Our newsletter is the best place to keep up to date on what is going on in the project! Find this month’s feature article below. You can read the latest issue here and sign up to the newsletter here. Are you a producer working within a short food supply chain (SFSC) or an initiator of a SFSC such as a …
Newsletter 6 – Celebrating COACH at our dissemination event
Our newsletter is the best place to keep up to date on what is going on in the project! Find this month’s feature article below. You can also read the latest issue here and sign up to the newsletter here. On June 1-2, close to 100 participants gathered in Brussels at Maison du chant d’Oiseau for the COACH final dissemination …
5 COACH policy briefs look to help policy makers strengthen territorial food chains
This week the COACH project has launched five policy briefs, making recommendations to policy makers at the EU, national and local level on how to support local food chains. The policy briefs, developed by different partners of the COACH project, are based on four themes, which have been identified as key policy areas for transforming local food chains: Head to the …
Newsletter 5 – Training for small-scale producers
Our newsletter is the best place to keep up to date on what is going on in the project! Find this month’s feature article below. You can also read the latest issue here and sign up to the newsletter here. Copenhagen training event: Smart Innovation for Small-Scale Producers Accessing Markets ‘Sometimes I feel like a needle in a haystack… there’s …
Newsletter 4 – Training to support small-scale farm-to-fork (F2F) procurement
Our newsletter is the best place to keep up to date on what is going on in the project! Find this month’s feature article below. You can also read the latest issue here and sign up to the newsletter here. ICLEI host training event to support small-scale farm-to-fork (F2F) procurement From 22-23 March, ICLEI hosted a F2F procurement training at …
Newsletter 3 – Costs and benefits training
Our newsletter is the best place to keep up to date on what is going on in the project! Find this month’s feature article below. You can also read the latest issue here and sign up to the newsletter here. European Training event on Costs and Benefits Picture: COACH participants visiting a local farmers’ market as part of the European …
New spotlight video – The Good Food Loop
Mass distribution in the global food system is not only fragile and anti-resilient (evidenced by the recent COVID-19 pandemic), it is also helping to accelerate the critical consequences of climate change. In partnership with local producers in the UK, Tamar Grow Local developed a film showcasing an alternative distribution method – the Good Food Loop. The Good Food Loop relies …
New spotlight video – De la ferme au quartier
COACH is about connecting small-scale farmers with consumers and other food actors. Find out exactly what that can look like in one of our new spotlight videos on the “De la ferme au quartier” beacon initiative! De la ferme au quartier is an initiative that looks to develop territorial, circular and fair food chains in the Saint-Etienne region (Loire), by …
New spotlight video – Ellátási láncok – A tudatos fogyasztás új szintje (Supply chains – A new level of conscious consumption)
For Nyíregyháza Community Buying Group, the supply chain as a concept has only become familiar in recent years due to global problems. Yet supply chains and the supply structures that make them up are a fundamental determinant of the economic, social and environmental situation in which we find ourselves. Supply chains are not natural phenomena. People and governments organise and, …
New spotlight video – Système Participatif de Garantie (Participatory Guarantee System)
For the Le réseau des GASAP, the CSA network in Belgium, Participatory Guarantee System visits are a powerful tool to bring together consumers and the producers who feed the population. Through these visits, consumers and producers work together to establish real dialogue, find concrete solutions to specific problems, and better understand the social reality of food production. This means that …