Food for everyone
Open network: eCommunity Garden
Custodian: CAKE
Exchange firms: GrowSense
VENTURES under this COMMUNITY follow the OPEN VALUE NETWORK model's governance.
VENTURES are COLLABORATIVE, TRANSPARENT (anyone has access to the information that they produce) and OPEN (anyone can participate). They only produce things based on OPEN SOURCE technology. Ventures have a CUSTODIAN that represents them legally and acts as a trust for their tangible assets. Ventures can have multiple EXCHANGE FIRMS, which are commercial entities that move products and services developed by Ventures on the MARKET.
EXCHANGE FIRMS oblige themselves by contract with the CUSTODIAN to share PROFIT with all contributors to Ventures, from which they commercialize PRODUCTS.
CUSTODIAN Agreement [provide link]
EXCHANGE FIRM Agreement [provide link]
Project Governance Template [provide link]
See the Governance page for network-level and project-level governance and governance templates documents.
Definition: chains in which food products are identified by, and traceable to a farmer, for which the number of intermediaries between the farmer and the consumer should be close to zero.
Examples: Community-Supported Agriculture), on-farm sales, off-farm schemes (farmer markets, food basket), etc.
Problems: food fraud and consumer trust.
Challenges: Food security (avoid food fraud); Integrity (info about provenance), Tech support to small farmers and short supply chains