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Tools and Services

Demand area nutrition

The actual demand in the area "nutrition" is defined as following: Well balanced nutrition under fair working conditions resulting in less environmental impact with a good price level.

Under the aspect of system innovation also behavioural changes from carnivores to vegetarians and social changes which forced a boom in fast food and food supplements are covered. A sustainable lifestyle starts with food. That means the use of biological, regional, fair trade and seasonal foods with mainly renouncing meat. Real system innovations start at behavioural changes.

Examples

Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International Network of 20 member organisations for labelling and standardizing products within fair trade.
AMA Informations about the AMA Seal of Approval, quality assurance programms and the AMA Organic Seal
Biowichtl delivery service for organic food
Futuro-price The futuro price shows the real price a product would have if it would have been produced under fair and eco-friendly conditions.
free from genetic engineering The goal of this consortium is the production, sale and promotion of food free from genetic engineering.
BIO AUSTRIA BIO AUSTRIA is a Information portal for organic farmers in Austria and defines the standards for the AMA Organic Seal.
Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange network (SCORE!) The goal of this network is to bundle Sustainable Consumption and Production research expertise, in the EU and beyond.