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This page is the landing page for Kewi Freiburg in the TEIKEI Wiki.
Kewi stands for cooperative food economy. It refers to a regional network in which producers, processors, retailers, communities, and other actors collaborate more closely to organize food in a way that is more regional, fairer, more resilient, and collectively sustainable.
Kewi Freiburg is a strong network for a resilient, cooperative food economy in the Freiburg region.
It connects agriculture, processing, trade, and other system service providers that work together on concrete solutions—regarding their offerings, logistics, consulting, and the further development of regional structures.
For end consumers, this opens up direct access to a community that shares responsibility for food. For policymakers, consultants, and network development, it creates bundled practical experience.
Kewi Freiburg makes various levels of regional food systems visible and accessible.
This includes in particular:
In the Freiburg area, distribution points, depots of community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives, and other places of change are made visible. This is where food arrives, is picked up, or is redistributed collectively.
The network brings together different forms of regional collaboration. These include, among others:
This not only makes a product range visible but an entire field of cooperative supply.
Kewi Freiburg is not just an overview of businesses and locations but also a space for exchange, learning, and public encounters.
This includes, among others:
Kewi Freiburg also offers a low-threshold entry for new people. This includes questions such as:
This creates not only visibility but also accessibility.
Kewi Freiburg is more than a collection of individual initiatives.
The network creates a framework in which regional actors do not remain isolated. It helps to:
This makes Freiburg a space where a different food economy is not just imagined but practically experienced.
The TEIKEI Agora and other TEIKEI structures are part of this regional field but are not identical to it.
Within the Kewi network, TEIKEI appears as a concrete contribution to community-supported supply, particularly where regional and supra-regional offerings are interconnected.
Kewi thus represents the broader regional network space.
The specific community and supply structure in the Agora is a next operational step within this larger context.
In the Freiburg area, a connection is also emerging between practice, network development, and academic support.
This allows Kewi to be understood not only as a regional platform but also as a space for learning and reflection, where new forms of cooperative food economy become visible, examinable, and further developable.
From here, paths lead to specific subpages within the Freiburg context.
These include, among others:
Over time, additional pages may be added, such as those on participating initiatives and businesses, distribution structures and pick-up locations, events and learning formats, as well as documentation of regional development processes.
This page provides a common entry point into the Kewi network Freiburg.
It helps to:
This creates a regional overview that not only informs but also makes the shared development direction in the Freiburg area understandable.
First the local farms, complemented by harvest shares from other regions—supported by community and pick-up locations.
The Fund finances the infrastructure, and the infrastructure makes collective supply simple.
How to Read the Diagrams:
The first diagram shows the union of CSAs in the Freiburg area and all those who want to advance cooperative food economy. It is a vision, which is why the center is dotted. The guiding principles: collectively secure staple foods, strengthen farms, live community, shape the future.
The second diagram shows what supports this supply:
And above all: It must be convenient. Easy to participate. Reliable planning. Grow together.
↑ One level up: Germany
Compiled by the TEIKEI editorial team with AI support (ChatGPT)
Created on March 17, 2026 · Last updated on October 16, 2026
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