Webinars
Our webinars provide the opportunity to explore the latest developments in circular food systems (CFS). By bringing together experts, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from diverse fields, participants engage in interactive sessions, podcasts, case studies, and collaborative discussions. The series fosters cross-sector learning, co-creation of solutions, and global dialogue, driving innovation and systemic change in circular food systems.
The Principles of Circular Food Systems – Live Conversations (started June 2025, still running)
Join us for an engaging, podcast-style session where we dive deep into the core principles of circular food systems—not through formal presentations, but through dynamic conversations, critical questions, and multiple expert perspectives. Think of it as a live talk show on the future of circular food systems.
The transformation of current agrifood systems to more circular food systems can be done in many ways, on a variety of scales (field – farm – regional – national – cross continental) and through different measures, techniques and innovations. It can therefore be difficult to understand what makes an agricultural system circular and when we can speak of “a circular food system”.
Different researchers have described circular food systems and circularity within agriculture through main principles that can serve as a guide to evaluate agrifood systems more systematically and implement practices that align with these main principles, thus ensuring consensus on what we mean with circular food systems, and what needs to be done in order to transform current food systems into circular ones.
Therefore, the concept of circular food systems can be described through five principles, as proposed by Muscat et al. (2021), which in short can be listed as: safeguard, avoid, prioritize, recycle, entropy, which ensures circular biomass use and can be translated to implementable measures in agrifood systems.
The five principles of CFS
Indicators to measure circularity: developments & considerations (15-09-2023)
This webinar on September 15 focused on how to measure circularity in food systems, exploring whether and how it could be measured, the limitations of indicators, possible alternatives, and whether measuring circularity was necessary at all.
The program (10:00–11:00 AM CET) included a short introduction and presentation of the whitepaper ‘Circular Food Systems around the world’, followed by three project presentations on circularity in integrated systems, nutrient benchmarking, and holistic assessment frameworks:
Circularity in Integrated Systems: Resource Recovery for Feed, Fuel and (Organic) Fertilizer Self-sufficiency in Ethiopia – by Carlos Brazao Alho
Benchmarking nutrient circularity at different scales: Using a food systems perspective – by Marloes van Loon
A holistic framework for assessment of circular food systems – by Vicki Burggraaf
The session concluded with a panel discussion on the role and relevance of indicators and alternative approaches to measuring circularity.
Indicators to measure circularity
