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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. 

The development of the agri-food and socio-economic model

Jun 20, 2023 | Biodiversity, Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, Spain

ACCTING aims to understand the impact of Green Deal policies on vulnerable groups, prevent inequalities, and produce knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual and collective levels for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal. This...

An economic and cultural socio-ecosystem connecting the countryside and the city

Jun 20, 2023 | Biodiversity, Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, Spain

Kilombo is a collaborative project between the cooperatives LaFundició, Keras Buti, Tarpuna I Voltes, the association Keras Buti and the Distributor Ecocentral.

Connecting people living in urban cities and the ones in agricultural areas

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

The urban & peri-urban crop Group PERKA is a great example of an initiative that cultivates seasonal vegetables according to the principles of organic, biodynamic and natural cultivation, with traditional methods and with means that do not affect or cause damage to the ecosystem, co-farmers and residents.  

Indigenous knowledge to nourish, heal and restore

May 16, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, USA

Deep Medicine Circle (DMC) is a worker of a colour-led non-profit organisation that aims to “heal the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, restoration, story and learning.” They emphasize the importance of healing and care for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and non-humans. DMC is formed by a collective of farmers, elders, physicians, healers, herbalists, lawyers, ecological designers, scholars, political ecologists, educators, youth, storytellers and artists. They pursue “earth-based, Indigenous ecofeminist principles of organising, with participatory governance structures and circles of decision-making.” In producing solutions to the climate crisis, they turn to indigenous knowledge to repair the broken relationships between people and nature.

Major strides to break the cycle of deep poverty in Turkey

May 16, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Food Security, Inspiring initiative, Turkey

During the pandemic, the Deep Poverty Network was established in 2019 as a solidarity network “that carries rights-based work in dozens of poor neighbourhoods that tackle urban poverty” in Istanbul.

The 1st support system focusing on gender-specific homelessness in the Czech Republic

May 11, 2023 | Czech Republic, Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative

The idea is to empower homeless women by encouraging them to demonstrate their culinary skills at street markets and festivals. This contributes to reducing the stigma associated with homelessness, proving that these vulnerable people are able and desire to work and help them to integrate into society.

The economic empowerment of women victims of violence 

May 11, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, Serbia

The Good Garden is an innovative contribution to the joint effort from the local community and organizations to combat the violence against women in Serbia. It is a social enterprise engaged in the organic production of vegetables, especially cherry tomatoes, without pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Apart from that, the initiative provides training to the participants to learn social entrepreneurship, as well as organic production, with the support of the provincial agricultural expert services.

The Road to Empowering Roma Women

May 11, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Hungary, Inspiring initiative

Banyaerdő (Forest of the Witches) is an exciting organisation in Dencsháza, Hungary, a village of 560 people in Baranya County. It is a network of environmentalist volunteers who assist Roma women of the rural village in selling their local produce. Through cooperation, Roma women take pioneer roles in strengthening their deprived societies and developing business skills. The volunteers help make this a zero-waste business activity. Besides, the aim is to build useful capacities which would make them more competitive in the labour market.

A queer-owned progressive land

May 5, 2023 | Farm to Fork, Inspiring initiative, USA

SisterLand Farms is a queer-owned, worker-run farm cooperative/school that provides food for the food banks, supports farmers, and partners with Tribal youth through their educational activities.