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Resilience Food Stories is a platform for stories from all over the world about farmers and growers that show producing food in collaboration with nature not only creates healthy products and honest livelihoods but tends the cultivated landscape and makes the soil and the surrounding natural environment healthier and more robust.
The climate crisis is a big, complex and discouraging mass of problems. To gain some understanding, and above all to see where encouraging perspectives can be found, Ruud Sies (photographer) and Hanneke van Hintum (producer) visit enterprises large and small, telling stories about inspiring new ways of farming. As well as tales told from experience, they include reports of meetings with researchers and thinkers, who combine the latest scientific knowledge with a renaissance of centuries-old farming practices.
These stories take the form of photo reports and videos as well as the written word, and they form the basis for presentations, exhibitions, publications and collaborations with companies, governments, and cultural and educational institutions. At the core of this is resiliencefoodstories.com, which combines all of their findings and experiencing in one database full of inspiring and insightful content.
Housing more than 120 stories, the goal was to create a website that is easy to navigate but feels rich in editorial layout and navigation. The main challenge was to find a balance between focus on imagery (as Ruud is a photographer) and also having the option to tell a story via text to give more context and richness to the photographic reports. Large quotes break up the articles and scaling effects on imagery shifts the users attention to specific parts while reading. A yellow colour gives a feeling of optimism which relates to the core foundation of the project. In addition to the website, a book will be published that houses all the stories as well. A QR code at the beginning of a story/chapter gives the offline reader an option to read the story digitally as well. This way the physical and digital are combined to maximise the potential to deep dive into these rich stories.
"Resilience Food Stories is not just about the resilience of nature but about the resilience of people and the culture in which they live."