We promote universal access to healthy, accessible and sustainable food

At the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation we want to reinforce our commitment to promoting healthy and accessible food for people, fair for producers and sustainable for the territories. Addressing this challenge implies doing so in a systemic way: considering the entire process that goes from food production to distribution and consumption.

To this end, within the line of work that we have been developing to date through the programs of “Transition to agroecological production practices” and “Resilient territories and local value chains”, which have an impact on the production, transformation and sustainable distribution of food, we announce our new program “Accessible, sustainable and healthy consumption”. Through this programme, we began to work on the mobilisation of citizens and organisations and institutions linked to consumption, with the aim of influencing the levers of transformation that allow us to guarantee the right to food.

Moving forward on this path contributes to involving citizens in the transformation of the food system, also committing to working on the social sustainability of food systems, as well as on the dimension of human health. All this motivates the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation to promote this program, offering support to initiatives and projects that with their actions contribute to access to sustainable food.

First beneficiary projects of the Universal Access to Healthy and Sustainable Food Program

Recently, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees has validated the funding of the first projects that will be promoted from this new programme:

Food Rescue Laboratory (LaReAl)
This project, led by Narrativas Invisibles, consists of the creation of a social laboratory to design an intervention model that articulates the food waste generated in the primary sector and its distribution towards consumption in the agri-food system of Malaga. It aims to develop inspiring, scalable solutions, with a systemic approach to improve access to sustainable food for people, especially those in vulnerable situations.

This initiative incorporates art into its work methodology, which raises a reflection on food waste and the canons of beauty imposed by the industry.

A Fuego Lento: Participatory Diagnosis of Community Kitchens in the Key of Food Justice
This project by the Mensa Cívica association seeks to explore the transformative potential of community kitchens as levers of change in the construction of territorialized food systems, thus reinforcing social cohesion and sustainability at the local level. The main objective of A fuego lento is to develop a rigorous and participatory diagnosis to understand the current reality of community kitchens; identify their challenges, potentialities and shared values; and detect keys to multiply their impact at other scales.

Flue. Caring community
This project, led by Asociación Educatierra, aims to strengthen informal networks of collaboration between inhabitants, associations, cooperatives and various actors in the municipality of Carcaboso (Cáceres), promoting participatory practices and shared leadership aimed at welcoming migrants in the agroecological sector.

Promotion and consolidation of inclusive agroecological consumption in the south of Madrid
The Biolíbere Cooperative Supermarket leads this pilot project of Food Social Security that develops the right to food through the promotion of a model of governance and local participation that promotes the involvement of the different agents of society in the transformation of the food chain, enabling producers to live with dignity from their activity and for consumers to access healthy and quality food without their power is a barrier to access.

New narratives from youth engaged in the transformation of the food system
Enraíza Derechos leads this project that seeks to expand the involvement of young people in the transformation of the food system, in a context of climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, precariousness of the agricultural sector and disconnection between the countryside and the city. Faced with narratives that oppose sustainability and profitability, this project works to promote a youthful vision and proposals towards the transition.

Study for the transit of the Commissaries and Food Distribution Centers of Caritas Spain to solidarity open stores
This project is led by Caritas Spain, and its objective is to consolidate a model of access to healthy and nutritious food, based on the dignity, sustainability and social inclusion of the most vulnerable population, reinforcing their autonomy and well-being and facilitating their incorporation into work and community life.

Building networks around healthy and sustainable
consumptionProject led by CECU, with the aim of promoting the right to healthy and sustainable food for the entire population, through alliances with civil society and advocacy actions with key agents in the food chain, fostering new narratives on the food transition and promoting the active involvement of consumers in the transformation of the food model.

At the Foundation we reaffirm our commitment to support projects that provide solutions to the challenges posed by the goal of having greater access to healthy, sustainable and quality food. We also express our willingness to support actions that have an impact on the strengthening of the social, economic and productive fabric committed to the transformation of the food system towards its territorialization.