Author: Nathalie Markiefka

MedCaravan – Glossario

Medcaravan – La Carovana del Mediterraneo: Apprendimento e condivisione dell’agroecologia definisce in ordine alfabetico le parole chiave utilizzate nella Best Guide to Collect Agroecological Knowledge (IO1) e nel programma educativo Learning in MedAgroecology (IO3). Ad ogni parola chiave sono allegati i riferimenti che ne supportano la definizione.Il glossario inizia con la definizione di agroecologia costruita dal team di Medcaravan.

The Mediterranean Caravan: Learning in MedAgroecology

The booklet Learning in MedAgroecology is intended as a support tool for the Ag-roCur4All curriculum. The contents are summaries of an introduction that can be expanded upon later. In each chapter, you will find the MedCaravan Toolbox: the links to all the materials the partners produced and support on contents. These contents are the local knowledge collected, spread, and valorised in all the partners’ activities; they enrich and are unique to this project and the research of the agroecological movement in the Mediterranean area.

Sustainability vision and strategy of the City of Ghent

The City of Ghent in Belgium chooses to use the term “short supply chain” instead of “local” when talking about its own purchases. The short supply chain is about cutting out unnecessary intermediate links that do not add value. As such, focus is shifted from a subjective definition of which suppliers are “local enough” to buy goods or services from, to a more objectively justifiable approach, where focus is on se-curing the optimum value for money, an approach that is much more in line with European procurement rules and principles. This focus allows them to reach suppliers who produce closer to home without dis-torting competition and they strive to pay a fair price to the farmer/producer.