PREFALIM project launch

The objectives of this meeting were to discuss various aspects of the project with all participants, the ANR and FairCarboN's scientific coordinators, to present the scientific board and to establish the work program.

A few words about PREFALIM:

The PREFALIM project focuses on a little-studied topic in the fight against climate change: consumer food preferences. Indeed, people's food choices can hamper efforts to make agriculture and livestock farming more sustainable. What's more, policies aimed at raising food prices (such as a carbon tax) can reduce consumer welfare, affecting the poorest in particular and creating political tensions.
However, if people were to change their eating habits towards lower-carbon diets (for example, less meat and more plant-based products), these negative effects would be mitigated. This is where PREFALIM comes in: the project aims to understand how food preferences can change in response to environmental concerns, and how public policies can encourage these changes.

The project team will study the impacts of such a change on food demand and trade, on agricultural production, and on the use of land and natural resources. They will use different modeling methods and analyze data on several scales (from French households to global trends over several decades). The aim is to see how these dietary changes could contribute to the transition towards a more climate-friendly food sector, and what policies would be most effective, fair and acceptable to encourage these evolutions.

PREFALIM project:

https://www.pepr-faircarbon.fr/projets/projets-laureats-de-l-appel-a-projets-faircarbon/prefalim