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Issues

The global health crisis seriously disrupted daily life, social interactions, travel, and working and teaching arrangements all over the world. These disruptions vary according to the countries and regions, but have been universal in their impact on society.

The world of research has not been spared. Face-to-face work is beneficial to scientific projects and partnerships: networks are built and ideas emerge through seminars, working meetings, field missions and collective data analyses. Science is based on practices that entail collaboration, exchanges and the comparison of ideas within geographical areas that globalisation has expanded, typically without questioning face-to-face working habits until the emergence of COVID-19.

According to the national instructions given and the means available, every microsociety and every group adapted to a new way of working under restrictions, while taking advantage of a boom in new technologies available. The remote work systems put in place during the emergency questioned the conditions for the effectiveness of and desirable changes to research in partnership in the global South, while stimulating creativity for future activities.

At the same time, the health crisis has affected food systems, with an impact on food and nutritional security for people. It has highlighted the vulnerabilities of supply chains, although the degree of disruption varies considerably from country to country. These vulnerabilities have again been demonstrated by the tense security climate in certain countries and by the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Beyond the health crisis itself, it is all of the restrictive measures implemented that have exacerbated numerous dysfunctions, especially in food systems: the closure of shops and food outlets and changes to purchasing habits have resulted in malnutrition problems, boosted local products and short supply chains, and encouraged home deliveries.

Food supply chains have been affected by border closures and air transport restrictions. The restrictions and reduced activity in sectors heavily affected by the crisis have altered supply and demand and therefore food prices, and have reduced consumption.

Description

The different dimensions explored by the CoMPAR project are articulated around::

• The operating procedures and collaborative tools mobilised by the dPs (component 1);
• Training and skills enhancement methods (component 2);
• Capacity building and support for sustainable local food systems (component 3).

Each of these components includes several specific objectives.

Component 1 : The operations and tools of research groups: Making recommendations on partnership arrangements, designing and comparing tools that capitalise on the sustainable adaptations developed during the health crisis and that could be used in possible future crises.

• Using case analyses conducted in the form of participatory workshops at the level of a dP, identifying the specific or general changes that have occurred in the operations and facilitation of research groups in the global South.
• Through individual semi-structured interviews involving all participants in a given dP, and an online survey informed by the findings of the workshops, more accurately characterising feedback and identifying innovations, obstacles and suggestions;
• Developing, evaluating, improving and enriching digital tools adapted to responsible operating and facilitation methods.

Component 2 : Training and skills enhancement: Making recommendations on training and capacity building methods, and developing and implementing training for trainers that capitalises on the sustainable adaptations developed during the health crisis and that could be used in possible future crises.

• Using case analyses conducted in the form of participatory workshops at the level of a dP, identifying the changes that have occurred in the way training and capacity building are delivered in the global South;
• Through individual semi-structured interviews involving all participants in a given dP, identifying innovations, obstacles and suggestions arising from experiments and individual initiatives in the provision of training and capacity building;
• Building, organising, conducting and evaluating training for trainers in the global South.

Component 3: Analysis of the organisation and structure of food systems. Producing policy briefs to contribute to improving food system resilience faced with the different crises either occurring or that could occur in the future (health, food, security, energy, etc.)

• Producing pre-health crisis knowledge on the way in which public initiatives to support agroecology influenced food system resilience;
• Characterising the impact of the health crisis on territorial food systems in terms of innovation and access to food;
• Using existing knowledge in the context of foresight workshops involving local actors.

Specific cross-cutting objective: expanding the scope of the consultation

Added to the first three specific objectives, this specific cross-cutting objective aims to ensure the dissemination of the adapted and sustainable recommendations and tools that can be used to address the different crises.

• Collecting general thoughts on feedback concerning the effects of the crisis on partnership arrangements, the provision of training, and food systems;
• Conducting a comparative analysis of the changes in working and training methods that have occurred in the global North ;
• Creating a community of practice in the global South by capitalising on the sustainable tools, methods and practices for working and training;
• Structuring a communication based on the recommendations and tools produced.

Expected Results

At the level of the dP, the mobilisation of collective intelligence will provide participants with the opportunity to assess the changes induced by the crisis, and will stimulate creativity in the identification of innovative solutions. This opportunity, outside of the usual requirements, will foster free individual expression in a benevolent, constructive climate, while strengthening the cohesion of the group.

In the second phase, the comparison of data from all of the workshops will help to identify general trends as well as specific innovations. The dP groups will then be called upon again, with some of the participants in the previous workshops being invited to contribute to an inter-dP workshop aimed at pooling and enriching the previous contributions through experience sharing. This will enable the emergence of a range of complementary solutions – whether specific or generic, innovative or tried and tested – representative of a range of situations in the global South.

A third phase concerns the conduct of semi-structured interviews and an online survey based on the observations arising from the introspective and inter-dP workshops and aimed at prolonging the consultations and expanding the circle of participants.

Finally in the fourth phase, the dP groups will be associated with the formulation of the decision-making documents (recommendations and good practices) produced during the project and made available to the community. This process will help to ensure that the deliverables thus produced are acceptable and adapted in relation to their local realities. These groups will also be contacted as a matter of priority to benefit from the capacity building actions implemented as part of or further to the project.

In the longer term, the goal of this project is to make the dP even more resilient and cohesive faced with the emergence of new crises, whether health, security, economic or environmental.