Ugly fruit? On my plate, please!

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SOLIDARITY, SOCIAL INCLUSION and NO WASTE – “Raccolta dell’invenduto”

“Invenduto” – the non-sold weekly portions of vegetables and fruits thrown away every week in the local markets of Italy – was reborn in 2012, when Associazione Eufemia started collecting it directly from the market sellers, with the involvement of the local community.
3 years later, the project is now known in Torino (Italy) as “Pane in Comune”. Eufemia is working in 3 different markets and involving more than 30 families that meet every Saturday afternoon in the collection of goods, before the closing of the markets.




Why is this a sustainable project?

“Pane in Comune” puts different aspects together: it aims to decrease local food waste by involving people in need of economical support from the local community. The key is that the different families and individuals take an active role in the process and they manage a big part of it in autonomy. They become managers of a fundamental resource for all, that is food and food turns into its primary sense of common good.
By doing together, new relations of solidarity and friendship grow, new networks are developed and a new space of social encounter is found and nourished on a weekly basis.
The project has been replicated in Aiud (Romania) by a participant of  Associazione Eufemia Erasmus+ project “Think Global, Act Local” that was awarded the winning prize of REFRESH “Food Waste” competition, an EU research project (http://eu-refresh.org/).

Find more informations and videos here.

Associazione Eufemia – Turin, Italy – www.eufemia.eu / www.facebook.com/AssociazioneEufemia/

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