RCE Creias Oeste-2012

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Submitted by RCEcreias on Wed, 2012-09-19 00:00
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Alexandra Azevedo
Organizational Affiliation : 
MPI
Role in the project: 
Coordinator
E-Mail Address(es): 
mpicambiente@gmail.com
Project-relevant information: 
It is not a research project - but a cluster of small ESD projects undertaken by several members of the RCE.
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Sustainable Agriculture and Food
2. Project Description: 
Cluster of many small ESD-projects undertaken by several CREIAS-Oeste members.
3. Project Status: 
Ongoing
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Health
Other: 
Agriculture, Water, Soil, Permaculture, Food security, Food safety
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Awareness building
Influencing policy processes
Networking and partnership development
6. Expected outcomes:: 
This project is improving networking in our (rural) region. People are becoming aware about the relationship between the agriculture production techniques, health, environment and economic unsustainability. The demand of products from organic farming is growing.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
Started 2010 and is an open end project.
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Informal networks are build for the different initiatives.
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
1
b. Transactional: 
6
c. Transformational: 
3
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
What are the current results of the project in terms of Outcomes:
Several workshops are launched each year. A Community Garden has been launched in 2012, where people are producing their own vegetables, or are producing vegetables to be distributed to institutions of social solidarity.
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
The impacts of the project are mainly at local and regional level; they mainly concern awareness rising and behavior changes.
13.Core Partners: 
MPI, Lourambi, CEIFA
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
4
b. Knowledge network: 
4
c. Innovation network: 
2
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
(Note: most questions in this template are directed to Top-down structured RCE; our RCE is bottom-up structured, that means, partners have to take the initiative and to be involved in the implementation of the project; there is no Top-Management that takes care of this...)

Communication is the main tool to promote the involvement of new partners in this project.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
3
b. Consultation participation: 
3
c. Decision influencing participation : 
4
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
Workshops, field visits.
18. Learning activities: 
Discussions during the Educational activities. Dissemination of related materials via site and emailing.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
2
b. Discussion: 
4
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
4
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
na
21. Research partners: 
na
Type: 
Project Reports
Country: 
Portugal
Region: 
Europe
Community: 
Europe
Community_second: 
Europe
Issue: 
Food
One More Issue: 
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Country: 
Portugal