As part of the F2G project, researchers' teams in each country conducted studies about relevant food related initiatives.

The foodscapes investigated included emergency locations and refugees’ encampments in urban areas; a soup-kitchen serving refugees; associative resource centers in rural areas; a social entrepreneur devoted to migrant children and youths; municipality programs for refugees; entrepreneurial restoration activities run by refugees; street food start up; an asylum seekers’ reception center with a focus on children. You can find detailed information on the case studies in this report: 28-2-22 WP3 REPORT WITH FIGURES fourth draft GIOV E DONI RM.pdf

Here is a summary of the case studies

The French team conducted ethnographic research in five venues, both in rural and urban areas, which encompass a broad range of realities supporting locals, migrants and refugees, working with five different partners: Coeur de Bastide, an associative resource centre situated in the rural town Ste-Foy-la-Grande; Les Râteleurs, an association supporting local quality food access; the local branch in Bègles of the National association Secours Populaire which supports people in a situation of precariousness; l’Estey, a municipal resource centre in Bègles attended by migrant families; Squats in the Bordeaux metropolitan area.
The German team conducted research in Berlin with REFUEAT, a food business which sells Syrian food all over the city making use of bicycles for delivery, and with Ueber den Tellerand, an association which supports cooking groups, and community events to facilitate encounter between migrants and locals.
The Belgian team conducted ethnographic research in an asylum-seeker centre, Red Cross Centre “La Trientale” hosting both families with children and single persons, and among migrant children attending the public school Ecole de Louveigné in the province of Liège.
The Norwegian team conducted research in Oslo with Healthy Start, a municipality run health and food education project directed to migrants and with Kompass, a social entrepreneur which aimed at integrating children and youth of migrant background.
The Dutch team conducted research with We Are Here, an association of asylum seekers whose application was rejected by the State, working with art projects aimed at integration. A considerable part of the research was devoted to video production.
The Italian team conducted ethnographic research in six different venues located in Rome, Ventimiglia, Padova and Venice, associated with six different partners: the Astalli soup-kitchen, a Jesuit run centre which serves refugees; Baobab Experience, a grassroot hospitality association, which leads a solidarity network in support of refugees living in informal encampments in Rome; the 20K, a collective solidarity group which assists migrants in-transit at the Italian-French border; Orient Experience, a restaurant run by Afghan refugees located in Venice offering a culinary journey from the whole middle east; Peace ‘n’ Spice, a Padova based restaurant run by Afghan refugees serving flavors and tastes of travel routes; Popoli Insieme, a Padova based association which hosted a digital cooking workshop run by refugee women.