Name
Foodsharing
country
Austria
Goal
[translated] Since 2012, the foodsharing movement has been saving tons of good food from the trash every day. We distribute it voluntarily and free of charge from private to private among acquaintances, the neighborhood, in homeless shelters, schools, kindergartens and via the foodsharing.de platform. Publicly accessible shelves and refrigerators, so-called "fair-dividers," are available to all. More than 455,000 people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland regularly use the Internet platform according to the motto: "Share food instead of throwing it away!" In addition, more than 115,000 people now volunteer as food savers by picking up and distributing overproduced food from bakeries, supermarkets, canteens and wholesalers. This happens continuously almost 5,000 times a day at 11,185 cooperation partners.
Main Topic
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork"; a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
All Topics
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Scale
  • International
Actors
  • Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
Main Activity
(Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges;
Activities
  • Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
  • Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
  • (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
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CONTACT

For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.