Value description
Sufficient quantity of high-quality foods from local sources is an important aspect for maintaining a balance between social, environmental and economic factors. Good food is essential for the health of the population, development and support of local agriculture, the local community, healthy economy, and reduction in the environmental footprint of imported foods. Brno is a rapidly growing metropolis and the provision of sufficient quality local foods thus creates a potential for healthy development of the whole city.
Contribution to the city
The benefit for Brno will be a healthier and more food-provided community, vital and resilient local economy, reduction in energy demand, emissions and waste. Furthermore, a healthy local eco-system, greening and restoring disused local areas, creating new jobs and support to local communities. Food self-sufficiency will also increase the resilience of the local ecosystem against climate change.
Garant
Soňa Jonášová
Director of the Institute of Circular Economics (INCIEN). She is a graduate of Mendel University's Agricultural Engineering study programme. Since 2015, she is the director of INCIEN, actively involved in the transition from linear to circular system of economy in the Czech Republic. INCIEN is responsible for development activities and cooperation with key stakeholders in the Czech Republic and abroad. Its main interests are the closure of biological cycles and technical cycles within the framework of sustainable development of society, which are areas that are intervening in agriculture, development of new economies, waste management, eco-innovations, support of local and community activities with the goal of creating a healthy society and ecosystems.
GOAL | INDICATOR | UNIT | ACTUAL VALUE | FUTURE VALUE | TERRITORIAL PROJECTION | |
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primary | Ensure maximum food self-sufficiency for city residents. | Degree of food self-sufficiency |
% |
not available |
30 - 40% of overall consumption |
Brno metropolitan area |
other | Priority usage of disused areas as agricultural soil and land for the development of community activities (drafting of rules for management of brownfields and setting of priorities when disused areas should always be used to promote food self-sufficiency or other activities related to the development of local stability). | Percentage of brownfields and increasing percentage of land used for agricultural production. |
% |
not available |
increasing percentage |
Brno metropolitan area |
other | Provision of education and support for the implementation of urban agriculture at the levels of individuals and communities | Open education and sources of information developed in cooperation between the city and Mendel University. Information available to the public. |
Educational on-line platform - a web portal. Offline - organizing courses for the development of necessary skills (in cooperation with MENDELU) |
not available |
Creation of offline and online learning platforms for the development of urban growing / agriculture. |
Brno metropolitan area including adjacent areas with agricultural production for the city of Brno. |
other | Creation of community gardens in each city district (both for production and education) | Number of city districts with community gardens (29 in total) |
number |
approximately 5 |
a community garden in each city district - 29 |
Brno metropolitan area |
other | Reduce the imports of fruit / vegetables and other foods that can be grown in local conditions. | Increase in food self-sufficiency. |
% of overall consumption |
not available |
50% of regional fruit / vegetables and other foods (within 100 km, or Czech Republic) |
Brno metropolitan area including adjacent areas with agricultural production for the city of Brno. |
other | Public aware of the importance of self-sufficiency and resources available in the city area. | Awareness-raising activities related to long-term education of the residents in the field of sustainable development, resource and food self-sufficiency. |
% |
not available |
70% residents understand the meaning of resource and food self-sufficiency. |
Brno metropolitan area |
other | Handling of organic waste as resources for urban agriculture (a coherent system where no organic waste is lost and all is used either in prevention (home composting), composted or used for biogas production as part of anaerobic digestion). | Percentage of use of organic waste originating in the city. Creation of an organic waste management strategy according to the waste management hierarchy, with the preference of utilization of the waste on site. |
% |
Currently, home composting is developing, so far an uncomprehensive system. |
100% of biologically degradable waste used within the city. |
Brno metropolitan area |