Fair and Healthy Food
We address the connection between all actors engaged in the transition towards a fair, sustainable food and farming system: from consumers reclaiming healthy food to farmers launching local agroecological activities, businesses tackling food waste, and public authorities (including at the European level) supporting them.
Our activities on this topic look at the local level and best practices of decentralised food systems that respect the limits of our environment, but also draw a bigger picture of what needs to happen on the European level to facilitate this change, for instance via an extensive reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
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Our activities on this topic look at the local level and best practices of decentralised food systems that respect the limits of our environment, but also draw a bigger picture of what needs to happen on the European level to facilitate this change, for instance via an extensive reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
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GREENING THE ECONOMY: COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
The transnational project “Greening the Economy: Cooperative Society” wants to set a path to a participatory, inclusive and decentralised green economy.
Together with its project partners Sunrise Macedonia and Networked Serbia, the Green European Foundation will promote ideas of green economy in the Balkans through its publications “Revision of the Economy in the Balkans: Change Policy not Climate” and the Campaigner’s Manual on Green Economy, which were produced in 2017 as part of a transnational project implemented by GEF with the support of its partners in Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia.
The research done in 2017 and the previous years has shown immense potential and pointed out the fact that these national economies are currently going in a different direction: subsidising multinational companies and mega infrastructure projects, privatising natural resources. A process of political centralisation, by taking competences from the local level and exclusion of the citizens from the economic and social decisions is evident. In this political environment, the only possible solution is a creation of bottom-up, self-organised, citizens initiatives with a purpose of association of labour and services. The countries of the region have their own historical legacy of a cooperative economy in socialism, which is now in a process of renewal.
Project Activities
This year, the project will focus on workshops to disseminate the publications and findings of the research done to foster a socio-environmental economy in Europe to bring about change to the economic system by promoting a model that prioritises participation and innovation, as well as equality and justice.
Read report about the conference Greening the Economy: Cooperative Society here.
Together with its project partners Sunrise Macedonia and Networked Serbia, the Green European Foundation will promote ideas of green economy in the Balkans through its publications “Revision of the Economy in the Balkans: Change Policy not Climate” and the Campaigner’s Manual on Green Economy, which were produced in 2017 as part of a transnational project implemented by GEF with the support of its partners in Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia.
The research done in 2017 and the previous years has shown immense potential and pointed out the fact that these national economies are currently going in a different direction: subsidising multinational companies and mega infrastructure projects, privatising natural resources. A process of political centralisation, by taking competences from the local level and exclusion of the citizens from the economic and social decisions is evident. In this political environment, the only possible solution is a creation of bottom-up, self-organised, citizens initiatives with a purpose of association of labour and services. The countries of the region have their own historical legacy of a cooperative economy in socialism, which is now in a process of renewal.
Project Activities
This year, the project will focus on workshops to disseminate the publications and findings of the research done to foster a socio-environmental economy in Europe to bring about change to the economic system by promoting a model that prioritises participation and innovation, as well as equality and justice.
Read report about the conference Greening the Economy: Cooperative Society here.
GREEN ECONOMY CONGRESS
Green Economy Congress is a series of interactive, multidimensional events designed to create and further build up on the notion of necessity for transition to sustainable and fair economy. Green economy is one of the most exciting concepts that is holistic in its form - it generates development and respect regional and global ecosystem, results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.
The goal of the organizers is not only to raise awareness on green topics, but also to create a sustainable networking platform to enable green initiatives to execute faster, on international scale.
The organizing team started this project believing that economy of the future will be green. We believe in the future where the global consumption of natural resources is regulated to the point where nature’s capacity to regenerate is secured. We believe in a low-carbon sustainable economy with a focus on dialogue, knowledge exchange and wide participation. We believe in small actions making immense changes.
The goal of the organizers is not only to raise awareness on green topics, but also to create a sustainable networking platform to enable green initiatives to execute faster, on international scale.
The organizing team started this project believing that economy of the future will be green. We believe in the future where the global consumption of natural resources is regulated to the point where nature’s capacity to regenerate is secured. We believe in a low-carbon sustainable economy with a focus on dialogue, knowledge exchange and wide participation. We believe in small actions making immense changes.
Revision of the Economy in the Balkans: Change Policy not Climate
The transnational project, “Revision of the Economy in the Balkans: Change Policy not Climate” aims to raise awareness among stakeholders, politicians and the general public of the economic potential of Green Economy, to stimulate changes in consumption and production patterns, and promote participatory approach to policy making.
In its third year, this transnational project is gathering best Green Economy practices from the three participating countries - Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria for. The aim is to showcase and promote the transformation of economy towards environmental, low-carbon and energy efficient production along with increasing prosperity and equity in society. Field research will help the partner foundations to identify individual examples of successful transition to a Green Economy, which then can support the formulation of policy proposals.
As the national targets for reduction of pollutant emissions – to which the Balkan states have committed themselves – are unambitious and insufficient to meet the goal of 2° C, which was set at the last two international Climate Conferences in Paris and Marrakech, these proposals are to be widely disseminated in the Balkan countries to convince societies and politicians to aspire to a green transition.
You can read the research here: Revision of the Economy in the Balkans: Change Policy not Climate
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