Description

Developing a food policy for a city or a region is complex, particularly when it comes from the ground up. A risk could be that of remaining trapped in specific projects that overlook a coherent vision of change. This session will discuss the opportunities and challenges of moving from specific projects concerning local experiments to polices that might extend to the regional and national scales. However, how can different localities and groups cooridnate to share objective and advoce for changes at national and regional levels?

In this Session 

How European projects can strengthen food policies: Bergamo's experience (Nadia Tonoli).

• How European projects can strengthen food policies: the experience of Bergamo," We'll demonstrate how various European projects have tangibly strengthened the municipality's food policy, transforming ambitions into real-world changes. The discussion will also address key challenges:  long-term sustainability beyond initial funding, integrating diverse stakeholder interests. Bergamo's experience offers valuable insights into how European projects can enable cities to transform their food policy objectives into concrete actions. 

The power of food partnerships (Leon Ballin)

• Sustainable Food Places is a network of food partnerships across the UK. We take a cross-sector and food system approach to local action and national change. This is challenging but we have evidence it is the the most effective method to work towards a food system that is good for planet and people.

New public incentives on insurance risk protection for innovative and sustainable agricolture (Roberto Casalino, Carmine D'Antonio, Paola Persano)

• In Italy the governance of agriculture public risk insurance system is among the world's excellences. However, Study Center SNFIA research on ANIA - ISMEA 2010-2023 data shows no progress in its economic and social sustainability and low overall resilience, driven by continuous climate stresses. SNFIA believes that climate change adaptation cannot be disregarded without a joint commitment of stakeholders to decide also within the Food Policy Councils the concerted actions useful to put the farmers and local agri-ecological productions at the centre of food policies, healthy and for all. 

Social Security for Food: A way to Build a Right to Food (Somhack Limphakdy)

• In France, inhabitants as eaters are thinking of a way to build a right to food. Their proposal inspired by the long history of the french mutuality is to organize a social security for food. By this food democracy and popular education they reveal how our lives as eaters are intertwined with food systems and how to empower a food citizenship.