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Coordinated logistics such as transport cooperation reduces costs for small farmers in short food chains.
Approaches and practices to support biodiversity such as agroecolgy, long-term access to land, etc.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) of the United Nations defines peri-urban agriculture as ‘agriculture practices within and around cities which compete for resources (land, water, energy, labour) that could also serve other purposes to satisfy the requirements of the urban population.
For example, actors along the alternative grain supply chain (farmers, millers, bakers & pasta-makers) cooperate for knowledge exchange.
Resource and infrastructure pooling such as a collective abattoir reduces costs for small farmers in short food chains.
The environmental, social and economic impacts of short food supply chains (SFSC) can be assessed both quantitatively, collecting or estimating numeric data, and qualitatively, collecting non-numerical data on opinions, motivations and perceptions underlying the behaviour of the involved producers.
Reducing food loss and waste is a win for sustainability and gives more value for money.
Setting fair prices for farmers along short value chains through participatory governance.
Joint marketing through farmers' hub/shop, network of farmers' markets, cooperatives etc. can lead to sales increase.
Mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative at-will relationship aimed at catalysing personal and professional development of all participants.
Having a Charter of Reference for a CSA/AMAP/Solawi ensures good governance. Resources to diagnose weaknesses and develop charters are available.
Cooperate for democratic governance and to mutualise resources and marketing.
Multi-farm CSAs or Community Supported Agriculture schemes can cooperate for governance, can mutualise resources, infrastructure, production, logistics, and knowledge exchange.
Cooperate for governance, mutualise logstics and marketing.
Having a conversation with everyone around the table can lead to democratic, participatory, bottom-up governance.
Cooking workshops for consumers such as those organised by Paniers Marseillais in France.
Enables schools to have more opportunity to source from local farmers. Food can be cooked freshly with the introduction of traditional and seasonal produce as onsite chefs can have a say over the menu and how it is prepared.
Such as double solidarity baskets, contribution & bidding rounds. This practice, particularly relevant in community supported agriculture, offers farmers a fair price and low-income consumers access to healthy food from small farmers. These systems are built on food justice rather than on food charity.
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) are typically 'locally focused quality assurance systems'. Contrary to more traditional third-party certification systems, the direct participation of farmers, consumers and other stakeholders in the verification process is not only encouraged in PGS, but may be required. For the GASAP network, PGS is an awareness and information tool, rather than a formalised peer-to-peer quality assurance system. It allows the creation of spaces to meet and conduct in-depth dialogue between producers and eaters and between fellow producers, for a collective assessment of real-life issues faced on the farms by GASAP producers.
More in depth information can be found on another project
https://schoolfood4change.euDividing contracts into smaller lots enables smaller producers to tender with lower volumes.
Working with the socially marginalised, such as former prisoners, refugees and those with mental health conditions.
EU policymakers should cooperate closely with local and regional governments to institutionalise sustainable public food procurement as part of a multi-level governance framework. Vertical cooperation among different governance levels is needed in order to address national, European, and global challenges in local dimensions. & add ref to food policy council.
https://hub.urgenci.net/beacons/ernahrungsrat-wien/e.g. At least 10% of food originates from small-scale farmers, defined by turnover, agricultural area and number of employees.
Open days for consumers such as Elkana's Bread Festival in Georgia.
Combining good and services into one contract (e.g. apples and on-farm food education) enables a procurer to positively discriminate towards a local farmer.
Cooperate for digital sovereignty and to reduce costs for farmers and consumers.
Using and linking open-source and non-profit software platforms to combat data interoperability and develop a public open standard.
Sustainable, healthy, free school meals sourced from small farmers bring equity to all children. Good public policy can support the introduction of free meals at local or national level offsetting potential health expenditure later due to poor diets.
Offers an opportunity for small farmers to explore supplying their municipality.
Provides public procurers and interested parties with easily accessible legal advice on how to link the public plate with small-scale farmers and companies (SMEs) within a short food supply perspective.
Gender and feminist perspectives, demands and analysis are more than a transversal issue. They enable a systemic vision for change that is currently needed to ensure human rights based, just, healthy and ecologically sustainable food systems at all levels.
Cooperate to ensure that farmers have access to land at an affordable price and can produce fresh, healthy food near cities.
Digital procurement platforms that open markets more often and with smaller lots enable smaller farmers to participate at any time.
Minimum criteria for procuring from small farmers such as a target of 10% of foods originating from small-scale farmers (small-scale defined by turnover, agricultural area and number of employees) and/or from organic/agroecological production systems.
Political vision can lead to food strategies such as Ghent's which gives leadership and a driving force for procurement officers to take a municipality towards a sustainable food goal step by step.
Inspired by universal healthcare systems such as those in France and Belgium, civil society groups have proposed establishing a new branch of social security, under which each citizen would receive a monthly allowance enabling them to buy food meeting certain environmental and ethical criteria.
FPCs bring together different actors based on a democratic, participatory, bottom-up governance approach to create food policies that correspond to local needs. FPCs may take many forms, but are typically either commissioned by state or local government, or predominately a grassroots effort.
The right to food is recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of the right to an adequate standard of living, and is enshrined in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It is also protected by regional treaties and national constitutions.
