What role does urban and peri-urban agriculture play in city food systems in the context of COVID and climate change?

The majority of the world’s population lives in cities, reaching 65% in 2050. Providing ready access to healthy fresh food, bringing communities together, and educating urban populations about the food system are amongst the drivers for urban and peri-urban agriculture in many cities throughout the world. This webinar will explore how this has developed as part of strategic city-wide approaches to the food system, and will ask whether this activity is more or less important and practical in the context of current crises including COVID and climate change.

Speakers:

• Christian Bugge Henriksen, FoodSHIFT2030 Project coordinator, University of Copenhagen
• Elsa Chiffard-Carricaburu, Ville d’Avignon, FoodSHIFT Lab Avignon
• FabLab, IAAC, FoodSHIFT Lab Barcelona
• Bjorn Low, Executive Director at Edible Garden City, Singapore
• Ben Reynolds, Deputy CEO at Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming (chair)

• Check the slides
• Check the Q&A

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In times of crisis, or a global pandemic, the need for quick, innovative solutions is ever-more pressing, as essential everyday systems such as our food supply chain become strained. These innovations can take many shapes, but it is the citizen-driven innovations radically challenging how we eat and produce food today.

In this FoodSHIFT webinar, we hear from a range of citizen-driven innovations driving change locally, which shift diet and consumption patterns as well as challenge models of food governance in a broken food system that has often left the vulnerable behind. We explore different models across Europe, as well as hear from EAT and its Shifting Urban Diets project with the FoodSHIFT Copenhagen Lab, before inviting our audience to share questions with our speaker panel.

Speakers:

Dirk Wascher, Innovation Manager, FoodSHIFT2030

Christine Pohl – Coordinator of the Berlin Food Policy Council

Emily Norford: Policy Manager, Urban Food Systems EAT

Maria Selenia, Compostiera di Comunita, Lecce, Italy

Stephanie Kennedy, Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming and FoodSHIFT network partner (chair)

This event was presented online via Zoom as part of the Eat@Home Forum, running from November 17 to December 13 2020.

See the Powerpoint presentation from the Webinar here.

See the Public Q&A from the webinar here.

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FoodSHIFT 2030 presents its first public webinar on city-region responses to COVID-19, inviting participants to address the key aspects of establishing solidarity and citizen-driven initiatives to support resilience in local food systems. As part of the FoodSHIFT 2030 project, Ewoud Dutellie, from the municipality of Oostende, Belgium, and Hugues Fortuna, from the municipality of Avignon, France, share insights from the emergency responses in their respective areas. The webinar also invites a panel discussion with guest speakers Stefania Amato, Network Manager at C40, Kemi Akinola, chair of Wandsworth Food Partnership and CEO of Be Enriched and Brixton People’s Kitchen, and Ana Moragues-Faus, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Barcelona and visiting fellow at the Sustainable Places Institute at Cardiff University and author of paper ‘Distributive food systems to build just and liveable futures’ .

FoodSHIFT Webinar 1: Main PowerPoint slides

Powerpoint slide from Dirk Wascher:  Introducing the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs

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Annette Piorr from the FoodSHIFT 2030 partner – Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) – recently gave two podcast interviews which you can listen back to here. 

Note: these podcasts are in German! 

World mirror podcast: COVID-19 and World Nutrition 

FoodSHIFT2030 member, Annette Piorr from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) discusses current effects of the corona outbreak on global and regional agri-food systems.  

Weltspeigel podcast: Has COVID-19 strengthened agriculture and rural life? 

The outbreak of the coronavirus has rapidly transformed our lives. In the new season of the podcast, “Tonspur Wissen“, Annette Piorr form the Leibniz Association network talks about concrete changes in the food system and what this means for the future. 

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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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