Plant Based Nutrition – FoodSHIFT 2030

Webinar: Education for a new generation of food citizens

sara — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:00:14 +0000

Public Webinar, February 25 at 12pm CET

How much do we really know about food?
Where it comes from, how it was sourced, what impact it has on us, our city and the environment?
And how much do our children know?

Food education in schools is essential for igniting this interest early on and fostering a new generation of food citizens who see what we eat as part of the bigger picture in our fight against climate change and towards greater sustainability and health.

The shape this education takes can vary, and in this webinar, we’ll explore the school leading the FoodSHIFT Lab in Athens; Ellinogermaniki Agogi with focus on childhood Obesity prevention with use of big data; the innovative Food Schools in the Municipality of Copenhagen; as well as the UK-based charity School Food Matters and its Fresh Enterprise 2020 project that looks to unearth the next generation of food entrepreneurs.

Speakers:

Athens FoodSHIFT Lab: Katerina Riviou (Athens Lab Coordinator, R&D Dept. Ellinogermaniki Agogi), and Ioannis Ioakeimidis (Associate Professor, Karolinska Institute)
Copenhagen FoodSHIFT Lab: Emil Kiær Lund (Food School Coordinator, Municipality of Copenhagen) and Christian Bugge Henriksen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
Rachel Copus, Partnerships and Programmes Officer, School Food Matters, and students from Northolt High School, London
Emily Norford, EAT (chair)

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What does a plant-based diet really mean?

sara — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:03:45 +0000

Recent research, including a 2019 report from the EAT-Lancet Commission, demonstrates that a healthy diet is primarily a plant-based diet. But what does that actually mean for the food on our plates? In our recent Webinar: Shaking up the Food System, Emily Norford, Policy Manager for Urban Food Systems at EAT, gave some tips on what a plant-based diet may look like according to FoodSHIFT 2030 network partner, EAT.

A healthy diet

The EAT-Lancet Commission brings together world-leading researchers in nutrition, health, sustainability and policy from across the globe. In early 2019 the ‘Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems’ was released, clearly concluding that diets primarily consisting of plants – fruits and vegetables – were considered to be the healthiest.

The report says:

‘A healthy diet should optimize health, defined broadly as being a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. (…) Healthy diets have an optimal caloric intake and consist largely of a diversity of plant-based foods, low amounts of animal source foods, contain unsaturated rather than saturated fats, and limited amounts of refined grains, highly processed foods and added sugars.’

To guide consumers, the report suggests the ‘Planetary-Diet’, a model that uses a plate to visualise the necessary proportions of each food-group needed in order to reach health boundaries for humans, at the same time as respecting planetary boundaries.

Planet and plate

The Commission concluded that not only human health was necessary to healthy diets. Planetary health is also crucial. The Planetary-Diet plate represents a diet that can provide us with the nutrients we need whilst also ensuring consumption stays within planetary boundaries. ‘50% fruits and vegetables’ is recommended, with smaller portions of grains, plant sourced protein, unsaturated plant oils, dairy foods and animal protein. Starchy vegetables and added sugars have the smallest recommended consumption.

FoodSHIFT 2030 aims to provide pathways for a wide customary take-up of such a diet. The EAT project ‘Shifting Urban Diets’, which has synergies with the FoodSHIFT viewpoint, was presented by Emily Norford as an example of an approach to ‘make healthy and sustainable food the default for city dwellers.’ See the example now on the webinar playback.

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What is FoodSHIFT 2030?

marcel — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:03:08 +0000

FoodSHIFT2030 is a 7.5 million Innovation Action project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No 862716 and addressing the CE-SFS-24-2019 call on innovative and citizen-driven food system approaches in cities.
FoodSHIFT2030 aims to launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant based diets.
FoodSHIFT2030 establishes FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations across nine front-runner cityregions and FoodSHIFT Enabler Labs in twenty-seven follower city-regions.
FoodSHIFT2030 features a strong multi-actor consortium composed of 30 partners comprised of 7 municipalities, 8 SMEs, 8 NGOs and 7 research institutes from 12 European countries.
FoodSHIFT2030 is coordinated by Christian Bugge Henriksen from the Climate and Food Security Research Group at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Project Description

The FoodSHIFT2030 project is leading an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon, circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant-based diets. The FoodSHIFT2030 approach focuses on supporting innovation towards a fast transition of the European food system by 2030, which is necessary in order to address the pressing challenges for food and nutrition security, contribute to the EU commitment of reducing GHG emissions by at least 40% by 2030, and revitalize urban-rural linkages and partnerships to secure the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Our FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs

The nine FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs are located in the following front-runner cityregions: Greater Athens, Avignon, Barcelona, Bari, Brasov, Berlin, Greater Copenhagen, Oostende and Wroclaw.

Each FoodSHIFT Accelerator Lab has defined an innovation focus and innovation actions to increase the technological and societal readiness levels of existing food system innovations within ten major themes and eleven SDGs across the Labs Each FoodSHIFT Accelerator Lab will contribute and share knowledge within the FoodSHIFT2030 consortium to drive innovation upscaling and cross-pollination between the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs.

FOODSHIFT FoodSHIFT2030 takes departure in the EU Food 2030 Research and Innovation Policy Framework, the EU’s commitment under the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.) It brings together a strong multi-actor consortium composed of local governments, SMEs, NGOs, universities, research institutes and network partners to address the H2020 programme topic CE-SFS-24-2019: Innovative and citizen-driven food system approaches in cities.

A fast citizen-driven food system transition will be achieved by creating a framework and efficient mechanisms for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations through the operationalization of nine citizen-driven FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs and a further 27 FoodSHIFT Enabler Labs to be established in existing and emerging city-region food system hubs distributed across Europe. Furthermore, each of the nine FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs will initiate the establishment of three FoodSHIFT Enabler Labs to facilitate the food system transition in other cityregions.

Each FoodSHIFT Accelerator Lab will be facilitated by a steering committee consisting of a Lab leader, a Lab host and a Lab assistant from the city-region project partners.

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