GCSO_Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions

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Description

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

Research outputs

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Researchers

  1. Jörn Obermann

Publications

  1. Introduction
  2. Wer wird subventioniert?
  3. The Incarnation of the Word and the "Concarnation" of the Spirit as Modes of Divine Activity
  4. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Forming Zone in Dieless Wire Drawing Process of Thin Biometallic Wires
  5. Personal initiative at work
  6. Variation in gaze following across the life span
  7. The social dynamics of knowledge hiding
  8. Transformational ethics to bridge the void between facts and truths
  9. Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies?
  10. Shifting Competency Requirements for IT Professionals in the Digital Transformation: A Competency Transformation Process Model
  11. Diverse values and a common utopia
  12. Jeder Tag wie dieser
  13. Headway Control and Comfort in Vehicle Automation
  14. Effects of different video- or text-based reflection stimuli on pre-service teachers’ emotions, immersion, cognitive load and knowledge-based reasoning
  15. Predicting Travel Patterns of Senior Citizens
  16. Lagrangian analysis of long-term dynamics of turbulent superstructures
  17. An Advanced Double Column-Switching Technique (LC-LC) for Liquid Chromatography/Electrospray Ionisation Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Fully Automated Analysis of Caspofungin
  18. Communicating effectively about CSR on Twitter
  19. Von "cool" zu Klärung
  20. National ecosystem restoration pledges are mismatched with social-ecological enabling conditions
  21. Morphometric differentiation in a specialised snail predatior
  22. Cultivating dispersed collectivity
  23. Analysis of mechanical properties and microstructure of single and double-pass friction stir welded T-joints for aluminium stiffened Panels
  24. Demographic change in work organisations
  25. Soziale Netzwerke im Internet
  26. TACKLING THE GLOBAL WASTE PROBLEM AS A MULTI-LEVEL PROCESS
  27. Understanding Resulting Interdependencies Within Production Planning And Control In Hybrid Manufacturing/Remanufacturing Systems