GCSO_Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions

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Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions

The current industrial food system, including its large-scale agribusinesses, food-processing companies, and retailers, is in urgent need of a transformation towards sustainability. There are timely opportunities to adopt innovative entrepreneurial models such as land trusts, cooperatives, and benefit corporations, to create vibrant and sustainable local food economies. Sustainable local food enterprises produce healthy food while proving fulfilling quality jobs, advancing social justice, and creating net-positive impacts on the environment.

This project will build capacity in food entrepreneurs and stakeholders to create, manage, and support sustainable local food enterprises in four regions across three countries. The four regions are committed to sustainable local food economies, yet, within different geographical, socio-political, and historical contexts. Project activities in the four regions use a similar model for building implementation capacity based on evidence and facilitating real-world experiences, but vary to account for these contexts. The ultimate goal is to develop a set of enterprise plans ready to be implemented by entrepreneurs and stakeholders involved in the project.

Enterprise plans will be developed for land trusts in the Portland region (USA), urban agriculture cooperatives in Hong Kong (SAR), plant-based protein small-to-medium enterprises in the metropolitan region of Hamburg (Germany), and mill-bakery cooperatives in the metropolitan region of Phoenix (USA).

In one year of GCSO funding, this project will:

Build capacity in food entrepreneurs and stakeholders in Portland, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Phoenix

Develop enterprise plans for land trusts, cooperatives, and benefit corporations in the four regions

Write and submit two grant proposals to distribute this type of capacity building to other regions
AcronymLocal Food GCSO
StatusFinished
Period01.07.1831.12.19

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Researchers

  1. Ivana Weber

Publications

  1. Dangerous settings and risky international assignments
  2. Wege in eine bessere Zukunft der Hochschulen
  3. Mapping a sustainable future
  4. "Lob des Unscheinbaren"
  5. The informed society - Final report of SAFECOAST action 2
  6. Hochschulen4future?!
  7. Interkulturelle Differenzen im Selbstkonzept von Managern
  8. Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator
  9. Luminescence dating of late holocene dunes showing remnants of early settlement in Cuddalore and evidence of monsoon activity in south east India
  10. School Will Never End
  11. Von "cool" zu Klärung
  12. Microstructure, mechanical and corrosion properties of Mg-Gd-Zn alloys
  13. Germany
  14. Construct relation extraction from scientific papers
  15. Termination of life support measures in case of persons in permanent vegetative state.
  16. Business Entry and Window of Opportunity
  17. Germany Going "Midstream"
  18. Automated Design of 3D-Printed Silicone Parts
  19. Mitarbeitergeleitete engpassorientierte Steuerung
  20. Why Geographical Indications Can Support Sustainable Development in European Agri-Food Landscapes
  21. Vicki Baum und Gina Kaus
  22. A Glue from Snail Slime?!
  23. The Friend as Conceptual Persona in Deleuze and Guattari
  24. § 44 VwGO (Objektive Klagehäufung)
  25. Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change
  26. Educating sustainability change agents by design
  27. Processes of sustainability transformation across systems scales: leveraging systemic change in the textile sector
  28. Shallow
  29. Case Study
  30. Patient-reported outcomes in rehabilitation research
  31. Biological Degradation of Cyclophosphamide and its Occurrence in Sewage Water
  32. Stoffstromnetzbasierte Planung und Optimierung komplexer Produktionssysteme
  33. Four Charges Against the WTO