By setting up a Privacy Guide (website), PrivacyFirst wants to give the citizen insight into the privacy impact of the use of products and/or services. PrivacyWijzer will act as a source of information for the citizen and as a catalyst for the organizations that need to adapt to current GDPR requirements.
National Week Zonder Vlees is an annual consumer campaign in March with the aim of promoting a more flexitarian diet. Through supermarket promotions, billboards and social media, the whole of the Netherlands is encouraged to eat meat for a whole week and to keep it down. In this way, they make everyone aware of the positive impact of reduced meat consumption and show how tasty and easy it is to eat vegetables. www.weekzondervlees.nl
Wortelschieten is an educational programme of the Foundation de Eetschap, in which New Dutch (uprooted) together with MBO-ers in Agri&Food (rooted) work on food issues. In the new third edition in Dordrecht, in 2021 we will work together with Drechtsstadsboer and the growing of new local crops will take centre stage. www.heteetschap.nl/wortelschieten
Snack bar Chew on it uses illusion to influence people’s eating habits. In the mobile snack bar (cart) two iconic snacks are sold, in a vegetable variant: the hamburger and the hot dog. What happens when you change the shape? Will visitors go for a large or small variant? They look different, but they’re equal. The snack bar will be placed in various places: markets, events and in neighbourhoods. www.feedyourmind.nl
The Fruit and Vegetable brigade combats food waste by saving fruit and vegetables and delivering them to food banks. It collects, sorts, packages and distributes potato, fruit and vegetable products. A first location is located in Poeldijk. Stichting Goede Grutten supports the creation of a second distribution centre in Venlo, which will be officially opened in 2021. www.groentefruitbrigade.nl
Stichting Goeie Grutten has supported the production of a documentary about Herenboeren. Herenboerderijen are cooperative small-scale, mixed farms that are co-owned by non-farmers. These farms produce demand-driven sustainable, healthy and palatable food. www.herenboeren.nl
In a multi-disciplinary project at Wageningen University experts research using water lentils (duckweed) as a green and high-quality protein source for food. The biomass of duckweed grows fast and water lentils provide ten times more protein per hectare than soybeans. www.wur.nl
Kromkommer is a foundation that has been encouraging minimizing foodwaste for a few years already. It started with producing soups from vegetables that were disapproved for human consumption because of their looks. The brand Kromkommer was used for this and characters were supporting its communication. In 2020 the foundation decided to launch
Donor Involve Fund supports social businesses to carry out the changes that bring the world closer to achieving green development goals. Investments have been made in impact- driven ideas concerning the process of polluted/salt water to clean drinking-water. www.pymwymic.com
Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) – an international youth movement who, also in the Netherlands is committed to establish a good, clean and fair food system – links its knowledge about food to communicative skills in all its activities. This is how they draw worldwide attention to food waste and to making the food system more sustainable. www.slowfoodyouthnetwork.nl