What is ATTER?
The ATTER project develops an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange program for scaling up agroecological transitions for territorial food systems. It gathers researchers and practitioners in working on cross-case studies through secondments, trainings and workshops, relying on 16 territorial case studiesanchored in five countries (France, Italy, UK, Brazil and USA) and on the complementary skills of the 18 participating organisations. The ATTER network will be managed as an action-research eco-system to boost the emergence and dissemination of knowledge.
The project is funded by the RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges) scheme, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action promoting international collaboration through sharing knowledge and ideas between research and practitioners across the world. Concretely, it is based on a program of mobilities (secondments) that have to be inter-sectoral and international.
ATTER is a Consortium of 19 partners.
Led by the EU, ATTER case studies features Madison, WI as one of the case studies. Michelle Miller collaborates with several faculty associates (Bell, Jackson, Gratton) and is co-authoring two book chapters. At UW-Madison and at the CIAS, several ATTER participants have been involved for many years in the local agrifood dynamics, through action research projects, students dissertations, as well as direct involvement in key instances and with local organizations (such as the Madison Food Policy Council, food and housing coops, Troy Gardens, FHKing, etc.). The ATTER Madison Case Study particularly focuses on the Madison area food system as well as on the Madison Food Policy Council, in view of a larger cross-case studies reflexion and comparison about Food Councils and the construction of agrifood territorial policies at large.