About us
We can change a village and society through food, because food is the foundation of every community.
Food Networks is a global initiative aiming at providing alternatives to the commodified food systems with Sustainable Regional Food Networks (SRFN). By facilitating the replication of successful SRFN models around the globe, we accelerate the bottom-up transition towards equitable and resilient food systems and contribute to achieving UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 12. Because we believe in real food as collaborative commons.
Vision
We envision interconnected Sustainable Regional Food Networks (SRNF) replacing the common food systems: “Food is a collaborative commons”.
Mission
We take care of relationships around food to enable interconnected living examples of Sustainable Regional Food Networks (SRNF) around the world.
mission & vision
our core principles & values
Tomorrow’s challenges call for a system of regional interconnected food networks beyond the industrialized and commoditized food supply chains.
The basis for this shift is an understanding of food as a “collaborative commons” which implies value-generating, collaborative and reciprocal partnerships between equal actors.
We aim at creating working-models based on the combination of academic research, vocational training, entrepreneurial activities, and public actor support and consumer engagement.
Our Sustainable Regional Food Networks (SRFN) are based on the following four principles.
Good Governance
New rules for increased collaboration
- Continuous stakeholder dialogue and participation
- Stakeholder empowerment, equality and shared responsibility
- Fairness, transparency and accountability of processes and products
- Associative economics
Ecological Sustainability
Resilient and diversified food systems
- Production methods following agro-ecological principles
- Processing to preserve food in resource efficient ways
- Efficient & ecological distribution enabling direct linkage between producers and consumers
- Responsibility in consumption
Sustainable Livelihoods
A collaborative relationship
- Contributing to community building
- Strengthening the local economy
- Respecting existing and creating new cultural dimensions in food
- Fostering innovation and facilitating transformation
Social Learning & Innovation Exchange
- Developing and maintaining instruments for social learning and innovation
- Creating innovations in production, processing, retailing
- Vocational education/skill development and entrepreneurial training
- Research of new methods and techniques
Patrick Honauer
CO-FACILITATOR
Tulsi Giri
CO-FACILITATOR
Muriel Fischer
CO-FACILITATOR
the team
partners
Food Networks is a member of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC) of the One Planet (10YFP) Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme.
Grassroot Food Network models
Stakeholders around Food Networks
Policy Makers
