Vinix Social Commerce vs INCREASE CSA

Vinix is the wine & food social commerce platform where you buy wine, beer, and high-quality food directly from selected producers—either on your own or as part of a buying party, with real discounts of up to 51% compared to estimated retail prices. With Vinix, you can join the buying groups closest to you, receive notifications whenever a new buying party starts in your area, and join only when you want to—with no subscriptions and no obligations. What is a "buying party"? A buying party is a group purchase launched by a group leader (capocordata): someone in your area who chooses a producer from the catalog, places the first order, receives the goods for the entire group, and coordinates pick-ups. The more people participate, the larger the total order volume. The larger the volume, the lower the price drops for everyone. Even those who order just a single case can benefit from the discount level reached by the entire group. What you can do with Vinix • Buy wine, beer, and artisanal products directly from selected producers • Participate in active buying parties near you • Buy on your own whenever you prefer • Receive notifications about new buying parties in your area • Launch your own buying parties if you have a suitable space and some time • Follow producers, friends, and other enthusiasts • Publish posts, photos, reviews, events, and comments • Use Vinix via web and app Becoming a group leader (capocordata) Do you have a garage, a cellar, a storage room, a shop, or any space easily accessible to a courier? You can launch a buying party and become a capocordata. The group leader receives the goods for the group, stores them temporarily, and organizes pick-ups. In return, you can earn significant benefits through storage contributions: the cost of your own order can be heavily reduced, sometimes down to zero. Why Vinix is different Vinix is not a regular e-commerce site. The seller is the producer. Vinix provides the platform that allows you to buy directly, individually or in groups, managing collective orders, progressive discounts, local notifications, and pick-up points. A buying party consolidates many small orders into a single aggregated shipment, often on pallets, delivered to one single drop-off point. This makes distribution more efficient, cuts down delivery fragmentation, and can reduce packaging and logistics emissions compared to the equivalent number of separate shipments. The system is operational throughout Italy. Wherever there are active buying parties, you can join. Where there are no buying parties yet, you can launch one by becoming a group leader. New group leaders are always welcome. Find out more Complete FAQ: https://www.vinix.com/faq/ How to launch a successful buying party: https://www.vinix.com/post/158388/come-si-lancia-una-cordata-tutto-quello-che-ti-occorre-sapere-per-lanciare-una-cordata-di-successo/ Customer support and bug reporting: shop@vinix.com If you love Vinix, leave us a review—it means the world to us. Enjoy!

Human plant protein intake is on the rise in many EU regions and the market for meat and dairy alternatives is undergoing annual growth rates of 14% and 11% respectively. In order to face the increasing demand for innovative products and comply with the citizens’ demands for healthy and environmentally friendly foodstuffs, novel varieties are needed and existing genetic resources in crop breading must be properly exploited. The characterisation and maintenance of food legume genetic resources and their exploitation in pre-breeding form the core development of both more sustainable agriculture and healthier food products. Focusing on chickpea, common bean, lentil and lupin, INCREASE will implement a new approach to conserve, manage and characterise genetic resources leading to benefits on different levels. These species represent a cross-section in terms of their potential value for sustainable food production, and they are all strongly linked to the European food tradition and needs, with significant options for EU agriculture. INCREASE is guided by the European Commission principles “open science, open innovation and open to the world” and takes advantage of digital technologies to make science and innovation more collaborative and global. For this purpose, the project tests a decentralised approach to the conservation of genetic resources by setting up a Citizen Science Experiment. The aim is to spread knowledge about legumes biodiversity and to involve citizens in evaluation and conservation activities as well as in sharing and exchanging seeds via a specifically developed INCREASE mobile app. The INCREASE Citizen Science app This is the central feature for the success of the experiment – everything revolves around it. You can use it for - your registration to participate in the experiment - sending information on the common bean plant you grow - recording data, e.g. about flowering time, seed size etc. - taking pictures to document plant traits such as flower, seed and pod colours and shapes, plant growth habit, shapes of leaves all the way to images of the food you prepare with your harvest - presenting your own favourite common beans - access information on the European origin of the beans you will be growing based on geographical coordinates and other information associated to the original collection sites, such as altitudes etc. You will be able to find out based on DNA data from which location in America your accessions have most likely been introduced to Europe - search for a specific trait and make a request to other EU citizens to obtain their beans The INCREASE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862862.