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Public Food campaigns for a public service for good food, and we’ve put our own words into practice by creating the first public facility for good food in the Netherlands, Mensa Mensa.

Public Food is a non-profit foundation. Our work is funded by income from catering, foundations, and subsidies, and by donations from people like you and me. Will you donate to make our work possible?

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We run campaigns to put the plea for food as a public service on the social and political agenda. Thanks to our work … Triodos put our plea for ​​food as a public facility on number 1 in their top 10 interventions to reform the food system, and the political parties GroenLinks-PvdA, de Partij voor de Dieren en de SP added our plea to their election program for the parliamentary elections.

 

Mensa Mensa: a direct impact in the neighborhood

We’re putting our advocacy into practice. Mensa Mensa has a direct impact in the neighborhood, where healthy eating isn’t a given. At Mealprep, residents prepare 12,500 healthy meals for their own families each year. Meals are served in the canteen five days a week. On Wednesday afternoons, there’s a children’s cooking workshop — Mealprep Junior. And through learning by doing, we collaborate with engaged residents to develop new programs and build a growing community of critical eaters.

Scaling up: from local to national

We are developing Mensa Mensa in Rotterdam as a working example A blueprint that social organizations in other cities can use to launch similar initiatives. We’re combine our knowledge and experience with target groups, menus, business operations, finances, stakeholders, and communication into a viable existence model (not a revenue model).

 

 

Research and development: towards a public food sector

If food isn’t a market opportunity, but a public service, how does that work in practice? We’re conducting research on a public food sector from the perspectives of citizens, consumers, farmers, supermarkets, and government. This research is conducted through a think tank, publications, events, and conferences. We’re translating this into a new narrative for a broad audience.