
BSR Food Coalition
BSR Food Coalition
Problem statement Various district municipalities across the Baltics have put food and sustainability as a theme in their long term regional strategic plans. Essential involvement, collaboration and having a common goal from district, metropolitan and local municipalities are key to advancing food systems sustainability and to tackle the challenges that come with it. However, the lack of knowledge, experience and competencies in sustainable food, food security and how to work with the SDGs at the municipality level, and the bottom-up collaboration scarcity, have become impediments on the development of resilient and sustainable food regions.
Three important entry points that need to be addressed urgently and could be solved:
- Smallholder farmers are very important to food security, and increasing agricultural productivity is closely linked to reducing rural poverty and hunger. Yet, food continues to be lost and wasted, instead of reaching school meals.
- Organic food is always part of the sustainable school food and the demand for it is increasing in the Baltic States but the supply is weak and unorganised.
- Getting smallholder farmers closer to schools.
What we specifically are going to tackle?
We will tackle the lack of…
• methodological support
• working methods
• awareness of existing tools
The municipalities will be able to see and map out new challenges that are not clear now, gain knowledge and the know-how to be pro-active and resilient.
Budgets
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0.50MillionTotal
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0.40MillionErdf
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0.00MillionNorway
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Overview
This October saw the launch in Estonia of the ‘Farm-to-School’ project, which in a nutshell is about offering school kids meals made with ingredients sourced locally. The brainchild of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM), the project aims to improve kids’ health and promote small producers.
Launched simultaneously in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the project kicked off with an event explaining how to build up cooperation between schools and small producers so that school lunches are made with locally sourced ingredients. Although the project has only been running for a month, ‘Farm-to-School’ project manager and Sustainable Gastro founder and head of development Jennifer Avci says it has already proved a success in Estonia. “Take Tartu and Võru counties, where some of the school lunches being offered to kids have already gone organic,” she says. “That’s a good starting point for the vision behind the whole project, to take it to a level where the government can devise support measures for it for local governments.”
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- TownKlaipėda
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- CountryLithuania
- RegionKlaipėdos apskritis
- RepresentativeKlaipeda University
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- TownVilnius
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- CountryLithuania
- RegionVilniaus apskritis
- RepresentativeSustainable Gastro
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- TownKlaipėda
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- CountryLithuania
- RegionKlaipėdos apskritis
- RepresentativeThe Association “Klaipeda Region”
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- TownRezekne
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- CountryLatvia
- RegionLatgale
- RepresentativeLatgale Planning Region
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- TownSaldus
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- CountryLatvia
- RegionKurzeme
- RepresentativeKurzeme planning region
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- TownTartu
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- CountryEstonia
- RegionLõuna-Eesti
- RepresentativeThe association of municipalities of Tartu county
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- TownVõru
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- CountryEstonia
- RegionLõuna-Eesti
- RepresentativeDevelopment Centre of Võru County
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Contacts
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Communication managerSimona GrigaliūnienėKlaipeda University
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Project manager, Communication managerJennifer AvciSustainable Gastro
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Financial managerJūratė VarpukauskienėKlaipeda University
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Events
23 |
March |
09:00 - 13:00 (EET)