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My own name: Hauwa Bature

The Persona: A Biochemist who is so much interested in Nutrition and Health. She now wants to focus on sustainable agriculture, food waste, food production and technology that meet the nutritional need of a growing community.

Transformation:  She’s involved in projects that promote the consumption of fortified foods, foods with their nutritional quality improved commercially or conventional selective breeding.

Ambition:

Food loses its quality from production, processing, transportation and preparation. Food waste is also notable during these activities. I believe these qualities can be preserved and food waste can be minimize or eliminated completely.

She also wants to encourage farming of biofortified foods and its consumption, proper cooking and mixing of different classes of foods so that everyone eats healthy.

Her Concerns: Farmers have limited knowledge of sustainable agriculture; Industries are more interested in profit than the production of qualitative foods. Food waste is overlooked and food preparation is only aimed at filling the belly not a good combination of nutrients the body needs.

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My own name: Karol

The persona:
James is an urban creatieve office worker. He inhabited many various places, but mostly downtowns of large cities. He feels lack of connection to outdoors, nature, lacks opportunities for physical activity.
Transformation:
James started growing herbs and tomatoes on his balcony.
Ambition: to have a small greenhouse adjacent to his place.
His concerns: lack of owned/available space that would be easily accessible from his flat.

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· My own name: Jairo Guzman
· The persona: I am an ecologist, community leader in my neighbourhood, I have my farm in a rural area where I produce corn, but I am encouraging friends on my block from my house in the capital to implement vegetable gardens with high quality, and high standards of production to market them in highly renowned hamburger restaurants in the city centre.
· Transformation: encourage friends to grow high-quality organic lettuce, learn efficient processes of planting, processing and marketing, with the respective value additions in each of the processes of the food supply chain.
· Ambition: work on innovation and technology systems to achieve a more efficient traceability of the products of the orchards, reduce the rates of extreme poverty, implement the Nexus Resource (efficient use of water-soil and energy). Develop a business model where farmers are guaranteed a fair price in the market.
· His/her concern: lack of space, lack of interest of people to grow and take care of the crops.

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My own name: Petra

The persona:
A consumer living in an urban environment who starts to ditch supermarkets and opts to buy his food at one of the nearby markets of his apartment where local producers sell their products.

Transformation:
With his changed consumer behavior he starts to support local producers and their work.
Furthermore he helps to reduce the emissions that come with the transportation to the point of sale and who are often very high given the origin of the respective food sold in supermarkets that often come from afar.

Ambition:
Going for just organic products at the market and therefore supporting organic agriculture in particular.

Concerns:
This change of consumptions means a seasonal consumption as well.
So the concern is that it might be quite a challenge to prepare meals with a probable reduced or still unfamiliar offer of food, in particular vegetables and fruits, during certain times of the year, like winter.

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My own name: Patricia Schmid

Persona: Susi is a Demeter farmer who cares deeply about the health of her farm (and beyond). She grew up on the farm when it was a conventional milk farm and decided to take it over, slowly reducing the numbers of cows and increasing vegetable farming. It is now a certified demeter farm with increased support from CSA.

Transformation: With her practices, Susi has been able to transform the structure and practices of the farm. Through CSA, local people are involved in the farm, can come for working days and are closer to the challenges that farmers experience. She likes to try out new combinations and share the knowledge with surrounding farmers.

Ambition: while Susi is very modest and sees her work as something she likes to do for herself, she hopes that more people become aware of the challenges around food, and that they can connect again to food production. Her main ambition is to produce healthy food with giving back more to the environment than what was taken.

Concerns: Her work is tough - there is no clocking out at 5pm. Climate change makes the seasons more unpredictable. Many helping hands are needed, and late and night, she has to run the finances...

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I met Daniel in 2021, at the main farmermarket of Montauban, a city in the South West of France.
At that time of the year, he sas selling jerusalem artichokes and people were lining up for them. As a matter of fact, Daniel is quite a figure among the other farmers. For his look, quite old and wise, but above all for the time he takes to explain his work to all his customers.
60km from Montauban, Daniel and his family live in a remote location where they farm vegetables and leguminous plants entirely organic and adapted to the territory.
They established 20 years ago, after years of traveling and experimenting around the world.
Their main idea is to feed local people without causing any harm to the environment, whom they know depend on. They are part of the French organic label and Nature & Progrès. Altough they are not active on social media, their engagement is engaged toward sustainable transition, motivated to protect and preserve the ressources for the next generation.
Met on the farmetmarket, Daniel is definitely a stakeholder on Montauban's food system.

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My name Isnawati Hidayah

Persona: I am a mom and PhD Student who work on research field focusing on food system, food security and agricultural economics.

Transformation:
Me and my team establish a demo plot to create circular econoomy system in rural areas. We established a hydroponics site and agroecological farming site. Then we trasnform the agricultural residue and household waste into compost.

Ambition: We want this porject is sustain and can be scaled up

Her concern: To set up good project management on food system and food planning. To create market for the products.

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My name: Nayan.

Person: Raja is a school teacher by profession. He is also passionate about Gardening. He believes that if every house in the city grows a garden, then the whole city will eventually become green.

Ideas: Raja spreads the know-how about home gardening. He speaks at various platforms. He is organizes walks to gardens. He participates in Garden shows. He talks to farmers. He grows his vegetables organically in his home garden.

Concerns: Growing food organically at home provides healthy vegetables for consumption. Therefore, improving the health. Since, a considerable quantity of food is home grown, by local population, the pollution and carbon footprint is reduced. Traffic in the area improves, with less congestion.

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My own name: Luisa Maschio

The Persona : Luisa is living in the center of a 2,161 million habitants city, Paris. Where she lives there isn’t a garden. So she started putting plants and vegetables where ever was possible in the private road. Her neighbors appreciated the beauty of this oasis and they started to do the same. The pandemic gave them opportunity to meet outside and work together, enjoying the green space and the social activity. They also understood that they can use the space for growing fruits, edible plants, vegetables, to have easier access to local food. They also put a composting bin for feeding the plants. They would put beehives to preserve bio-diversity.

In the middle of their residence there’s a building which belongs to the municipality with a big empty roof. Luisa discovered that the municipality promised 20 years ago to install a garden on the roof, but never kept its promise...

Transformation: Thanks to gardening, the neighbors started knowing each other; discovered common interests and concerns about the environment; the importance of having access to zero kilometer edible plants and local food; they discovered gardening as a social activity.

Ambition: making people and public institutions understanding the importance of increase green spaces for  urban agriculture for producing alternative, healthy local food; create/restore social connections among different social groups by building local communities.

Her concern: convincing the municipality to let them building the roof garden to produce local food for the neighborhood, preserving biodiversity, reducing CO2 and reduce social isolation

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Sebatian Burgos - Food Educator Interview

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Judith Hitchman (interviewed by Gaelle Bigler)

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Judith Hitchman (interviewed by Gaelle Bigler)

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Activities : Judith has spent 6 years as the President of Urgenci. She is a member of the coordination committee of the RIPESS International. She has a wide array of activities : she is mainly active in the advocacy and policy-writing fields, at different levels and within different networks (IPC, FAO, Food Policy Platform ...)
Transformative actions :
- Top-level is at policy-level : for instance she managed to achieve that the 10 elements of agroecology would include solidarity economy.
- Take Urgenci from troubled teenager to adult in the social movement world.
Ambitions :
- to see a coherent transition of her work to a group of other people.
- to work on realising the food sovereignty / agroecology / SSE nexus as something recognised within a global policy framework.
Challenges :
- Age and health.
- the strong neo-liberal push-back, particularly the way the agro-industry manipulate the war in Ukraine to turn into highly productive, highly-pesticide using agriculture and the consequence set aside of the Farm to Fork strategy.
- Climate change, even though it is, somewhat, favourable, as it pushes the short-supply chain necessity narrative.