With #BEANMEAL, Green Protein Alliance wants to activate people in supermarkets and restaurants to structurally choose more legumes over meat and dairy.
#BEANMEAL activates food makers and food providers to sell more legumes year-round and get all Dutch people eating more legumes again.
Food Pharmacy supports patients in vulnerable neighborhoods in obtaining local, healthy and regenerative food, linking direct improvements in health outcomes to sustainable agricultural practices. By partnering with farmers who restore soil health and regenerate the region, we aim to create new market opportunities that reward farmers for the nutritious food they produce.
A socio-artistic examination of the transition in arable farming presented in professional culinary musical theater. The performance will go on a nationwide tour of three beautiful agricultural locations in three provinces: Friesland, Flevoland and South Holland.
With the Uniting for Impact project, a coalition of SME leaders, NGOs and experts is delivering prototypes for the new economy in which profit is only considered profit if people, society and the planet also win.
Data plays an increasingly important role in scaling up and professionalizing nature-inclusive agriculture.
The organizations Wij.land, Herenboeren, Aardpeer, Land van Ons and Lenteland are joining forces to identify the data and information needs of these initiatives and design a unified approach and IT solution based on this.
The documentary Outsiders is about alliance between star chef Emile van der Staak and food pioneer Wouter van Eck. For a year, we follow the gentlemen on their mission: to rid us of our meat addiction and show that there is a way to produce food that cooperates with nature. Emile’s cooking style was developed based on the produce from the food forest. The Botanical Kitchen is not yet another cooking fashion but inspires us to think about food in a new way.
If there’s one thing we can do directly to fight the climate crisis, it’s eat more plant-based food, and less meat, fish and dairy. The Studio Plantaardig podcast explores how we can make the switch from an animal-based to plant-based diet. What adjustments are needed? And what surprises does tomorrow’s menu have in store for us?
Public transport, social housing, tap water… All basic facilities. And now there is also MensaMensa. The basic provision for affordable, healthy and sustainable food, through a neighborhood restaurant, public cooking workshop, learning workplace, course center, meal service, caterer and children’s restaurant.
MensaMensa makes nutritious meals accessible to everyone and enhances food security and justice. People near the poverty line also learn to cook a healthy weekly menu.
IVN Natuureducatie has already greened more than 150 schoolyards and childcare sites with Food Forests and aims to have 500 sites by 2030. In a Food Grove, children learn to grow food with perennials and experience how wealth and biodiversity go hand in hand. In this way, they build a sustainable and healthy future for children and the planet. Thanks to the continued support of Stichting Goeie Grutten, IVN can reach even more schools, childcare locations and children and continue to build on this wonderful initiative.
Plant FWD is an annual informal B2B conference that brings together startups, brands, retailers, food professionals, policymakers, investors and other interested parties to work together on a ‘plant forward future’.
Various international keynote speakers provide inspiration and activation. Valuable meetings are facilitated via the networking tool ‘Conversation starter’. Innovations are shown and new products are launched at ‘The Market’. And start-ups are linked to investors, in order to facilitate access to growth capital.