{"id":55350,"date":"2020-10-17T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55350"},"modified":"2020-10-17T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T12:04:38","slug":"how-one-swedish-city-grew-the-commons-by-foodsharing-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55350","title":{"rendered":"How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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A Solikyl volunteer waits for someone to approach her table. Photo credit: Rikard Rensfelt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s more hands-on than soup kitchens or free-food giveaways, it strengthens the commons \u2014\u00a0and you can even do it during a pandemic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called foodsharing, and the way it\u2019s growing in Gothenburg, Sweden, just might be a model for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

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Foodsharing<\/a>\u00a0is a practice developed in Germany, where volunteers visit grocery stores, bakeries, restaurants, and other such businesses, to collect high quality food that would otherwise have been thrown away.<\/p>\n

Foodsharing groups give away food in various ways \u2014 sometimes through short events and sometimes through public or semi-public pantries or fridges.<\/p>\n

Although making use of excess food is not new as a practice, a German website,\u00a0Foodsharing.de<\/a>, has enabled community groups to form quickly and organize effectively.<\/p>\n

The phenomenon has since moved to non-German-speaking countries with the help of\u00a0Karrot<\/a>, a website that enables groups of people to organize around collecting and distributing things \u2014 such as old clothes, bicycles and food \u2014 that would otherwise be thrown away.<\/p>\n

\u201cSolidarity Fridge\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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A few people at a time visit the tables to collect food. Photo credit: Rikard Rensfelt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gothenburg, Sweden\u2019s second largest city, is home to a\u00a0variety of initiatives<\/a>\u00a0that support resource sharing between individuals.<\/p>\n

This includes the foodsharing group Solikyl, which reorganized its practices as the pandemic swept the country, learning how to minimize exposure to the virus, while also expanding its partnerships.<\/p>\n

Solikyl<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which translates as \u201csolidarity fridge\u201d \u2014 organizes itself as a food commons. Unlike traditional charities, which rely on volunteers to collect and distribute food to clients, Solikyl and other foodsharing groups organize themselves to help one another.<\/p>\n

Thus, the people visiting the grocery stores to pick up food donations are also allowed to use the food themselves.<\/p>\n

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How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic A Solikyl volunteer waits for someone to approach her table. Photo credit: Rikard Rensfelt It\u2019s more hands-on than soup kitchens or free-food giveaways, it strengthens the commons \u2014\u00a0and you can even do it during a pandemic. It\u2019s called foodsharing, and the way it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30468,30467,607,11563,30466,771],"class_list":["post-55350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-foodsharing","tag-naomi-lipkel","tag-pandemic","tag-shareable","tag-solikyl","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55351,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55350\/revisions\/55351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}