Healthy food is a basic necessity for everyone, not a luxury. And just as we have organized other basic needs—tap water, libraries, social housing, public transport—a new public provision is needed that makes healthy and sustainable food accessible, easy, and affordable for everyone. The starting point for this is Mensa Mensa as a working real-world example: a social place in the neighborhood where people can eat and cook. We clarify what is needed to make places like Mensa Mensa a structural part of municipal policy and budgeting, and in doing so institutionalize access to affordable healthy food nationwide.
Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action
What does an economy look like that focuses not on GDP growth, but on well-being, ecology and justice?
What is needed to achieve this sustainable economy and how is our current economic system holding back these changes?
We are exploring these questions from a practical perspective as part of the program: ‘Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action’. Together with partners from academia, the professional sector, government and social movements, we are working to shape this transition, set it in motion and anchor it. In doing so, we actively apply knowledge in practice to bring about a transformation of our current economic system.