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We are currently funding
ProjectTogether: Farm-Food-Climate Challenge
Climate-positive agriculture and nutrition
We support the Farm-Food-Climate Challenge from ProjectTogether because we need to fundamentally rethink food production from farm to table. The Farm-Food-Climate Challenge is a programme that connects over 100 innovation teams, tasking them with developing solutions for a climate-positive food industry along the entire value chain. We provide programme participants with a six-month grant so they can concentrate fully on their project and develop new approaches to transforming food production.
Acker | Nutritional expertise at the GemüseAckerdemie
Hard work pays off
© Acker e.V. / Nadine Stenzel, 2021
We want to spread the word about healthy, sustainable nutrition. Which is why we support the GemüseAckerdemie, an educational programme that helps primary school children, their families and their teachers learn to appreciate and respect food and nature. The core of the programme is a school garden that has been cultivated by participants to serve as an outdoor learning location – supported by comprehensive teaching materials and guided by Acker’s mentors. For a generation understands you are what you eat.
Du bist hier der Chef! The consumer brand
Power to the consumer!
© Du bist hier der Chef! Die Verbrauchermarke e.V.
Imagine if we as consumers could decide what it means to be a “fair” product that we want to buy in our nearby supermarket: fair for animals and the environment, fair for producers, and fair for us.
Du bist hier der Chef! is trying out this experiment and developing products whose characteristics were determined in advance through democratic voting procedures. And the products have been a success: “Consumer Milk” has already been sold more than 2.2 billion times in supermarkets, and future products are already in the pipeline.
We are helping Du bist hier der Chef! to create a sustainable business model and establish a broad consumer community that is recapturing the market and demanding products that they actually want: transparent, fair and democratic!
Die Gemeinschaft | Transforming food culture
Working together for a better
food system
© Nils Böddingmeier .
From grain to flour to dough to loaf – and, finally, to our plates. It takes a lot of steps and quality manual work to create a delicious slice of crusty bread. Meat, cheese and many other foods also involve numerous production steps. Die Gemeinschaft brings together people who want to make the food industry future-proof: this includes not only restaurateurs, farmers, bakers, food processors, and retailers, but also people who are working to improve our society as well as apprentices in these industries.
The association advocates for a better food system. That means an environment in which food is celebrated and produced in a regenerative way; in which people shop for fair products with a focus on conserving resources; and in which manual labour is shown respect and appreciation. Furthermore, Die Gemeinschaft wants to promote conscientious cooperation from farm to table. Their areas of focus are primarily networking, communication and education.
“EssKulturWandel” is an example of these efforts in practice: an interdisciplinary training course for young people from all areas of the food sector. We support Die Gemeinschaft not only in terms of their project “EssKulturWandel”, but our funding also helps to free up their time so that the team can focus on strategic issues
Wir für Demokratie | Partnering with members of parliament to transform the way we eat
Partnering politics and civil society
© Brand New Bundestag .
Democratic engagement for you. For me. For us all. This is the slogan of Wir für Demokratie e.V., and it sums up their mission perfectly. The association works to ensure that each and every one of us can easily participate in democracy. Together with the organisation Brand New Bundestag as a network partner, Wir für Demokratie e.V. operates a platform where politicians can communicate across parties and sectors. The goal? To strengthen our democracy and make our society more sustainable.
One current project that we are excited about: Wir für Demokratie e.V. and Brand New Bundestag are identifying society’s core demands in terms of transforming the way we eat – on the basis of the actors from the Farm-Food-Climate Challenge. Once these demands have been identified, they will be discussed in a joint workshop together with members of the German Parliament so that they can advocate for these demands. Farm-Food-Climate is also part of the Famtastic portfolio, and we are extremely pleased that the two organisations are working together. And, of course, we’re excited for the results, the exchange and the inspiring ideas that will be developed as a result.
Climate Farmers Academy
Strengthening regenerative agriculture in Europe
© Climate Farmers
Climate Farmers Academy puts farmers at the center of our agricultural and food system. To this end, they strengthen the Europe-wide community of regenerative farmers, facilitate knowledge sharing and building, and motivate each other. Climate Farmers Academy is also working on concrete infrastructure for the transition to more regenerative agriculture, e.g. by providing financing instruments for the transition, building a solid community of supporters, and taking measures to make regenerative agriculture more measurable and projectable.
Through years of building relationships with representatives from industry, finance, philanthropy, academia, and other civil society actors, Climate Farmers Academy has built trust and identified the people committed to sustainable agriculture in Europe. As part of this support, some of them have formed a competent and diverse alliance with a shared vision.
In addition to this cross-sector alliance, a further focus in the current collaboration is the so-called “Co-Funding Alliance”. This alliance includes several foundations and other donors who are willing to support systemic approaches from organizations in the field. The Famtastisch Foundation is also a member.
ReSoLa | Pioneering work is leading the way!
Promoting sustainable agroforestry
© Marco Bartsch
How can we promote knowledge about agroforestry in practice? ReSoLa e.V., whose name is derived from the German words for regenerative and social agriculture, is leading the way! The association brings together people who are advocating for regenerative agricultural practices. The team advises decision-makers, provides public outreach on the topic of agroforestry, and implements various educational formats, for example with university students and farmers.
ReSoLa e.V. also has a true ace up its sleeve – its own 12-hectare agroforestry system in Werratal, which the team uses to demonstrate how regenerative methods and social aspects can be integrated into agriculture. We think this combination of real-world research and direct knowledge transfer is unbeatable. With our support, we want to help strengthen the organisation and provide them with resources so that the team can actively increase both awareness of agroforestry and the actual number of agroforestry systems.
EARA | A vision for regenerative agriculture
Regenerative farmers speak
with one voice
© Filmkrug, Nina Reichmann
EARA stands for the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture and is the first self-organised movement of regenerative farmers in Europe. EARA brings together conventional and organic farmers. The organisation’s members have a wide variety of different backgrounds, come from both large and small farms, and work in different areas ranging from vegetable crops to livestock.
Together, EARA members have developed a vision of sustainable, regenerative agriculture – and have translated this vision into concrete political demands. Together with EARA’s operative team, these demands are then represented at various (global) conferences and in various networks. We support the founding of EARA and the gradual establishment of organisational structures with the long-term goal of a future-oriented agricultural and nutritional system policy for Europe.
Together Foundation I Breaking new ground
Rethinking philanthropy together
© Together Foundation
The Together Foundation is a growing community of courageous individuals who are willing to take risks to advocate for systemic societal change. Members are foundations, wealthy individuals and NGOs. They inspire, reflect and motivate one another with their philanthropic initiatives. The goal of the Together Foundation is to bring together people who are actively rethinking philanthropy.
The organisation wants to blaze new trails, figure out how they can have a positive impact on the world – and find out how we can implement the societal transformations necessary for a liveable world within the planetary boundaries. Their approach involves creating spaces for interaction, reflection, learning and action. How does it work? Through a combination of personal interactions, the joy of doing good, a great deal of experience in the community and lots of opportunities arising out of happy coincidences.
At Famtastic, we have put a lot of thought into the question of how we can rethink philanthropy, and we are pleased to be a member of the Together Foundation – and to support them as a funding partner.
Regionalwert Research I
Sustainable food production and processing
Competitive advantage through sustainability
© RegionalwertResearch
What does it take to make sustainable business practices financially worthwhile for companies? This is what Regionalwert Research gGmbH wants to find out by conducting research - and what's more, the organisation wants to show that sustainable management can bring a competitive advantage.
The team is therefore developing concepts and methods for food production and processing that can be used to evaluate and monetise sustainability and public welfare services, i.e. services for nature and society.
Sustainability should become affordable for companies in the agriculture and food industry. This requires clear key figures, valuation standards and communication about operational performance and risks.
Regionalwert Research is committed to ensuring that social and environmental performance is given greater recognition in the future and understood as part of a company's success - we are pleased to be able to support Regionalwert Research and thus precisely this goal.
Tiny Farms Academy
Bringing career changers
into agriculture
© Carla Ulrich
What does it take for more people to work in agriculture - and for it to become more diverse? And how can more understanding of organic regional agriculture be created in the food system? The Tiny Farms Academy gUG addresses these questions. ‘Every person a gardener, and every gardener a changemaker’ - that is the organisation's vision.
What exactly does the Tiny Farms Academy do? Merle, Jakob and the whole team bring career changers into agriculture: people with no horticultural experience find their way into organic vegetable growing. The aim is to reconnect participants with the soil, food production and themselves. With the advanced ‘Co-Farming’ programme, graduates can also try out horticultural entrepreneurship for themselves and produce vegetables independently on a limited area for a year - with support and advice from the Tiny Farms Academy.
With its work, Tiny Farms Academy targets to bring the micro-farming approach (profitable farming on very small areas) to the wider community. The aim is to increase the proportion of bioregional vegetable production, utilise agricultural land more sustainably and give more people access to sustainable agriculture. We are proud to support the Tiny Farms Academy and its innovative learning programme.
Deutscher Verband für Landschaftspflege e.V. (DVL)
Rewarding environmental services and enabling farmers to earn an income
AI-generated illustration of the Gemeinwohlprämie team of the DVL e.V.
In the Deutscher Verband für Landschaftspflege e.V. (DVL) (German Association for Landscape Conservation) and its more than 200 members, the landscape conservation associations, representatives of agriculture and forestry, nature conservation and local authorities work hand in hand throughout Germany. They are committed to combining the use of the cultural landscape with the preservation of habitats for animals and plants, as well as climate protection. This additional task for land users should be appropriately rewarded as a public service. This can take place within the framework of a "Gemeinwohlprämie" (a public benefit bonus) - an assessment and remuneration concept that the DVL has developed and continuously refined together with practitioners, scientists, and the administration.
The Gemeinwohlprämie, or public benefit bonus, is intended to pay agricultural businesses for the land-related nature and environmental protection services they provide. A farm's public welfare services are assessed on the basis of a catalogue of measures using a points system and remunerated from funds from the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In the long term, the public goods bonus can thus rededicate the CAP's flat-rate direct payments and bring about a system change in the current funding logic. In order to demonstrate that the public goods bonus works successfully, further practical experience and support from farms is needed, as well as courage on the part of administrations. To this end, the public goods bonus is being piloted in various regions of Germany.
We are pleased that we will be able to support the DVL in this over the next few years.
Past projects
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