New Living Library launched to influence sustainable food systems

The COACH project’s ‘Living Library’, showcasing good-practice examples of collaborative short food supply chains is now live. The new digital resource includes more than 30 concrete examples of how collaboration can help to scale up short agri-food chains to create win-wins for producers and consumers and drive locally led innovation.  The COACH consortium hopes that the Living Library will be …

Campfire Event: Adamah BioHof

Each of our 32 Beacons has the opportunity to hold a ‘campfire’ to get together to reflect on their progress and challenges so far. It’s also an opportunity for them to develop the narrative that will eventually feature in our Living Library. Here, Elisa Klein, describes what happened at the campfire hosted by Adamah BioHof. Who was there? Four members of …

Campfire Event: Pickmeup_Stavanger

Each of our 32 Beacons has the opportunity to hold a ‘campfire’. These campfires are an opportunity for beacons to get together to reflect on their progress and challenges so far. It’s also an opportunity for them to develop the narrative that will eventually feature in our Living Library. Here, Kristin Kverneland, describes what happened at the campfire hosted by …

Campfire Events: Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft

In 2021 Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft gathered two times at the “Hessische Staatsdomäne Frankenhausen“ – that is a teaching, testing and transfer center for organic agriculture and sustainable regional development of the University Kassel in the center of Germany. There we found an inspiring setting in a historical building which is a protected monument and were provided with local organic food. June …

Campfire Event: Vienna Food Policy Council

Each of our 32 Beacons has the opportunity to hold a ‘campfire’, where the team gets together to reflect on their progress and challenges so far. It’s also an opportunity for them to develop the narrative that will eventually feature in our Living Library. Here, Elisa Klein, describes what happened at the campfire hosted by the Vienna Food Policy Council (Vienna …

Newsletter – First Issue!

We’re delighted to share the very first issue of our quarterly project newsletter. The newsletter features an introduction to COACH, some information about our ‘Costs and Benefits’ activities and a summary of our cross-cutting ‘spotlight’ themes. Click the image to view or read here.

Campfire Event: KPZkoALICE

Each of our 32 Beacons has the opportunity to hold a ‘campfire’. These campfires are an opportunity for members of the beacon organisation or initiative to get together and reflect on their progress and challenges so far. It’s also an opportunity to develop the narrative that will eventually feature in our Living Library. In this latest post, Šárka Krčílková from …

Campfire Event: Open Food Network UK

Each of our 32 Beacons has the opportunity to hold a ‘campfire’. These campfires are an opportunity for beacons to get together to reflect on their progress and challenges so far. It’s also an opportunity for them to develop the narrative that will eventually feature in our Living Library. Here, Chris Maughan, describes what happened at the campfire hosted by …

Copenhagen’s Independent Multi-Actor Food Dialogue on Sustainable Farm-to-Fork Procurement

This event combined the Independent Dialogue of the UN Food System Summit (UNFSS 2021) with the first City-Region Multi-Actor Dialogue on ‘farm-to-fork’ public procurement of COACH. The morning session (in English only) looked at the opportunities for farm to fork procurement involving local and regional small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and farmers in compliance with applicable legal frameworks. Another focus was on …