"Mandatory holiday to Costa Rica"

A statement like the one in the newspaper headline of this article raises head . After all , is it sustainable to fly for holidays ? Before you know it , a give-and-take ensues , and clique for and against emerge .

Those who attend the first Stop the Food Fight film fete at the World Horti Center know that this is exactly what the mass behind the go-ahead do NOT require . The solid food debate is already polarised enough .

Stop the Food Fight is a collaborative go-ahead of organizations that need to interchange the food earthly concern . They do so by ' figure out on the young sustainable nutrient taradiddle ' in various ways .

The nursery gardening sector supports the initiative . Hidde Boersma , Joris Loman and Karsten de Vreugd are the brass of the initiative . Hidde and Karsten also made thevideo series’Kom uit je Kas ' ( Come out of your greenhouse ) in cooperation with the Federation of Fruit Vegetable Organisations ( FVO ) .

The film Paved Paradise on the enceinte screen at the World Horti Center

save land in Costa RicaDuring the fete , it was possible to watch two films ( accomplished with popcorn ) , hang workshops , and attend a talk show at the end of the Thursday good afternoon . All aimed to revolutionise and further dialogue on solid food topic .

The film fete attracted around 100 visitors . They were made to think during the screening of the films ' Paved Paradise ' and ' The Future of Food . ' That first celluloid come about with financial supporter from the integral horticulture sector but is certainly not just about horticulture .

On the reverse , among other thing , strip land passes by . And Costa Rica , where , against the course , they have doubled the percentage of nature in their own area to 55 % through saving land . It is the reason why , with a blink of an eye but also a serious undercurrent , ' all agriculture ministers should take a mandatory vacation to Costa Rica . '

Talkshow lead by Joris Loman with Jelte van Kammen , Lotte van Rijn and Karsten de Vreugd

The story for a new filmIn 2025 , the multitude of Stop the Food Fight hope to deliver a new film . The working title is ' The New Sustainable Food Story ' . On Thursday evening , the initiators talked to leading figures from the nursery horticulture sector about it .

Joris Loman and Hidde Boersma looking for input for a new film

During workshops on Thursday good afternoon , they did the same with cultivator , suppliers , policymakers and involvement representatives . The question put to them in one of the two workshop was : What really need to be in the unexampled flick ?

Gert - Jan van Staalduinen of Logiqs with his contribution to the workshop

The attendee were challenged to organize a imaginativeness . In any causa , waiting for a vision from the government is not an option . On that , everyone tally . " The authorities seems paralysed , " observed one of the provincial policymakers acquaint . Meanwhile , politics tends very much towards " polemic " , add Hidde . " you’re able to score with that . "

Floriculture was also present , with Eduard Ter Laak of Ter Laak Orchids pictured here

Horticulture hopes to score in the future with a undecomposed imagination and a good history , without becoming a ' authoritative lobby ' . The hoi polloi who support the initiative , and there are more and more of them as it turn out when around six o’clock a way full of leaders in the World Horti Center were quick for discussions , also go for to take off sour together with non - governmental organisations .

Workshop

pridefulness in horticulture like the Delta WorksDuring the closing lecture show , the conversation centred around this for a while . mass joked about Extinction Rebellion ( those creditworthy for the A12 blockades ) but also carry the hope that they will also be there during a second edition of the film fete .

A picayune further into the future , Jelte van Kammen of Harvest House , who formed a panel with Lotte van Rijn of Certhon and organiser Karsten , hopes that the Netherlands will diffuse the write up of horticulture as proudly as it already does with the Delta Works . " After all , we in the Netherlands are distinctive with food production . "

Talkshow

If that message is scatter at home and abroad , it help if people from outside the sector start telling that story . And just for that , countenance the first step have been taken in the first year of end the Food Fight , which ended with the film fete .

For more information : Stop the Food Fight[email protected]www.stopthefoodfight.nl