Tectum Garden

Tectum Garden
Barcelona, Spain

THE INNOVATION:

Tectum Garden fosters urban agriculture on the roofs of Mediterranean cities through a low environmental impact system that promotes self-consumption, and environmental awareness. The system under development is called “AGROPOP”, a product that, in addition to a low environmental impact, will have a low production cost as a characteristic. With AGROPOP we want to increase the viability of sustainable self-consumption by prioritizing the system’s installation in multifamily buildings with a low socio-economic level in Barcelona. Tectum’s current goals include creating a community around the system; make AGROPOP open source; and organize the production, storage and shipping aspects.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Tectum Garden is now focusing on the organization of production, shipping and warehousing (maturing) and the creation of a community around the AGROPOP system. In addition, Tectum Garden aims to offer its systems in open source to facilitate knowledge sharing.

 

More Information:
Website: www.tectumgarden.cat
Contact Person: Pietro Tonini
Email: [email protected]

 

Info about the Innovators and the Innovation portraits Catalogue

FoodSHIFT 2030 aims to launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant based diets. This transition is necessary in order to address the pressing challenges for food and nutrition security, contribute to the EU commitment of reducing GHG emissions by at least 40% by 2030, and revitalize urban-rural linkages and partnerships.

To do so, it establishes FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations across nine front-runner city-regions. In turn these innovations contribute to the FoodSHIFT vision.

An Innovation Catalogue called “Innovation Portraits” was created to snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions.

Info about the Innovation Portraits Catalogue

The Innovation Catalogue will snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions. Each FAL has a dedicated innovation focus and each chapter will present innovation cases from a particular FAL. For each of the innovations presented, a snapshot of the innovation concept and purpose will be given, alongside the key impacts the innovation has in relation to the FoodSHIFT Impact Pathways and the acceleration ambitions of the innovation.

In addition, each innovation portrait is also categorized according to its Innovation Dimension. These dimensions indicate what kind of innovation is being presented, and where in the value chain it plays a role. This is indicated by these tabs. The dimensions are defined as follows:

Product – Innovations in this category address new or updated products, including quality, safety and market impact.

Process – These innovations are relevant to new technologies for processing, logistical improvements, infrastructure and new/improved services.

Social – Innovations in this category are relevant to changes in behaviour (e.g. consumers/citizens), development of new relationships and inclusiveness.

Governance – The innovations address policy developments, including food planning, subsidies, taxing, certificates & labelling.

Learn more about all the Innovation portraits: https://foodshift2030.eu/meet-the-people-changing-your-food-system/