This charter is addressed to logistics partners in the TEIKEI network.
Logistics partners take responsibility for ensuring that products, information, and handovers between farms, warehouses, distribution, and communities remain reliable and traceable in motion.
This charter specifies the overarching Charter for Actors in the TEIKEI Network for the role of logistics partners.
It describes not only technical processes but also the values according to which logistics in the TEIKEI network should be designed.
TEIKEI logistics should enable supply without losing sight of origin, responsibility, and ecological consequences.
This charter does not stand alone.
It is based on the TEIKEI Manifesto 2030 and the ten TEIKEI principles.
The TEIKEI Manifesto 2030 describes the long-term orientation of the network. This includes in particular:
The ten TEIKEI principles form the common foundation for cooperation, supply, and development throughout the network. These include:
This charter translates this common foundation into the concrete practice of the respective role in the network.
This means:
The structures, decisions, and processes described here must not be considered or implemented in isolation from the ecological, social, and community goals of the TEIKEI Manifesto and the ten TEIKEI principles.
Even where a role is not directly located in agricultural production, it remains part of a system built on ecological responsibility, regenerative practices, and community-supported supply.
This results in:
The roles, tasks, and attitudes described in this charter can only be fully understood in the context of this shared foundation.
Therefore:
The TEIKEI Manifesto 2030 and the ten TEIKEI principles are not an optional background but a common foundation that must be read, understood, and supported in practice by all participants.
Logistics partners are not merely executing service providers.
They are an integral part of the community-supported supply chain and contribute significantly to ensuring that the connection between production, storage, distribution, and community works in practice.
Their work connects:
Logistics partners thus do not only transport products.
They help ensure that supply becomes reliable, traceable, and community-based.
Logistics in the TEIKEI network does not solely aim to move goods as quickly or as cheaply as possible.
It should be designed to be compatible with the ecological, social, and community foundations of TEIKEI.
This includes:
Logistics should not decouple.
It should connect.
TEIKEI explicitly rejects air freight.
Air freight is incompatible with the ecological and community goals of the TEIKEI network.
It is not implemented, planned, or advertised as a regular transport route in the TEIKEI network.
This applies particularly to food transports, where speed must not undermine ecological responsibility, transparency, or the relationship between origin and members.
For logistics partners, this means:
TEIKEI distances itself from a logistics logic that prioritizes freshness, availability, or speed over ecological responsibility.
Where possible and realistic, TEIKEI logistics should build paths away from fossil dependence.
This does not mean that all transport routes must immediately be fossil-free.
It means that logistical decisions should be aligned with a clear direction of development.
TEIKEI seeks and strengthens paths that:
Where existing transport routes are not yet ideal, they should be transparently identified and gradually improved.
The goal is not perfect representation.
The goal is honest development.
The role of logistics partners includes:
Logistical work should not remain invisible.
Therefore, it is important to:
Transparency also means not glossing over problematic or unsuitable transport methods.
Logistical decisions have repercussions on the overall system.
Therefore:
TEIKEI operates within real supply contexts.
Not every transport route can immediately be as it should be in the long term.
Therefore, honesty is needed.
If existing routes still involve fossil dependencies, they should not be concealed.
If better routes are not yet available, they should not be invented.
If a transport route is planned but not yet implemented, it should be marked as planned.
If a transport route does not align with TEIKEI values, it should not be presented as a TEIKEI route.
This keeps development credible.
The goal of this charter is to make logistics partners visible as a supporting and responsible part of the TEIKEI supply structure.
It provides guidance on how logistics can be designed to remain reliable, transparent, traceable, ecologically responsible, and community-serving.
At the same time, this charter makes clear:
TEIKEI logistics does not merely serve the movement of products.
It serves the development of sustainable supply relationships.
By signing this charter, the undersigned person confirms that this charter has been read, understood, and will be supported in practical implementation.
The signature expresses the willingness to act in the TEIKEI network in accordance with the principles, responsibilities, and forms of cooperation described here and to further develop this practice together with other participants in the network.
In particular, the undersigned person confirms that air freight will not be implemented, planned, or presented as a transport route within the framework of TEIKEI cooperation.
This confirmation does not replace further agreements if required but documents the shared commitment to this charter as a binding foundation for cooperation.
Name of the Logistics Partner:
Name of the Responsible Person:
Role / Function:
Location:
Date:
Signature:
If relevant, additional agreements, role descriptions, or operational arrangements can be documented separately and attached to this charter.
Future adjustments to this charter should be made transparently and, where possible, in dialogue with the affected participants in the network.
The following remains binding:
One level up: 07 - Charter for Actors in the TEIKEI Network
Author: Felix Schröder, with the help of AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-03-18 · Last updated: 2026-06-09 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us