Europe’s urban areas face significant challenges to ensure the availability and consumption of healthy, affordable, safe and sustainably produced food. Such challenges converge within local food environments but are often neglected by public planners. Promising initiatives taken by municipalities to change the architecture of food choice often fail to become embedded in the wider policy context and to reach deprived and vulnerable groups. Key factors responsible for this are: (1) siloed ways of working and (2) fragmentation of knowledge on facilitators and barriers related to food system transformation. These factors hinder the development and implementation of integrated urban food policies.
FOODCLIC aims to contribute to urban food environments that make healthy and sustainable food available, affordable and attractive to all citizens (including deprived and vulnerable groups).
54 Months from 01/09/2022 to 28/02/2027
General aims
General objectives
FOODCLIC will create strong science-policy-practice interfaces across eight European city-regions (45 towns and cities). The backbone of such interfaces will be provided by Food Policy Networks, which will manage real-world experimental Living Labs to build a policy-relevant evidence-base through learning-in-action. Activities will be informed by an innovative conceptual framework (the CLIC), which emphasizes four desired outcomes of food system integration (sustainability co-benefits, spatial linkages, social inclusion and sectoral connectivities). Capacity-building and direct support for intensive multi-stakeholder engagement (including deprived and vulnerable groups) will enable policy actors and urban planners across partner city-regions to develop continuously evolving integrated urban food policies and render planning frameworks food-sensitive. Results will be communicated and disseminated amongst others by extending the novel policy practices to another eight city-regions in Europe and Africa, an online Knowledge-Hub, a high-level Think Tank and partners’ networks.
CMCC role
In Task 1.3 the CMCC will develop the Food Sustainability Tool, which will be co-created with stakeholders and tailored to each city-region’s contexts. The tool assesses the GHG emissions of food production and consumption patterns through the Carbon Footprint (CF) indicator and making use of the main land-cover categories according to the EU COPERNICUS – 2018 Corinne Land Cover (CLC).
In task 3.5 CMCC will be involved to test and (train people to) apply the model and to provide backstopping.
In WP 4 CMCC will engage stakeholder with the policy makers of the cities represented in the project to co-create and test the tool.
Activities
The project includes six work packages related to developing methodological, training and monitoring frameworks (WP1); Mapping and gapping (WP2); Co-designing and implementing integrated food policies and planning frameworks and real-life interventions (WP3); Mutual learning, networking, evidence-based guidelines and tools (WP4); Communication, dissemination and exploitation (WP5); Project management and coordination (WP6).
CMCC will contribute in particular to WP1 and WP3 to develop and implement the Food Sustainability Tool.
Expected results
Create an innovative tool capable of assessing GHG emissions related to food production that will enhance the capability for evidence-based policy-making while improving policies for sustainable food environments that make healthy foods accessible to all (particularly the most deprived and vulnerable groups).
Partner
STICHTING VU (VU)
AARHUS UNIVERSITET (AU)
AREA METROPOLITANA DE BARCELONA (AMB)
BUDAPEST FOVAROS ONKORMANYZATA (MUNBUD)
CARIPLO FACTORY SRL (CARIPLO)
FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DELLE PROVINCIE LOMBARDE (Fondazione CA)
COMUNE DI CAPANNORI (CdC)
EMAC EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE AMBIENTEDE CASCAIS EM SA (EMAC)
ESSRG NONPROFIT KFT (ESSRG)
ERNAHRUNGSRAT BERLIN E.V. (BFPC)
EUROPEAN FOOD BANKS FEDERATION (FEBA)
FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA (ULisboa-FM)
FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE LA SIDA-CAIXA (IrsiCaixa)
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN (HUB)
ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH) (ICLEI ES)
ICLEI – LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY EV (ICLEI WS)
ICLEI-LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY-AFRICA (ICLEI AFRICA)
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS (ICS-ULisboa)
MUNICIPIUL BRASOV (MBrasov)
STICHTING VOEDSEL VERBINDT (Voedsel Verbindt)
UNIVERSITA DI PISA (UNIPI)
UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV (UTBV)
AARHUS KOMMUNE (AAK)
FONDAZIONE CENTRO EUROMEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI (CMCC)
ASSOCIATION MONDIALE DES GRANDES METROPOLES (METROPOLIS)
GEMEENTE AMSTERDAM (AMST)
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (CU)
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY (SURREY)