Food and the cities. From policy to plate. Episode 5/9: Five steps to set up an Urban Food Policy

For city governments, food serves as a powerful tool to achieve multiple goals, including environmental sustainability, promoting healthier eating habits, improving food access, and strengthening urban-rural connections. However, ensuring that efforts to enhance food system sustainability are effective, lasting, and replicable requires systemic and integrated urban food policies.

 

“Setting up a food strategy is important, but it is just as important that it doesn’t remain just a piece of paper,” says Stephanie Wunder.

In this episode of Food and the Cities, we explore the five essential steps to establishing an urban food policy.

Join our host, Natasha Foote, as she engages with Stephanie Wunder from the independent think tank Agora Agriculture - Agora Agrar, and Filippo Gavazzeni from the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Secretariat.

Together, they will discuss:

• What we mean by an urban food policy and why cities should have one.
• The five fundamental steps to successfully implement an urban food policy.
• The critical elements of a food policy.

 

Moreover, this episode takes a closer look at two cities from the Food Trails project—Groningen and Bergamo—to explore their specific initiatives and the outcomes they achieved.

This podcast is brought to you by Comune di Milano and Slow Food as part of the EU Horizon 2020 Food Trails project.

 

Food Trails is an EU Horizon 2020 project involving 11 cities, 3 universities, and 5 food organizations. Its goal is to promote more resilient, safe, fair, and diverse urban food systems through co-designed actions in Food 2030-led Living Labs, enabling the development of systemic urban food policies.

 

Useful links:

• Food Trails D 3.1 (Soon available on the MUFFP website)

• The Food System Economic Commissions’ global report ‘The Economics of the Food System Transformation’

• FT website, citie’s section