Uruguay Deep Demo
UNDP and ALC are working with the Municipality of Montevideo to find new solutions to the city's largest landfill, Felipe Cardoso. In the same way, both organizations are working with the Municipality of Canelones on the designing of a recipe book that contributes to the new strategy for local tourism. This work is part of of the Social Innovation experimentation strategy of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which has chosen Uruguay as a key place to test its strategy for addressing complex problems.
- Community 16
- Small-Mid scale 14
- Large scale 3
- Public services 20
- New regulation mechanisms 6
La solución pasa por reforzar y escalar la cooperativa así como los vínculos con otros agentes del territorio
No podemos cambiar el sistema de raíz, tenemos que aprender a trabajar de forma diferente
La mentalidad local es una barrera para el desarrollo
El sistema se sustenta sobre lo informal y genera competencia desleal
Ante todo debemos garantizar la salud de las personas y la protección del bien común
El sistema beneficia a las empresas y no hay voluntad de cambio por parte del sector (por conveniencia)
Las organizaciones más grandes tienen que apoyar a las organizaciones más pequeñas para maximizar el potencial de su presencia
Es un servicio que no se valora
How can we rethink a food system based on a shorter supply chain, with a lower carbon footprint, linked to local history and heritage, and supporting Uruguay's tourism and gastronomy sectors?
In order to respond to this highly complex challenge, UNDP and Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALCk) are partnering with the main municipalities of the country's metropolitan area to generate a system that supports the massive experimentation of initiatives to respond directly to the challenges and opportunities of citizens.
After a collaborative and multi-stakeholder work with the municipalities of Montevideo and Canelones, in which companies, universities, technology centers, civil society, entrepreneurs in gastronomy, waste management and circular economy or the main centers of food management in the country, among others, have also participated, an open and collaborative innovation process is launched with the aim of redesigning the food system in Uruguay, starting with the main municipalities of the metropolitan area.
The process will be supported by the Basque chef collective Imago and with the collaboration of a member of the El Bulli Foundation, and will address two very different and yet directly connected aspects of the country's food system: waste management and gastronomic identity for tourism positioning.
