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
The Emmet Energy Foundation is developing a device that transfers the surplus of green energy into methane gas and also get it stored for a limited time. When there’s a shortage on energy, the methane gas can be transfered into energy again. The process is happening in a closed circuit. Goeie Grutten is supporting the financing of the pilot study. www.emmetenergy.com
Yearly 150 mln tonnes of tomatoes are being grown worldwide of which 40% will never reach the consumer, due to food loss. Keep Food Simple has initiated a project to enhance the productionmethods and to diminish the nummer of foodloss in the tomatosector. At the same time the try to improve the nutritionous factor of the product made from tomato. www.keepfoodsimple.nl
The purpose of project Eplucheur is to extract value from the “waste” of the mango. The peels contain a lot of fibre and the kernels are a source of valuable oil. A research with Wageningen University has started with the aim to valorise this new value chain. yespers.com/eplucheur