Growing a food aware generation
Younger generations are needed in the efforts towards healthy and sustainable food systems. In the sub-project “See, Sow and Taste” children and young people can learn more about these important issues through hands-on exercises. The project is a pedagogic and cultural pilot project led by NordGen in collaboration with other Nordic institutions and local actors in Lithuania.
About 1 000 children participated in the project during 2023. In 2024, the next project phase involves schools in the Faroe Islands and Lithuania. The lessons learnt from this pilot project will hopefully form a base for a larger multinational project teaching children and youth about food, cultivation, biodiversity, climate change, self-sufficiency and the importance of healthy food.
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Policy recommendations
The different activities within the project have increasingly shown that holistic approaches and complementary interventions are needed to tackle the challenges within our food systems. There are no single solutions. What is clear is that a lot more policies need to be adopted to increase the speed of the transition towards healthy and sustainable food systems.
The sub-projects have explored policy tools such as legislation, subsidies and taxes, labelling, education, procurement policies and common strategies across the Nordic region. It has also become evident that stronger Nordic cooperation can help the industry adapt to new regulations that could be more uniform across the countries, and the public acceptance of different interventions could be increased if they were similar in nature and approach in all countries.