Future of Food
Dates: A two years project that started in August, 2013 Participating countries: Hungary, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany,
Objective: This learning partnership aims to connect organizations in adult education to explore and exchange new insights of sustainable practices related to food for a healthy planet and for healthy people and share this knowledge in an inspirational way.
The project is addressing the problems of:
- New challenges and questions arising in the areas of global food production
- Recent economic crisis in relation to food
- Alienation from Nature:
- Lack of knowledge and consumer information for making healthy choices in food consumption
- Social isolation and loss of community cohesion
In order to reach the above objectives, we are exploring the topic of sustainable food-related practices in the following 4 fields:
- Growing and collecting of food
- Food preparation
- Sharing and eating of food
- Education and communication