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From peasant agriculture to regional supply economy
Functional properties of peasant economies as key factors for the design of a regional food supply – Publication by Christian Hiss, Frieder Thomas and Andrea Heistinger (2017) From the foreword: There are a variety of different initiatives promoting a re-orientation towards non-industrial agriculture. This phenomena is not only occurring in Germany, Austria and Europe, but…
HOW REGIONAL DOES THE CITY OF FREIBURG EAT?
The question „How regional does Freiburg feed itself?” is really important for the Agronauten since a long time. All the better that this question has now been analysed in a research for the first time in Germany – with advisory activity of the Agronauten. The research “Regional consumption Freiburg”, that was undertaken from the Forschungsinstitut…
CALCULATE CORRECTLY
The project „Calculate Correctly” with the determination of the real costs of products and services of an ecological farm. The heart of the project is the creation of an exemplary accounting of three partner farms of Regionalwert AG Freiburg including a monetary assessment of externalities- those services of business actions, that are not compensated. These…
OVERVIEW ON COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE
The overview on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Europe is published! It was released from the European CSA Research Group (http://urgenci.net/the-csa-research-group/). From over 20 countries participants of the interface agriculture/ research/ social movements came together to a meeting organised by the Agronauts in the Black Forest. As a result, they laid the foundation for a…
GENE DATA BASE „GENBÄNKLE“
The Agronauts started 2015 the project Genbänkle (gene data base) in cooperation with the university of economy and environment and the Alblinsen-Förderverein (Wolde Mammel). Old varieties are culinary treasures. But how can someone find out, where old or rare varieties are cultivated or where seeds can be bought? Genbänkle want to address this issue. The…
ACCESS TO LAND
The Agronauts in cooperation with Regionalwert AG are active in the network Access to Land since the beginning. Since 2011 many meetings, projects, a petition to the European Parliament and a movie were happening. An overview of the network here Access to land network (English). Here the petition “Soil as a common good” to the…