Midday Munchies with Urban Food Policies: the 8 webinars recap
Cities play an important role in ensuring the wellbeing of their citizens. This includes providing clean water, clean air, better local transportation, and healthy food for everyone. While food has not traditionally been seen as the responsibility of local authorities, this view is changing. Through projects like Food Trails, local governments have been able to […]
The transformative potential of public food procurement, supporting a sustainable food system and healthy planet
Exploring Urban Food Challenges with Food Trails’ Crosscutting Managers Welcome to the fourth articles of our series dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the primary challenges related to sustainable urban food systems transformation. We will examine these challenges through the lens of the 4 pillars of the EU Food 2030 strategy, leveraging the expertise […]
Innovative approaches cities can use to engage farmers in food system decision-making processes
Exploring Urban Food Challenges with Food Trails’ Crosscutting Managers Welcome to the third article in the series dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the primary challenges related to sustainable urban food systems transformation. We will examine these challenges through the lens of the 4 pillars of the EU FOOD 2030 strategy, leveraging the expertise […]
Why and how to develop urban food policies?
Cities play an important role in ensuring the wellbeing of their citizens. This includes providing clean water, clean air, better local transportation, and healthy food for everyone. While food has not traditionally been seen as the responsibility of local authorities, this view is changing. “It has been increasingly recognised that food makes significant contributions to […]
A Systemic Analysis of Circularity in Food Systems, within Cities and Beyond
Exploring Urban Food Challenges with Food Trails’ Crosscutting Managers Welcome to the second articles of our series dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the primary challenges related to sustainable urban food systems transformation. We will examine these challenges through the lens of the 4 pillars of the EU Food 2030 strategy, leveraging the expertise […]
Planting seeds of agrifood systems transformation in Europe
28 cities join the Food Trails Cascade learning programme Following its Call for Cascade Cities, the Food Trails project has selected 28 European local authorities from all over Europe to join its knowledge-sharing activities and learn from the 11 project partner cities’ experiences, innovative approaches, and solutions. The Cascade learning programme aims to transfer knowledge […]
Good food for all: cities at the forefront of food justice
In 2022, a shocking 8% of the European Union’s population could not afford a meal containing meat, fish, or a vegetarian equivalent every other day. At the same time, food prices in the EU skyrocketed by 18%, exacerbating food poverty, insecurity, and inequality. While recent months have seen a slowdown in inflation rates (5.9% in […]
Long-Term Living Lab Support Towards Food System Transformation
The Food2030 Project’s Family is thrilled to introduce its latest Policy Brief entitled “Long-term Living Lab Support towards Food System Transformation”, realized with the support of the European Commission’s Horizon Result Booster Service. About the Food 2030 Project Family The Food 2030 Project Family is composed of FoodSHIFT 2030, FoodE, Food Trails, Cities 2030, and […]
Food Trails Call for Cascade Cities: Applications closed!
The Food Trails project has opened a new call to identify and select +20 local authorities interested in joining the project’s knowledge-sharing activities and learning from the 11 Food Trails partner cities’ experiences.
Our food system is exhausted
A look back at the Brussels Urban Summit session on urban food policies
