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FER

Fundacja Ekorozwoju

The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FER) is a non-governmental organization based in Wrocław, Poland, that has been working for the benefit of people and nature since 1991. A key tool in realizing its goals is the cross-cutting education, bringing together dispersed disciplines of knowledge: from nature and environmental education, through global and civic education, to anti-discrimination and intercultural education. These areas are united by the desire to involve citizens in caring for the common good and the urgent need for peaceful intergroup cooperation. The core of its educational activities is the EcoCentre Wrocław, a model hub for environmental education and the current headquarters of FER opened in 2013. In the area of food sovereignty, it takes a holistic view of the system it has: from environmental issues (how production affects the environment), through social relations (access to food) to the public policies (who decides what and how we eat). It focuses on working with local communities to solve and prevent difficulties that arise at the interface between human activity and the environment. It supports food communities: collaboration between local farmers and consumers. It strongly supports the transformation of the food system towards a low-carbon, circular, and plant-based diet. Its resources are its people and the shared competence and relationships it has developed as a team over the last 35 years of active public life. It focuses its work on Poland, where it is located, but it draws its strength and efficiency from cooperation with many partners and networks across Europe, of which it is a part.