Name
Grow it Yourself - Grow it Forward (Limerick City & County Council Initiative)
country
Ireland
Goal
50,000 free food growing kits will be given away, with participants being asked to use the kits to share the experience with ten people, enabling half a million people across Ireland to enjoy the wide range of benefits that come from growing food at home. As part of the Government’s Keep Well programme, this campaign is designed to help the nation eat well by inspiring and supporting people to grow some of your own food at home while connecting with friends and family to join you and get involved.
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
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
Zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Fostering a just transition: leaving no one behind (fostering i.e. inclusivity, equity, empowerment of marginalized communities or other goals regarding justice)
Scale
- Neighbourhood or Local community
- City and peri-urban
- Regional (e.g. a province, including multiple cities)
- National
Actors
- Community-based initiative (i.e. citizens, cooperative, neighbourhood group)
- Local government
Main Activity
Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- Conducting research, pilot studies and/or living labs
- Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
- Facilitating dialogue and networking
- Offering funding (i.e. subsidies, grants and/or other means of financing)
- (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
- Developing and/or producing goods
- Showcasing and/or demonstrating practices
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
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).
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.