Foodsharing Luxembourg contributed to the July edition of the CIRCLE OF LIFE series organised by microtarians SIS in the frame of LUGA on Sunday the 6th of July. Due to the bad weather, this edition was relocated from the urban farm Kuerbebierg to the Quartier Stuff Grünewald.
Besides providing rescued foods and giving a hand, we contribute with a participative discussion round with the title “What if all food were consumed and no food were wasted?”.
Let’s imagine we are in the year 2030. Food loss and waste are issues of the past. How did we manage to do so? How does every sector look like now?
After an imagination exercise and a collective topic identification, we had a fishbowl conversation, which most participants made use of to participate in the discussion. The invitees Hannah Proffitt-Perchard, Pauline Seeburger and Stefania Filice got the discussion started. This session was facilitated by Daniel Waxweiler.
The collective topic identification resulted in a wall of post-its with topics, which were clustered according to categories that emerged naturally. Improvements along the whole production chain were collected, and the role of regulations was highlighted. Raising awareness with young people was another bigger cluster.
In the following discussion round, we started by talking about how accessible an organic or local diet is and how gardens could be made more accessible for everyone by communes. Then, we wondered why many people don’t prioritise conserving food. Is food too cheap? Or was the knowledge lost? This lead us to talk about how children get in touch in some places already more with how their food grows and how it can be transformed. We also shifted our attention to how to help people to waste less. Could rewards work even better than punishments at the individual level? Too what degree could technological solutions help? We closed this round by reminding us that creating communities is essential for solving the issue from the bottom-up.
After that, we collectively enjoyed the food based on rescued vegetables and fruits and on fermented surprises by microtarians.
And how do you image the future?