The Famtastic family:
Our partners
© Acker e. V. / Nadine Stenzel
These are the partners
we are currently funding
ProjectTogether | Farm-Food-Climate Challenge
Innovation platform for
climate-positive agriculture and nutrition
© Project Together
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