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 […]

Lunching on urban food policies

Read the full Twitter Space conversation between Anna Scavuzzo, Vice Mayor in charge of Food Policy and Education at the City of Milan and Anja Katalin de Cunto

Cities hungry for recognition in EU food

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“There can be no food revolution without cities, so give us a role,” said Alvaro Porro, Commissioner of Social Economy, Local Development and Food Policy in Barcelona. He addressed European Commission representatives during last week’s event, ‘Bringing urban food policy to the table.’ For the first time, around said table, eleven deputy mayors from European cities and […]

Bringing urban food policies to the table

Eurocities and Milan Urban Food Policy Pact high-level event9 March, Brussels Register here Why an event on urban food policies? When more cities aim to become climate neutral, when the effects of climate change are increasingly visible, food systems, responsible for about 30% of global emissions (IPCC 2019), cannot be neglected. At a time of […]

Five European projects share innovating ways to co-design urban food policies

Five European projects working on innovations at the urban level to develop food policies met this October in Barcelona for the 7th Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Global Forum. Food Trails organized the side event “European Food Policy Strikes Again to connect with the other projects and their cities, as well as the global Milan […]

EU Food Policy Strikes Again

On 19th october don’t miss “EU Food Policy Strikes Again”, the Food 2030 Project Family Side Event at the 7th MUFPP Global Forum 2021 in Barcelona. You’ll be able to hear European cities sharing their work on sustainable urban food systems with the MUFPP community. Discover the agenda “Eu Food Policy Strikes Again” is the […]