Key stakeholders' actors and end-users in emerging risk identification

Deliverable 5.1 is focused on understanding who our key stakeholders are, both in general and, at  a greater level of granularity, within the three HOLiFOOD supply chains under consideration in the research programme.

To this end Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been used to identify key players in the food systems being considered. The resulting visualisation will show how they relate to and influence each other. Whilst this activity is the focus of deliverable 5.1, we will continue to update the stakeholder database through the course of HOLiFOOD project as the Social Network mapping will provide a resource for activities in T1.1, T3.1, WP 4, and in relation to the dissemination activities in WP 7.

The work reported here used semi-structured interviews, MIRO board supply/value chain mapping  workshops, online surveys, and preliminary SNA. This included expert information from project partners on risk assessors, managers, communicators and stakeholders and representatives of consumers, from industry, and civil society. This report provides a “snapshot” of relevant  stakeholders and institutions at the time of submission. The authors recognize that this may change as the project mapping of actors, dynamics, relationships, and interactions in the food system will continue. Nevertheless, the research methodology develop in WP5 have been  described in details in this report, to support the opening workshops that are complete and the surveys, SNA and visualisation that will follow.

Further work in WP5 will include further semi-structured interviews, MIRO board supply/value chain mapping workshops, online surveys, and SNA using visualisation tools such as Gephi. This phase will directly contact risk assessors, managers, communicators and stakeholders and representatives of consumers, from industry, and civil society; and ensure systematic representation from relevant SMEs sectors are included.