Case study

Community-supported Agriculture Group

Area characterisation:

The CSA is located on a historic farm in an area in the east of the city where household incomes are lower than average. It covers approximately the size of a football field (8,000m2) which is owned by a private foundation and run by a museum (Museene i Akershus – MiA). Key institutions such as schools, a kindergarten and a shopping centre with a regional office and a meeting place for local NGOs are its closest neighbours. Public transport and a motorway are close to the site.

Objective:

Maintaining a CSA initiative with 80 members with a special discount for low income households and social initiatives.

Start/end date:
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Potential impacts/benefits:

Promote knowledge about production and consumption of organic produce.

Actions:

  • Providing a meeting space for locals to plant and harvest together
  • Creating an example of how consumers and farmers jointly take responsibility for food production
  • Organizing visits from local schools and kindergartens

Contacts:

edicitnet-coordinator@eurtd.com

Global goals:

  • 1. No poverty

  • 2. Zero Hunger

  • 3. Good Health and well being

  • 4. Quality education

  • 5. Gender Equality

  • 8. Decent work and economic growth

  • 9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure

  • 10. Reduced inequalities

  • 11. Sustainable cities and communities

  • 12. Responsible consumption and production

  • 13. Climate action

NBS goals:

  • Enhancing sustainable urbanization
  • Improving risk management and resilience
  • Nature-based solutions for improving well-being in urban areas

NBS benefits:

  • Developing climate change adaptation; improving risk management and resilience
  • Developing climate change mitigation
  • Restoring ecosystems and their functions
  • Increased cultural richness and biodiversity
  • Enhancing sustainable urbanisation
  • Creation of green jobs relating to construction & maintenance of NBS
  • Increase accessibility to green open spaces
  • Increase amount of green open spaces for residents
  • Increase awareness of NBS solution & their effectiveness and co benefits
  • Increase communities’ sense of ownership
  • Increase social interaction
  • Increase stakeholder awareness & knowledge about NBS
  • Increase well-being
  • Increase willingness to invest in NBS
  • Provision of health benefits
  • Social inclusion
  • Social learning about location & importance of NBS