The fourth call for Del Campo a la Despensa opens

Transforming our food systems towards more sustainable models is essential to ensure food that respects ecosystems and people. For this reason, from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, we have launched the fourth call From the Field to the Pantry: Entrepreneurship in transformation and distribution for the leap of scale of sustainable food.

From the countryside and the sea to the table of consumers, there is a wide range of activities and actors that make up the value chain on which we have an impact in this call. In this new edition, we combine the lessons learned from previous editions with the commitment to continue supporting innovative initiatives that demonstrate that other food models are possible to enhance the environmental, economic and social impact of food.

The main objective is to promote the construction of fair value chains, by supporting transformation and distribution initiatives that strengthen small local production and facilitate access to sustainable food for consumers. In particular, we seek to promote the leap in scale of this type of initiatives in terms of volume and organization to respond to the growing demand for local products.

The call From the Field to the Pantry: Entrepreneurship in transformation and distribution for the leap of scale of sustainable food is open until April 30, 2025 at 6 p.m. (peninsular time). It is aimed at projects of all types of food production, whether agricultural, livestock and fishing and other forms of obtaining primary products. In addition, these initiatives may be in the design, implementation or consolidation phase. From the Foundation we have allocated a total of 600,000 euros with which we will support the development of between 4 and 6 initiatives for a maximum period of two years, with the possibility of extension of up to two more years depending on the transformative potential of the project.

Different transformation initiatives such as shared workshops, slaughterhouses and cutting rooms, cleaning and packaging centres for legumes and cereals, artisanal canneries, cheese factories and dairy products, and any other type of small food industry that promotes the production of sustainable food may participate in this process.

Distribution initiatives such as collection centres, shared transport platforms, logistics spaces, cooperative supermarkets, sales platforms and any other type of local product distribution initiatives based on the principles of the social and solidarity economy and social innovation may also apply to participate in the call.

In both cases, it is a wide range of activities, each one playing an important role in the food chain, with great potential for sustainable development and the capacity to contribute to a strengthening of local production. At the same time, we believe that a work of accompaniment to the projects and the possibility of being part of an active ecosystem of initiatives, can provide them with a greater platform for growth.

Key data of the call

• Call extended until April 30, 2025 at 6 p.m. (peninsular time).
• Aimed at food processing and distribution initiatives
• Initiatives promoted by non-profit entities or the Social and Solidarity Economy that are in the design, implementation or consolidation phase
• Financial support for up to two years
• €600,000 to support between 4 and 6 projects

Virtual information meeting on April 7 at 10 a.m . [registration form].

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation launched the first edition of the Shared Bakeries call in 2019, aimed at food transformation projects. With its successor, Del Campo a la Despensa in 2021, the call was also extended to distribution and logistics projects. In this way, we maintain the commitment to support and promote the transformative nature of food that requires the application of more sustainable practices from the farm or from the sea to the table.