Iso-Tech was part of the Eat Well, Know What You Eat Campaign, which promoted and shared good practice on growing local markets for locally produced food from across Poland in the years 2018-2020. See https://prostoodrolnika.pl/eng The Campaign included a series of films, aired on national TV, which describe the reality of current practice and introduce …
IsoTech operates as part of an ecosystem of individuals and organisations in Poland involved in promoting, enabling and supporting the growth and development of local markets for locally produced food based on short food supply chain (SFSC) solutions. Our ecosystem partners include: IGPM software company, JWLP Law Office, Polish Innovation Foundation, Liszki Basket Buyers’ Club, …
A national media campaign promoting SFSC solutions was initiated in collaboration with the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2018. The campaign has built awareness of the nature and benefits of SFSC solutions among (potential) producers, consumers, organizers of local markets for locally-produced food in Poland. A key theme in the campaign has …
The project entitled: IQSell: organizational innovations for the development of short food supply chains is focused on elaborating an IT-enabled organizational model, which will allow individual farmers producing at a small-scale and using non-industrial methods, to connect along with other farmers, with consumers, to create distribution channels for their products based on direct sales with …
We offer a modular or phased training program to build local capacities and capabilities for organizing local markets for locally-produced food that is based on a combination of on-line and face-to-face support. SFSC Basics – Introduction to short food supply chains (SFSC). 2 meetings (each one approx. 2 hrs). For Local Market organisers and potential …
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We help municipalities and other organisers of local markets for locally-produced food to assess the number of farms that currently sell directly in their area and to identify farms interested in selling directly through joint action in order to determine the potential for growing a local market that will be able to compete in the …
The Buyers’ Club is an organizational form that connects producers and consumers, enabling them to organize regular direct sales, involving many farmers and many buyers. An organizer develops the Buyers’ Club as a prosumer arrangement whereby small-scale producers sell their products directly and regularly to consumers at prices determined by the producer (not intermediary) and …
IT-PLM is software programme that enables small-scale food producers to collaborate with consumers by creating together a virtual market or building a regular prosumer Buyers’ Club based on a shared internet-based platform for enabling and settling many-to-many transactions and assuring product traceability. IT-PLM provides also a way to reduce costs and increase sales volumes for …
PLM certificates distinguish authentic local products from the Małopolska region. The goal of the PLM Certification System is to build,, together with producers, the the supply of quality local products for distribution and sale directly to consumers, in a way that contributes to the sustainable development of the region. PLM Certificates are awarded to manufacturers …
In Poland, we have approx. 1.3 million farms (only Romania has more in the EU). But the agricultural economic success of Poland in recent years (6th largest producer in the EU!) has been the success of agri-business, i.e. a small number of large farms focused on agri-food processing on an industrial scale and export. But …
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