CoFSA

COFSA

CoFSA Food Incubator

The Conscious Food Incubator is a space for collective experimentation and learning, through prototyping and testing different approaches for cultivating inner capacities of stakeholder across food systems.

The objectives of the Conscious Food Incubator are:

  • To test and demonstrate how consciousness approaches can strengthen inner capacities that in turn help accelerate the transformation of food systems to make them more regenerative, sustainable and equitable.
  • To generate a set of learnings and learning resources – in the form case studies, training materials, trainers and partners – which can be used to scale-up the integration of consciousness-based practices and strengthening of inner capacities for food systems transformation.

Find more details on the Incubator and ‘What is a CoFSA Intervention?’ here.

Call for Proposals 2023

The Call for Proposals for the Conscious Food Incubator is a funding window to support approximately four conscious food interventions of up to $20,000 each. Applications for the Call for Proposals closed on August 18th.

What do grantees get?

Grantees receive an award of up to US $20,000 to implement their conscious food intervention and technical support from CoFSA Secretariat (including capitalization of lessons learnt leveraging the CoFSA MEL framework). The intervention will be shared across the CoFSA network.

Who can participate?

Eligible entities: Civil society and non-governmental organizations, including non-governmental academic or educational institutions are eligible to apply. Private sector and commercial entities, and governmental organizations are not eligible. Individuals are not eligible. Partnerships are eligible, but a lead applicant is required.

Geographic Focus: There is no specific geographic focus or restriction on the location of beneficiaries or applicants for the Conscious Food Incubator. Interventions can target stakeholders at local, regional and/or global levels, they can focus on one country or have multi-country focus (e.g. online delivery).

Evaluation & Selection

The interventions are selected through a competitive Call for Proposals. Details of the selection criteria and decision-making process can be found in the ‘Guidelines for Applicants’.

Key Materials

Meet our Grantees

Watch their projects’ presentation: Winners CoFSA Call For Proposal 2023 – YouTube

Leek: Cenhinen Kit, Wales (Identity Food Kit) - Maniva Institute, Food Sense Wales​

From Ubuntu to Kapwa, Developing a Deep Design Approach to Conscious Food Systems at the Edges - Better World Cameroon, Global Ecovillage Network, Green Releaf Initiative, Alianzas Para La Abundancia

Activating Regenerative and Conscious Food System Narratives - Organisation for Environmental Education and Protection

Universal Human Values for Natural Farming - Shramik Bharti​

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