Projeto SEMENTE

Name Project SEMENTE
Status Ongoing
Location Tavira
Entity Association In Loco

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About the project

The project focuses on 5 vulnerable neighbourhoods in Tavira: Bairro da Atalaia, Bairro Social José Joaquim Jara, Bairro da Horta do Carmo Bairro, Porta Nova and Bairro Bela Fria and has the mission to fight food insecurity by strengthening food self-determination and affirming the right to adequate food, planting the seeds to strengthen urban production/consumption capacity in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods of Tavira.
Objectives:
1 - Design and implement an empowerment strategy with the inhabitants of the 5 neighbourhoods for food self-determination;
2 - Install two demonstrative communities "Urban Gardens" for 50 inhabitants of the neighbourhoods, on a land belonging to the Agricultural Experimentation Centre of Tavira (CEAT) and another one in the space adjacent to the municipal swimming pools.
3 - Disseminate to the community of Tavira the inspiring results of the SEMENTE project, inspired by the principles of the Mediterranean Diet.

New European Bauhaus Framework

Urban gardens, particularly those that seek to respond to social needs, represent an innovative form of urban renewal, participatory and solidarity-based, elements focused on the NEB movement. This project allows rethinking urban life and adopting new lifestyles characterised by a more balanced, sustainable, productive and fair way of living in urban spaces and assuming the capacity to improve them.