GOSA Operational Group: Improving the skills of local organic fruit and vegetable producers to facilitate the transition to sustainability of public canteens in Madrid, Valencia, and the Canary Islands
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 597.896,54 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Canarias; Comunitat Valenciana; Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://sostenibilidadalimentaria.org/
Description
Knowledge generation, tools, an action protocol, and a network of producers for the supply and promotion of local organic fruit and vegetable products in public school cafeterias.
Objectives
- Improving the skills of local organic fruit and vegetable producers to facilitate the transition to sustainability of public canteens in Madrid, Valencia, and the Canary Islands
Results
- Generating knowledge about the productive capacities of organic fruit and vegetables, the characteristics of the public catering sector, consumer eating habits, and the ecological footprint of public dining menus.
- Launch of pilot initiatives in public canteens
- Establishment of a local and supra-regional network of local organic fruit and vegetable producers for the collection and distribution of their products in public catering services.
- Communication campaign to promote the inclusion of local organic food products through public procurement
Contact information
- Name of coordinator/entity: Observatory for a Culture of the Territory-OCT
- Coordinator/entity email: oct@observatorioculturayterritorio.org
Collaborators
- Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural
- Agrario y Alimentario
- IMIDRA
- Instituto Navarro de Tecnologías e Infraestructuras Agroalimentarias
- INTIA
- Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Canarias
- COAG Canarias
- Ajuntament de València
- Servici de Pobles de València
- seccio d’Agricultura i Horta
Beneficiaries
- Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio-OCT
- Instituto Canario de Calidad Agroalimentaria ICCA
- Buscandome las Habichuelas SLU
- Universidad de La Laguna ULL
- Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional CERAI
Outsourced
- Madrid Km 0 Centro Logistico S
- Coop
- Mad
- Garua Intervencion Educativa S
- Coop
- Madrid
Related projects
