What does the Sustainable Food Lab do?
Our change strategy is built on four mutually reinforcing activity areas: leadership, implementation, organizational change and shared learning. Participants work on concrete projects implementing more sustainable food supply chains and in the process gain leadership skills and networks. Greater leadership skills in turn, lead to larger scale implementation projects and organization level change. Organizational change and shared learning also build leadership and the network even as they facilitate more change and diffuse the learning. We build leadership by leading multi-stakeholder learning journeys to build concrete knowledge, a sense of shared endeavor and bridge what participants expect to see as a divide between the interests of various actors along the chain. Our Food Lab Summits provide members with case studies, opportunities for in depth learning and additional networking. Business Coalition meetings build the capacity of business leaders to think about their role in the food
