Fair Food Forager

Highlighting food businesses, individuals and community groups working towards a sustainable food system. Suggested by the global community, with information and location. We will show people how to create a sustainable food business, produce / grow and source sustainable food themselves for sale or to feed their families.

Access to quality, healthy and affordable food that is produced ethically is a massive global issue. It impacts people, animals and the environment. 

Eating chemically overloaded food, using unsustainable farming practice, supporting unethical corporations, producing unnecessary plastic and food waste and stripping forest for excessive meat consumption is destroying our planet, our health and our ability to feed a growing population. 

There is an imbalance in our food system. Its a factory farming, over packaged and wasteful system. Community, culture and health has been forgotten.

Local economies, wages, physical health, mental health and environmental health are all casualties. 

Healthy diet and environment has a positive impact on physical and mental health. Producing food locally and supporting local business creates stable economy, community and a closed loop food system minimising waste and food miles.

A global community of concerned consumers can highlight businesses operating ethically and sustainably, supporting them with our patronage, sharing what they do well.

Resulting in other businesses adapting successful practice, support local economies, reduce waste and including sustainability into business models through consumer pressure. 

Supporting local economies, improving health and environment. Showing us all we can work within the natural processes of nature. 

The impact

Businesses recognised for and increasing sustainable practice.

Sustainability becoming just as important to business as marketing, cost structure staffing.

Consumers supporting local business and producers.

Increased employment and food innovation in small centers

Everyone learning more about sustainable and ethical options.

People eating healthier and knowing where their food comes from, particularly those currently not able to source local, in season, healthy food.

Beneficiaries include small business, small towns / communities, consumers, low socio economic communities, the environment, everyone.

Deployment initially; website, mobile apps, video sharing platforms, then through local ambassadors and educators and businesses themselves.

Track downloads in the app store - 1,000,000 people globally download our app

Reporting through local councils and government, visitation, land use and landfill data. - Increased patronage in small centres and growth in small urban farms, decreased waste and increased community actions

Local councils and government data. - Increased health, decreased factory farming, decreased crime

The solution is really very simple though innovative, sustainability icons, addressing 13 categories of ethical / sustainable food practice. Combining to cover all issues associated with food and its effects on people, animals and the planet.

Allows locals and travellers to list places they know and share knowledge with the world. It allows business to show innovative solutions. The app will increase customer base and encourage the completion get involved. Highlight and share innovative practice to produce higher quality healthy food and reduce environmental impact.

Competition will push business to do more to increase the number of icons. 

This solution needs human interaction. It involves suggestions coming from local communities, travellers and small business. It works by using consumer spending to influence business and increase impact. In encourages communication and team work in B2B and B2C partnerships. Working together to reduce deliveries, food waste and creating new businesses to fill needs locally. From produce to packaging it can show any community they can work together to fulfil healthy food needs. The outcome is more employment, stronger communities and groups working together from cleaning the environment to growing food for sale at local restaurants or feeding those in need.

The website and app are completely free to users, and there is no charge to list on the site. We are working in ways to create our own company financial sustainability though we want all the platforms to be free to all users and encourage interaction and communication. Even the poorest communities have access to smart phones in all parts of the world. 

We currently have a small admin fee $15USD to help us maintain the website. We are currently looking to build in an online store to sell ethical items and plastic reduction items.

We will also do speaking events, look at sponsorship from like minded brands as well as giving businesses the ability to promote events for a small fee. Everything we are looking at is minimal cost though large volume.

The community response has been huge and in approximately 18 months we have expanded into 8 countries and holding back from others. 

A small team working as volunteers and lack of funding has kept our growth controlled.

Analysis shows that lack of funding or a well financed competitor would be our main problems, however we have been first to market in many areas.

https://www.facebook.com/FairFoodForager/

https://twitter.com/fairfoodforager

https://www.instagram.com/fairfoodforager/

We are a passionate team who are willing to take on the challenge of fixing a broken food system. We see the issues surrounding this challenge and we have extensive knowledge in this arena. 

We are looking for assistance in creating financial sustainability and in networking further so that we can help more people around the world. 

It would be amazing to utilise this network and work together with other like minded individuals and groups to multiply our impact.

We are now a BCorporation and also work with many plastic reduction and food waste companies, non profits and NGO's. 

Our partners are all the businesses attempting to reduce the impact of food on people and planet.

We don't have any direct competitors that we know of.