocks caused by climate change and related issues.  Many participants will be extremely knowledgable on these topics already, and may have even been involved in researching and drafting of some of the papers referenced below. It is not expected that everyone will have the time or inclination necessarily to read all of these materials. However, we believe a general familiarity with these resources will be helpful for all of us, as a common baseline for reference and shared understanding.  For this reason we hope you can briefly review these materials, to be cognizant of the wealth of research, policy papers and relevant reference materials already publicly available on the subject of Nordic food systems and climate resilience.  This can help us, as a group, to determine where additional policy attention might be focused, or further research initiated, in order for our recommendations to have maximum utility and relevance.

Key European Documents:

The EU’s core food and agriculture policies derive from the Rome Treaty of 1954, and the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) - Article 39, in particular.  See: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/erpl-app-public/factsheets/pdf/en/FTU_3.2.1.pdf 

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission published a ‘Contingency plan for ensuring food supply and food security in times of crisis’ along with an Action Plan: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2021:689:FIN

The Commission also published details on a “European Food Security Crisis preparedness and response Mechanism (EFSCM)” composed of the EU’s 27 Member States, a small group of non-EU countries, and around 45 relevant stakeholders’ organizations, including a group of observers.

On June 19, 2024 at their annual meeting chaired by the Swedish Presidency, Nordic Ministers for Fisheries, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry agreed to the ‘Karlstad Declaration’ to address preparedness and robustness related to regional food supply and forestry. The Karlstad Declaration is based on the two Haga Declarations from 2009 and 2013, the Nordic Declaration on Solidarity, 2011, the Nordic prime ministers’ joint statement on deepening co-operation in the field of security of supply and preparedness, 2021, and the declaration by the Ministers for Nordic Co-operation on Working Together in Times of Crisis, 2022.

From the Finnish Institute of International Affairs:  ‘Nordic Resilience; Strengthening Cooperation on Security of Supply and Crisis Preparedness’; Wigell, Hagglund, Fjader, Hakala, Ketola, Mikkola.

Additional Readings: 

Ingram, et al., ‘Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience’; Nature.com website: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00762-5

Website of Nordred, a rescue service cooperation arrangement between Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The purpose of Nordred is to promote collaboration within the rescue services between and among these countries.

Deconinck, et al. OECD Ch14, “Building systemic resilience in practice: examples from key systems.”   https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4d3e8ef0-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/4d3e8ef0-en

Schiavo, M., Le Mouël, C., Poux, X., Aubert, P.-M. (2023). The land use, trade, and global food security impacts of an agroecological transition in the EU. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Volume 2, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1189952/full 

Various research and reports from the EU’s Joint Research Center.

Also, INRAe - France’s premier Agriculture research center - offers many reports, including a “Resources Dossier” on sustainable and healthy food. See: https://www.inrae.fr/en/reports/towards-healthy-and-sustainable-food.