Contact first name: Bavec
Contact last name: Martina
Contact email: martina.bavec@um.si
Street: Pivola 10
Postal code: 2311
City: Hoce
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Country: Slovenia
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| Deliverable | Notes |
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| 1 - Set of principles and attributes | Organic food will be proposed as a model for sustainability in “green” procurement legislation in Slovenia with the aim converting existing diets to more sustainable diets spatially for sensible groups of consumers like children, pupils, students, patients and elderly people including engagement of different stakeholders. Aim is to promote ORGANIC and LOCAL in supporting short supply chains. |
| 2 - Drivers and indicators of sustainable production and consumption | With the tool SPI (in collaboration with Technical University Graz), we can calculate the ecological footprint of the sustainable diets vs no sustainable diets, which could help to promote the transformation processes towards sustainable food systems. |
| 3 - Actual data on sustainable production and consumption | Slovenia follows the EU average in terms of organic production on farms but lagging behind the most developed European countries such as Austria, Italy and Germany. The country is also legging behind with the number of certified gastronomy establishments, who offer certified organic food in their meals (12 establishments out of 4.000). This problem is the main interest of the national project with the acronym “EKO-GASTRO”, whose project leader is the University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences. |
| 4 - Policy reform proposals/arguments | Recommendations for the Ministry to adapt the legislation concerning the Green Public Procurement – to enlarge the percentage of organic food, to include the requirement of ordering non-GMO food, define the maximum food distance (CO2 footprint). |
| 5 - Training and education tools | Educational tool – handbook on how to join the certification procedure (organic meals) in case of gastronomy establishment. The handbook will be created in scope of the national project “EKO-GASTRO” in order to encourage the gastronomy sector to step into the direction of sustainable food production/processing. Several information’s about organic food are available on the web Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Additional information´s will be created during the first 5 years of OFSP and presented to different stakeholders. |
| 6 - Case studies of food systems | University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences is currently leading partner of the national project “EKO-GASTRO”. Main purpose is to encourage the gastronomy establishments to join the certification of organic food in their offer. Regarding to this we have chosen 7 different establishments and paid them the costs of the certification in order to move current situation in the field of sustainable food systems to the next level and to promote the possibilities and positive aspects of certification/sustainable food production/processing. The transformation of the University of Maribor into a sustainable and socially responsible institution started in 2012 requires green public procurement including the mandatory share of organic food in subsidized meals for students and staff members which will be realised as a part of OFSP. |
| 7 - Workshops/roundtables | One of the activity of the national project “EKO-GASTRO” is also organizing the roundtable among government entities, food chain actors and other relevant stakeholders in order to discuss the problems and create the strategies in the scope of sustainable food systems for the near future. In May 2017 UM representatives will active collaborate on the workshop organised by the MAFF about future development of organic farming sector in Slovenia and achieving goals of Rural development programme 2020. Similar topics – organic farming as a model of circular economy will be presented on the international event organized by Slovene government also in May 2017. Organic food and organic agriculture proposed by researchers from University of Maribor is the main orientation in activities in the scope of food towards “Integral green economy” in Slovenia gathering different NGO´s, researchers and other stakeholders (http://integralna-zelena-slovenija.si/index_eng.html). |
| 8 - Clusters/knowledge sharing | There is established knowledge exchange between Slovenia and Austria through several projects, which is still going on different events. These positive experiences will be expanded especially in the SEE region where the first activities will be seen on the 7th SEE Symposium on vegetables and potatoes in June 2017 in Maribor where OFSP relevant topics are included (like /Production systems and quality of V&P, Organic V&P production, Short supply chains and other concepts of V&P marketing). Developing organic agriculture could be a key for sustainable development and realisation of circular economy in agriculture. Teaching about organic food, organic farming and organic gardening could be a model for education for sustainable development and realisation of circular economy in agriculture. Teaching about organic food, organic farming and organic gardening could be a model for education for sustainable development and integral green economy. In Slovenia, 85% of all area which are available for agriculture belongs to less favourable, 37% of country area is under Nature 2000 and 17% are water protection regions – so orientation towards organic is a natural development path. Connection of organic agriculture and organic food with sustainable (mostly individual) tourism could be for Slovenia development orientation for the future and under OFSP (and 10YFP SFSP) it will be proposed to stakeholders. |