AJAP – Associação dos Jovens Agricultores de Portugal
AJAP is a national association representing young farmers in Portugal, offering training, business support and advocacy for generational ren…
Food Sovereignty
Communities taking back control of what they eat: the food-rescue co-op Fruta Feia, the collective grocery Colmeia in the Alentejo, and agroecological estates like Terra Sintrópica. Food as a right, not just a product.
Projects in this focus
PREC - Processo Regenerativo em Curso
PREC is a food hub, canteen, café and grocery store in Mértola run by the Terra Sintrópica Association, offering vegetarian, plant-based mea…
Prato Certo
Prato Certo is a food education campaign run by Associação In Loco that promotes healthy, affordable and sustainable eating based on the Med…
Projecto Matéria
Projecto Matéria is a Portuguese non-profit platform, founded in 2016 by chef João Rodrigues and Vânia Rodrigues, that celebrates and connec…
Graneleiro de Janas
Graneleiro de Janas is a community storage and distribution space for local agroecological produce, located within the Janas Ecovillage in S…
Colmeia
Colmeia is a non-profit local food distribution network operating across the Algarve and South Alentejo, distributing organic and local prod…
Buda Bites Plan Bio
Plan Bio by Buda Bites is an Algarve-based Portuguese brand producing durable physical planning guides for organic vegetable gardens, medici…
Bruga
Bruga is a Portuguese urban planting brand that helps people grow their own food at home and turn ordinary gardens into productive, edible s…
Horta do Pé Descalço
A small, family-run organic market garden in Caldas da Rainha that has grown over 6.5 tonnes of vegetables in a single year, across 65 varie…
Vale do Rodrigo
A small permaculture farm in Ferreira do Zêzere. It uses no-dig, pesticide-free methods to produce weekly vegetable boxes, potted medicinal …
Terra Sintrópica
Terra Sintrópica is a community-driven regeneration association in Mértola, Alentejo, working to restore semi-arid ecosystems through syntro…
Quinta Maravilha
Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, founded in 2017, that grows organic vegetables and distributes them through a CSA/A…
Vale da Sarvinda
Vale da Sarvinda is an organic farm and sustainable business in Vila Velha de Ródão, combining biological production, renewable energy and w…
Fruta Feia CRL
Fruta Feia CRL, a Portuguese cooperative founded in November 2013, rescues “ugly” fruit and vegetables from going to waste. It distributes t…
Food sovereignty in Portugal
Food sovereignty is the question of who decides (what gets grown, at what price, on whose land) rather than simply where the food comes from. In a country where a handful of chains control most of the retail shelf, that question has teeth.
Fruta Feia built a co-op around produce the market rejects. Colmeia Cooperativa da Terra and Regenerativa organise buying and land collectively in the Alentejo. Terra Sintrópica works with a whole municipality around Mértola, and Azeitão Eco-consciente does the neighbourhood version near Setúbal.
Where the model is membership-based, joining is the participation. Related focuses: CSA, local and seasonal produce and cooperatives and collectives; assemblies and open days show up on our events calendar.