The Need for Action in Food System Transformation

The European Union has recognized the urgent need for action, and strategies like the Farm to Fork Strategy have highlighted how food systems are connected to our health, climate change, and the environment. While this is essential, it is not always clear what steps to take. Local and regional authorities often struggle to find the resources or innovative approaches needed to make the necessary changes, from how food is produced to changing consumer behaviors and dietary choices.

What is KISMET´s mission?

With KISMET, we aim at changing our ‘destiny’ to transform the current unfavourable condi-tions in our urban and regional food systems and beyond. To this end, the KISMET project has gathered thirteen partner organisations, many associated organisations, and engaged various stakeholders to make food production and consumption more regional, organic, circular, re-generative, plant-rich, low-waste, energy efficient, innovative or novel – ideally, all of the above, as swiftly as possible. Simply put: KISMET fosters sustainable food environments.

Through this website, the KISMET project provides inspiration and proven tools to a more cir-cular and sustainable food system for authorities and other key stakeholders. The project has put together a series of suggested actions and resources based on the experiences of its part-ners and related initiatives, focusing on three important areas: governance, demand-side fac-tors, and supply-side considerations.

KISMET addresses the challenge of local or regional authorities’ lack of capacities, new im-pulses or innovative solutions for transitioning towards more sustainable food. Business support organisations, on the other hand, play a pivotal role in consulting and guiding food companies and entrepreneurs toward more sustainable and circular production practices and supply chains.

KISMET provides the above-mentioned key target groups with concrete guidance and tools to engage more effectively with governance, demand-side, and supply-side of the food system so as to make fundamental progress on contributing to essential ecological, biodiversity, and cli-mate goals.

The project is co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme and is running 2022- 2026.