This document discusses working with rural entrepreneurs to improve and design natural food products. Designers would work on new packaging, displays, and recipes to help entrepreneurs enhance their businesses and sell productions in more sustainable ways. The goal is to help entrepreneurs in small communities make a living by creating original food recipes and redesigning traditional ones.

1. KEYWORDS: NATURAL RESOURCES, FOOD DESIGN, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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2. Context: In rural areas and small communities, some people are trying to sell their own
production by creating original recipes or redesigning traditional ones to make a living.

3. Project: Work with these entrepreneurs in order to improve quality of their products
and selling options.

4. Design role: Designing new packaging, displays, improving recipes, showing ways to
enhance the business and keep it in sustainable ways.