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Vegan Diet
A vegan diet avoids all animal-based foods.
Vegetarian Diet
A vegetarian diet avoids meat and usually fish.
Responsibility
Responsibility describes the willingness to account for the impact of one's own actions.
Steward-Ownership
Steward-ownership refers to ownership models in which control and assets are tied to purpose, mission, and responsibility.
Flow of Responsibility
The flow of responsibility describes how responsibility emerges, is assumed, coordinated, passed on, and sustained throughout the network.
Embodied Knowledge
Embodied knowledge (embodiment) refers to knowledge that is not just understood but has become part of one's actions through experience, practice, and lived reality.
Provision
Provision describes the lasting ability of a network to meet people's basic needs through living relationships between landscape, production, processing, logistics, and community.
Foodshed
Basic understanding of a foodshed, food region, or provisioning region as a shared space where initiatives, farms, and communities are cooperatively connected.
Provisioning Region
Provisioning region is a commonly used term for regional food supply.
Food Security
Food security describes the ability of a provisioning system to reliably and sustainably supply people with essential goods—even under exceptional or crisis conditions.
Distribution Warehouse
A distribution warehouse receives goods from collection warehouses and distributes them within a country to main communities and, if needed, to regional hubs.
Distribution Day
A distribution day is the jointly organized time when bundled food or other goods are received, prepared, and distributed to the members of a community at a pickup location.
Trust
Trust describes the willingness to engage with other people, relationships, or shared processes.
Full Cost Accounting at TEIKEI
A practical introduction to the concept of full cost accounting (True Cost Accounting) and how TEIKEI applies it—not as an abstract ideal, but as a tangible tool for fair, transparent pricing along the entire supply chain.
Pre-Financing
How farms within TEIKEI calculate their operating costs, the role of pre-financing, and how trust, planned economy, and safety funds contribute to financial resilience.
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Created on October 12, 2026 · Last updated on October 13, 2026
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