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Project CP/59 - “Instruments and institutions to develop local food systems” CHAPTER 3 INVENTORY OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS A twofold inventory is made consisting of (1) all LFS with a network character in Flanders, and (2) the institutions that facilitate the establishment and working of the LFS. For the first inventory on LFS in Flanders we started from the existing inventory by Jan Vannoppen and Pierre Stassart on short food chains in Belgium. This inventory was put together in 1999, in the framework of the DWTC programme on future-prospected socio-economic research ‘Is the state to intervene, and can it intervene in developing a social economy?’. The existing inventory was updated and completed. The expanded inventory on LFS is based on criteria of social, economic, environmental and institutional performance, as mentioned in chapter 1. The first inventory is based on the working definition of LFS, developed in chapter 1. Individual farms with on-farm sales are not included because there is already an inventory of on-farm sales, made by the Vlaams Agrarisch Centrum (VAC) under the authority of the Administratie Land- en Tuinbouw (ALT). Members of the LFS in our inventory where interviewed by phone to collect information such as: contact information, product category, percentage purchased products, production method, nature of the interaction with the client, selling system, learning points of the system (positive and negative), start up year, motivation, etc. The second inventory contains the institutions that facilitate the establishment and working of local food systems. This inventory is composed through information received from the LFS that were interviewed and through searching on the internet. The inventory on LFS was made based on the working definition developed in chapter 1. The list contains LFS of the following kind: • box schemes • producer cooperatives • marketing cooperatives • farmers’ markets • home sales • catering. The inventory on institutions that facilitate the establishment and working of LFS contains a number of organisations (governmental and non-governmental) classified in six types: • policy advice through research within the sector • communication and promotion • fiscal advice for farmers • knowledge and training • financing • rural development. SPSD II - Part I - Sustainable production and consumption patterns - Agro-Food 59
Project CP/59 - “Instruments and institutions to develop local food systems” The inventories have been continuously updated during the project, with input from case studies and relevant contacts. The accompanying committee strongly adviced against the project spending too much resources to the development of an interactive website featuring the inventory of local food systems and a number of communications targeted at the final consumer. The committee sees this as the responsibility of end users of our research results. For further details, the inventories and the describing documents on the analysis, can be consulted at Vredeseilanden. SPSD II - Part I - Sustainable production and consumption patterns - Agro-Food 60
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