Podcast

These podcasts explores how Europe can move towards fairer and more sustainable farming systems – and why this transition is often more complex than it seems.

Across 8 episodes, ENFASYS partners unpack the real dynamics shaping agricultural change, from farmer behaviour and systemic lock-ins to policies, markets, business models, and future scenarios. Each episode connects research insights with real-life farming challenges, highlighting where change is possible, where systems get stuck, and what can unlock progress.

All episodes are available on: Spotify, Deezer and YouTube.

Episode 1 – Why do farming transformations fail?

In this episode, Rebekka Frick (FiBL) and Louis Tessier (ILVO) unpack why agricultural transitions can stall- exploring barriers, systemic lock-ins, and when farmer-level action is enough versus when deeper system change is needed.

Episode 2 - Making the invisible visible: systems mapping in agriculture

Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo and Dr. Divina Gracia Rodriguez (NIBIO) explain how ENFASYS used participatory system mapping and causal loop diagrams to reveal feedback loops, lock-ins, and connections that are often hard to see—yet crucial for change.

Episode 3 - Leverage points for change

Elsa Dingkuhn (Montpellier Business School) and Louis Tessier (ILVO) unpack how ENFASYS co-designed Theories of Change with case study teams, how leverage points are identified, and why combining interventions can help drive real impact in farming transitions.

Episode 4 – Behavioural science meets farming

Niall Hammond (Teagasc) explains why behavioural science matters for ENFASYS, how potential interventions were identified with farmers, what the project’s survey work revealed, and how farmer and consumer behaviour link into wider modelling efforts.

Episode 5 – Scenario modelling & “What if” futures for agriculture

Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo (NIBIO), Arianna Dell’Olio (UNIBO) and Filippo Pini (UNIBO) discuss how ENFASYS translates systems maps into dynamic models—enabling “what if” scenario testing by integrating EU transition pathways and behavioural insights.

Episode 6 – Markets that work for farmers: new business models driving sustainability

Ioanna Kalyva (GAIA EPICHEIREIN) and Anna van de Moosdijk (CEJA Young Farmers) discuss how new business models, value chains, cooperation and local infrastructure can create better incentives for sustainable practices – especially from the perspective of farmers and young farmers.

Episode 7 – Case study insights

Louis Tessier (ILVO) and Maia Budimir (ABE) share how ENFASYS case studies engage stakeholders in practice – bringing actors around the same table to co-create solutions. The episode highlights lessons from Flanders (organic vegetable sector) and Serbia (regenerative farming).

Episode 8 – After ENFASYS: what comes next?

Erwin Wauters (ILVO) reflects on how ENFASYS can shape what comes next – through policy pathways, future research questions, practical next steps, and links to wider networks and initiatives supporting just and sustainable farming systems.