The Green Deal Food Forests partnership has completed a successful start-up phase, in which food forestry has shown itself to be a valid, innovative and inspiring form of integrated land use and food production. In the future, the momentum gained will be used to expand and deepen the cooperation for a national scale-up, and to help develop the necessary infrastructure.
Transparency International EN
TI-NL conducts follow-up research into the Dutch lobbying landscape and advocacy for a more transparent lobby. In doing so, it wants to strengthen confidence in public decision-making in the Netherlands. In 2015, TI-NL already did research and the report “Lifting the Lid on Lobbying” was published, in which the Netherlands scored low.
Street farmer
With the Bean Parade project, stichting Straatboer changes grey business parks into green urbanised areas. Employees of the participating companies, local residents and people with a distance from the labour market are actively involved from sowing to consumption. In this way, eating more vegetables is stimulated, but also biodiversity and climate adaptation.
Transition Coalition Food
A healthy life on a healthy planet is the mission of Transition Coalition Food. This network organization works broadly on a sustainable food system, including the theme: less animal, more plant-based. In the coming years, stichting Goede Grutten will support TCV’s lobbying activities on this theme, so that more effective influence can be exerted on politics to accelerate the protein transition.
Fawaka Ondernemersschool
Within the FitBizkids program of social enterprise Fawaka Ondernemersschool, children take on the challenge of starting their own sustainable catering business and making the most tasteful responsible dishes. This way they learn what healthy eating and exercise is. Stichting Goede Grutten helps to develop the existing program (for BSO’s) into a version for schools, so that children from all walks of life are reached.
Natuur & Milieu
CO2-free flexible energy techniques (techniques that can provide energy when needed without co2 being emitted during production) are desperately needed to meet the climate targets. Natuur & Milieu has previously explored this as a follow-up now with our support to organize workshops with the aim that policymakers, politicians and companies become convinced of the importance of these techniques and their application is promoted.
Eco-Runner
The Eco-Runner Team Delft designs, builds and races the world’s most fuel-efficient hydrogen-powered (city) car every year. With the Eco-Runner, the team participates in the Shell Eco-Marathon within the urban concept class and strives to win it. With this, the team promotes hydrogen as a fuel in mobility with the aim of making a sustainable future more tangible for a large audience.
Privacy Guide
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.
Nationale Week Zonder Vlees
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
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