Horizon Europe Project
2026-2030
Part of our RESEARCH Pillar
Funded by Horizon Europe, ROOTED will co-create a network of Landed Community Kitchens: care- and equity-centred neighbourhood service infrastructures that connect urban residents with local, agroecological food producers.
Addressing the increasing polarization of the food system, rising food insecurity, geopolitical events that threaten food resilience, and the need to develop integrated approaches to food system transformation, ROOTED offers place-based pathways by working with an international network of pioneering community-led organisations: Landed Community Kitchens (LCKs).
LCKs are social and solidarity economy enterprises that address food insecurity and social inclusion while striving to source their food from local, sustainable and often agroecological producers in urban and peri-urban areas.
Through a multi-actor approach and a network of 50+ kitchens in 20 cities and 8 countries, working with local stakeholders in 8 living labs, ROOTED will support the development of a mix of policy measures and governance models for LCKs, will develop resilient LCKs business models and urban infrastructures, and support the consolidation of pioneering LCKs prototypes as novel neighbourhood infrastructures that transforms food environments, food cultures and food behaviours.
