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- Nick has /wiki/spaces/~nicksellen/pages/77922309 that he collected himself
CANADA - Kingston - Taste before you waste
not in personal contact
CANADA - Ottawa - Foodsharing Ottawa
not in personal contact
DENMARK - Foodsharing Copenhagen
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Update 2017-01-12:New Slack chat for team communication since November 2016. Food from the big market is mainly distributed at one indoor share point that they can use for free.
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ECUADOR -
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Cuenca -
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(not in personal contact)
Blog post about Marilyn Kendall
ENGLAND - Jersey - OLIO
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foodsharing Cuenca
2nd group in Ecuador, just emerging in Spring 2018
ECUADOR - Quito - foodsharing Quito
1st group in Ecuador, started by Fausto and Chalo.
ENGLAND - London - OLIO
Blog post about Marilyn Kendall
not in personal contact
ENGLAND - Jersey - OLIO
Blog post about City Champion Elis Joudalova
not in personal contact
FRANCE - Nantes - DLC, Détournement Libre de Consommables
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not in close contact yet
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Bari - Avanzi Popolo
facebook fanpage
not yet in personal contact
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NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Rotterdam
Info provided by Simon Damstra and below-mentioned yuniteers
Started by yunity travellers (Philip Engelbutzeder, Axel Kalitzki, Selina Camile, Lara Earthling, Paul Free and maybe some others) who were invited to the/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/32440553 building, the facebook group currently has almost 600 members. A team of approximately 10 volunteers does food pick-ups and distribution events, a core team of 3 (Simon, Jan Peter, Robin) manages and activates them.
Cooperations: pick-ups at the wholesale market are ongoing on Wednesday and Saturday at 7am, smaller cooperations (like bakeries) are inactive. They negotiate with the merchants at the wholesale market to only take the better food, because of limited transportation capacity. There are two other teams that pick up food at the market.
Transportation: they can use the van of a inhabitant of Antonius, who also donates the gas
Distribution: at the Antonius building, mostly to people from the area. People in the building are not so interested as of limited cooking possibilities. They can use a big fridge to store food for the next days
Leftovers: they give the bad & leftover fruit to a woman who feeds it to animals
Difficulties:
- handing over responsibilities from the core team to volunteers - people at the market could get confused if new people show up each time
- finding trustworthy & passionate volunteers that can organize themselves and others is hard
- they are looking for something similar to a front person, who is driving the volunteers to be active
Contact: Tilmann is in contact with Simon Damstra from the core team.
NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Wageningen en omgeving
Contributed by Sana Rajkovic
Community: between 10-15 core foodsaver
Cooperations: small shops, market stands, restaurants
Fairsharer: fridge at THUISwageningen
How does it work: use of facebook for team-organisation, sensibilisation and sharing
Contact: wageningenfoodsharing@gmail.com
POLAND - Foodsharing Warsaw
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Malo - foodsharing Malo
small but growing initiative run by Isabella Dal Balon (isabella on Slack)
no online representation
ITALY - Milan - Recup
Article by Veronica Tarozzi about Recup
not in personal contact
ITALY - Padua - Cucina Brigante
Info provided by Sara Brunacci.
"Once weekly we save food from the wholesale market with a big van and redistribute it to local people. We also used to prepare lunch to which anyone is invited, but lately someone is complaining about it, and trying to stop it. Still, we are trying to find a way :wink: Also participating to free markets and other events and spreading the word."
ITALY - Pavia - Alimentando
Article by Veronica Tarozzi about Alimentando
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam - Taste before you waste
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam - Guerilla Kitchen
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Bussum - Taste before you waste
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Maastricht - Foodsharing Maastricht
Information provided by Niki Ba on facebook
Informative article on foodsaving.world
NETHERLANDS - Utrecht - Taste before you waste
facebook fanpage
facebook group volunteers
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Rotterdam
Info provided by Simon Damstra and below-mentioned yuniteers
Started by yunity travellers (Philip Engelbutzeder, Axel Kalitzki, Selina Camile, Lara Earthling, Paul Free and maybe some others) who were invited to the/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/32440553 building, the facebook group currently has almost 600 members. A team of approximately 10 volunteers does food pick-ups and distribution events, a core team of 3 (Simon, Jan Peter, Robin) manages and activates them.
Cooperations: pick-ups at the wholesale market are ongoing on Wednesday and Saturday at 7am, smaller cooperations (like bakeries) are inactive. They negotiate with the merchants at the wholesale market to only take the better food, because of limited transportation capacity. There are two other teams that pick up food at the market.
Transportation: they can use the van of a inhabitant of Antonius, who also donates the gas
Distribution: at the Antonius building, mostly to people from the area. People in the building are not so interested as of limited cooking possibilities. They can use a big fridge to store food for the next days
Leftovers: they give the bad & leftover fruit to a woman who feeds it to animals
Difficulties:
- handing over responsibilities from the core team to volunteers - people at the market could get confused if new people show up each time
- finding trustworthy & passionate volunteers that can organize themselves and others is hard
- they are looking for something similar to a front person, who is driving the volunteers to be active
Contact: Tilmann is in contact with Simon Damstra from the core team.
NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Wageningen en omgeving
Contributed by Sana Rajkovic
Community: between 10-15 core foodsaver
Cooperations: small shops, market stands, restaurants
Fairsharer: fridge at THUISwageningen
How does it work: use of facebook for team-organisation, sensibilisation and sharing
Contact: wageningenfoodsharing@gmail.com
POLAND - Foodsharing Łódź
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 2 foodsavers.
One Food-Share Point in university, not many regular cooperations and way too little volunteers. They try to condense their big facebook group for volunteers to build and actually functional group now.
POLAND - Foodsharing Warsaw
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 7 foodsavers.
Foodsharing Warszawa has around 60 members. They have cooperations with 20+ stores, which are mostly one-person pickups, managed through their Karrot group. Members are encouraged to bring picked up food to the public fridges (Jadłodzielnie). They are mostly communicating in their closed facebook group which has lots of discussions.
There are some stores where many people want to pick up. Some people do so more often because they are immediately clicking the "join pickup" button when it appears. Talking helped to alleviate to a certain degree, but sometimes the people just don't reply or when asked to meet up to clarify the situation, they say they are busy. Many in the group are of the opinion that those doing "nice" pickups should also help with hard pickups. (Noteworthy: despite this problem, most people respect the pickup settings, they don't increase max slots. So far, there might have been one person in the Warsaw group who did it.)
If people miss a pickup, it's sometimes hard to reach them. And Karrot still says that they did it.
There was a person in the group who offended many. They made a decision to remove him and told him "as you have been kicked out, you should leave our karrot group". This bluff worked, probably because the person didn't know that there were no admin roles in karrot.
Discussions in the facebook group are sometimes heated. This puts off people who want to introduce newcomers. Our discussion round liked the option to turn off comments for posts (in facebook).
Not many new people join and even less stay. They usually do advertising via their public facebook page. "For every 3 posts, 1 person joins."
There are not many people coming to meetups and not much in-person discussion. This leads to a feeling of low cohesion in the group.
At least one person has been requesting food deliveries from the group for reasons of being poor but having no time to pick up food. This is half met with resistance, half with support.
For starting cooperations with big stores, they miss people with more transport capacity. Not many have a car and there is no cargo bike culture in Warsaw (so far at least...). A cooperation with car rental companies could be a intermediate solution.
They avoid forming an association to reduce liablity and fees. This makes it harder to cooperate with big stores who usually want to a contract.
For a recent city event, a group member made a board game where players have to gather ingredients for a meal by picking up food from public fridges. The fridge on the game board closely resemble the real locations. It looks very well-done, printed on thick A0-sized paper, cardboard pieces for ingredients and cards for the meals. It was a hit with the children at the event.
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Agnieszka and Karolina started a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience around March 2016. Community: 15 core people who meet every two weeks, only 1 verified foodsaver so far (because of a lack of cooperations) and around 30 more aspiring ones (by 09/2016). After 10-20 interviews for different media in May they now get contacted by people all over Poland and other cities already started foodsharing initiatives as well. Food-Share Points: 3 fridges, soon 4 (by 09/2016). They call them 'Jadłodzielnia' (from 'jadło' - the fodder + 'dzielić' - to share + '-nia' - marks a location). Are used by the people, but sometimes empty. Stores: The most lacking part so far. No regular pick-ups, just spontaneous calls from a bakery, a chef-in-training, and a seafood store. Legal: foodsharing Warszawa doesn't want to register as an organization, because as private individuals noone is liable for possible problems due to the FSPs. Difficulties: getting more stores to cooperate. Will focus from Oct. 2016 onwards to get regular cooperations. The Polish gift law, which makes the recipient of a gift pay 10% of its value to the state. Solutions for handling the gift tax problem:
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They have no quiz. 3 trial pick-ups are needed to become a verified foodsaver, two meetings must be visited to get the password to the orga-googledrive. On that drive there are spreadsheets about FSPs, pick-ups and verified and aspiring foodsavers, meeting minutes, a general rules sheet, flyers and posters, also to approach stores and basically everything they work on. The googledrive is like the office of foodsharing Warsaw, and who has the password is part of the orgateam.
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They have no quiz. 3 trial pick-ups are needed to become a verified foodsaver, two meetings must be visited to get the password to the orga-googledrive. On that drive there are spreadsheets about FSPs, pick-ups and verified and aspiring foodsavers, meeting minutes, a general rules sheet, flyers and posters, also to approach stores and basically everything they work on. The googledrive is like the office of foodsharing Warsaw, and who has the password is part of the orgateam. Still dreaming of translating foodsharing.de. Interested to try out a basic software. Already thinking about building an app for themselves. |
POLAND - Foodsharing Wrocław
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 5 foodsavers.
Many Food-Share Points all over the city, but mostly put up by a different organization. Basically no regular cooperations with stores, but spontaneous pickups when called. Unclear state of collaboration with the other organization, but definitely motivation to proceed.
RUSSIA - Moscow, St. Petersburg
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- No meat, no fish, no seafood
- They also have a special topic for sharing clothes, pets, tools and some other stuff
- It isn't connected with shops, just individual offers
- Around 10-20 new offers per day
- Sometimes it's offers from shops, sometimes from charitable organizations -- everything in one list
not in personal contact
SCOTLAND - Foodsharing Scotland
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SCOTLAND - Foodsharing Edinburgh
tbw
SPAIN - Barcelona
info collected by Arno Döpper, met with one of the people in November 2016
related Homepage (Wordpress page - not only for Barcelona)
Community: community exists since about 4 years. They have monthly assemblies, to welcome new members. They used to be more open but limited the 'membership' at some point (I forgot why exactly). They pick up food twice a week and meet once a week to distribute the food (equally) among the contributing members (two people get one basket and share the food between each other). Before the food distribution there is an assembly. There are different sub groups in the community taking care of various tasks (communication, internal workshops, raising awareness at schools or other institutions, ...). The community is run very local (mostly Garcia as I understood) and also more or less analog. (Having one whatsapp group). They used to do their assemblies in a squat (Banc Expropriat), now in a new squat next to it (Ateneu Entrebanc)Info provided by Jess Acton via facebook in November 2017
"We're funded by the Climate Challenge Fund (Scottish Government) on the basis that we reduce carbon emissions, and that pays for equipment and expenses and my salary. We're collecting and redistributing food from 17 local businesses (around 2 tonnes a month) and we also are running around 3 Disco Soups a year. We're thinking of changing the Disco Soup format for summer to make it more like a food show.
We do a weekly free food table on a local park (Waste not Wednedays!) and run sustainable cooking classes with students. We also have a research project going on at the moment which is looking at preventing business food waste."
SPAIN - Barcelona - La Xarxa d'Aliments de Gràcia (Banc Expropriat)
Info provided by Lukas Gebhard in March 2019
Community: The Xarxa d'Aliments de Grácia exists since several years now. It is one of the initiatives of the community Banc Expropriat, a squad in Barcelona's neighbourhood Grácia. The Xarxa has weekly meetings. At each meeting, there is an agenda of topics to be discussed. During the discussion, participants come and go to pick up food at cooperating stores nearby. In the end, every participant receives an equal share of the saved food. The Xarxa is generally open to newcomers.
Food-Share Points: No food share pointsNone.
Stores: Several small stores, which are happily collaborating. (At least more than 10)About 15 stores (including bakeries, markets, and organic stores).
Legal: no No legal arrangement.
Difficulties: language: Catalan or Spanish.
Plans: trying to create a closer relationship with food stores
SPAIN - Bilbao - Foodsharing Bilbao
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Legal: A translated version of the liability waiver from foodsharing EdinbourghEdinburgh
Plans: Expansion!
SWEDEN - Gothenburg - Solikyl
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Contact: Bruno (brunomc on Slack)
There are four detailed articles about Solikyl written by Bruno on foodsaving.today:
- How foodsharing in Gothenburg began
- Main practical challenges
- Tools to connect and to organize
- Strategies for the futurechallenges
- Tools to connect and to organize
- Strategies for the future
SWEDEN - Borås - foodsharing i Borås
Contact: Lotta of foodsharing Chemnitz
SWEDEN - Östersund - foodsharing i Östersund
Contact: Little Teddy on facebook
SWEDEN - Stockholm - OLIO
Contact: Taras Kucherenko (via facebook)
not in close contact
SWEDEN - Uppsala - Livsmedela
not in close contact
TAIWAN - Taipei - Foodsharing Taiwan
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Difficulties: People are still not familiar with the idea of Foodsharing. Therefore, the first task is always to educate the group and the people of Ankara to rescue more food. People don't usually want to take cooked food or even the fresh rescued food. To change this mentality is the greatest challenge . The group is still working on this task and share the advantages of freeganism on social media. A system without any requirement of membership, where people can easily find the locations of the food share points and take/leave fresh food is needed for the next steps, due to huge amounts of rescued food from Çerçöp. Another difficulty is finding more people to take responsibilities in foodsharingadvantages of freeganism on social media. A system without any requirement of membership, where people can easily find the locations of the food share points and take/leave fresh food is needed for the next steps, due to huge amounts of rescued food from Çerçöp. Another difficulty is finding more people to take responsibilities in foodsharing.
USA - Savannah - Food Not Bombs
contact: wutogui on foodsaving worldwide forums
Food Not Bombs is a widespread international organization that has chapters in many cities of the world. They are all independent and not centrally organized, so you never know which one's are still active if you don't have personal contact. Still, here is a map.