CREEP – From creeping crisis to deliberate transformation: Building a resilient and sustainable food system in Nordic regions

Researchers from Finland, Sweden, and Norway will study gradual negative developments that eventually might reach a tipping point.

Food systems are complex, and as many systems, tend to “solidify” over time and become path-dependent through the concentration of power and resources, entrenched patterns of action among a relatively small number of actors, and limited new impulses. This contributes to a gradual reduction in system resilience.

CREEP seeks to identify development trends that may trigger a crisis and to propose system changes that can increase resilience. Examples of negative trends include climate change impacts, increasing specialization and monoculture in production systems, and fossil energy dependence.