Farm to Fork Archives

Fighting food waste and food insecurity

Jan 16, 2025 | Belgium, Farm to Fork

Robin Food is a social initiative aiming to limit food waste while ensuring access to healthy food for vulnerable communities. The project connects farmers with surplus produce to low-income groups and social grocery stores.

Fighting food waste and hunger in Vienna

Dec 14, 2024 | Austria, Farm to Fork, Food Security

Wiener Tafel – the “Vienna Table” – is a pioneering Austrian initiative addressing food insecurity and waste while fostering social inclusion.

ACCTING Narrative: Economic struggles and access to sustainable food

Aug 14, 2024 | Farm to Fork, Greece, Narratives

The impact of climate change and the capacity to mitigate its negative impacts are unevenly distributed across and within societies; it is the poorer, marginalised and vulnerable groups who are the most acutely affected. ACCTING has collected 358 narratives via...

ACCTING Narrative: Considerations on eating patterns and sustainability

Aug 13, 2024 | Belgium, Farm to Fork, Narratives

The impact of climate change and the capacity to mitigate its negative impacts are unevenly distributed across and within societies; it is the poorer, marginalised and vulnerable groups who are the most acutely affected. ACCTING has collected 358 narratives via...

ACCTING Narrative: Self-reliance and connecting with nature

Aug 7, 2024 | Farm to Fork, Hungary, Narratives

Tünde, 62, Hungary, on self-reliance and connecting with nature.

ACCTING Narrative: Loving nature, living from the nature

Aug 1, 2024 | Farm to Fork, Hungary, Narratives

Nowadays it is very rare, especially under 30, that someone knows which one is a ‘good’ herb and which one is a ‘bad’ plant while the previous generations have known all about them.

Indigenous Women’s Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation Association

Jul 10, 2023 | Biodiversity, Brazil, Farm to Fork, Food Security, Inspiring initiative

ATIX Mulher (Brazil) is the female branch of the Indigenous organisation of Women’s Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation Association. During the pandemic in 2020, the inhabitants of the Xingu Indigenous Reservation were heavily affected in their food security. Atix Mulher has campaigned for food, hygiene products and agricultural tools for the 16 ethnic groups of the reservation. It has helped gather food donations and has set out a collective crowdfunding that has benefitted 130 villages. Currently, items such as crafts and honey, produced by the villagers, help with capital to keep the small agriculture-based businesses running.

Empowering small farmers through the cocoa initiative in Brazil

Jun 21, 2023 | Brazil, Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative

Starting in 2012, in the municipality of São Félix do Xingu, in southeastern Pará, the initiative has supported 310 family members with the “Cocoa More Sustainable” project to enhance the recovery and regeneration of around 1,000 hectares of cocoa plantations through agroforestry systems. 

Seeds of transformation: Empowering communities through green jobs and food justice

Jun 21, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, USA

The initiative focuses on creating employment opportunities in the green sector for individuals transitioning from incarceration. Since 2009, the project has established more than 550 permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, enabling people to grow their own food.

Training Roma people to move them out of their deprived situation

Jun 20, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Hungary, Inspiring initiative

The Kiút programme is a work-integrated training program in which vulnerable Roma people with a predominantly minority background are provided with training and mentoring on how to grow cucumbers on their land and generate income by selling the surplus through companies contracted by the program maintainers. In addition to practical agricultural, entrepreneurial, and accounting skills, underserved, vulnerable people learn pro-environmental values and obtain education about sustainable food production and consumption. 