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PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.1 Resilient economies and communities
Project type
Small Project
Implementation
October 2022 - September 2024
Technical details

BSR Food Coalition

The project BSR Food Coalition connects local farmers and public authorities to ensure regular access to organic food meals at schools, and thus a continuous demand for healthy food supply.
Project summary

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.

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Budgets

BSR Food Coalition
in numbers.
  • 0.50
    Million
    Total
  • 0.40
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Success indicators

BSR Food Coalition
in numbers.
30 Organisations reached with 1 Solutionsin use 10 Organisationsin the project

Overview

What we produced so far.
Estonia hopes to turn school canteens into restaurants in which students support small producers.

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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Lead partnerKlaipeda University
  • Town
    Klaipėda
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Klaipėdos apskritis
Total partner budget
100,404.00
Sustainable Gastro
  • Town
    Vilnius
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Vilniaus apskritis
Total partner budget
111,952.00
The Association “Klaipeda Region”
  • Town
    Klaipėda
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Klaipėdos apskritis
Total partner budget
49,434.00
Latgale Planning Region
  • Town
    Rezekne
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Latgale
Total partner budget
53,928.00
Kurzeme planning region
  • Town
    Saldus
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Kurzeme
Total partner budget
53,928.00
The association of municipalities of Tartu county
  • Town
    Tartu
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
65,163.00
Development Centre of Võru County
  • Town
    Võru
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
65,163.00

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Events

23
March
The International Scientific Conference “Safe, Sustainable, and Innovative Environment Towards Healthy and High-Quality Life”
Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
23. March 2023
09:00 - 13:00 (EET)
    26-27
    October
    BSR Food Coalition kick-off
    Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
    26. - 27. October 2022
    10:00 - 16:30 (EEST)