Citizen involvement a key ingredient for food policy success, Food Trails report shows
People make cities. And increasingly, people make policy in cities. This is the message from research carried out by Food Trails into the co-creation of food-related policy in cities across […]
Cities speaking up at the UN Food Systems Summit
In July 2021, the United Nations held a Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome. The three-day event was the preparatory meeting ahead of the main event in September, bringing together actors […]
Cities leading the way on EU’s flagship food policy
The climate crisis is at the top of the European Union’s priorities in 2021. Within its plan to tackle climate change – the Green Deal – is the farm-to-fork strategy, […]
Get involved: survey on participatory approaches to urban food policies
People make cities. And in more than one way – increasingly, citizens are involved in the process of building or delivering policies in their community. Now, Food Trails wants to […]
Breakfast dialogues: what role for cities in EU’s food vision?
As part of the EU’s Green Deal, the Farm-to-Fork strategy will attempt to make Europe’s food systems fair, sustainable and healthy. But what role do cities have in this journey? […]
Looking beyond food banks
When Ana Buñuel, Advisor at Madrid’s Department for Families, Equality and Social Welfare presented the city’s strategy for food aid to food policy officers from cities across Europe, one figure turned some […]
