What we are doing
Everyone should be able to fill the plate with nutritious, safe, sustainable and affordable food. However, Europe’s urban areas face challenges to ensure availability of healthy, sustainably produced food for all inhabitants and especially for people facing systemic barriers. 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 food-deprived and vulnerable groups.
FoodCLIC brings together actors from politics, science and civil society to support the development of integrated urban food policies - i.e. policies that facilitate the accessibility and availability of healthy and sustainably produced food for all people and in particular for vulnerable communities. Given the interconnectedness of food concerns with other (policy) sectors, FoodCLIC wants to ensure that urban planning always incorporates food considerations.
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How we are tracking
In addition to the FoodCLIC Pilot city-regions, FoodCLIC aims to engage five European and three African city-regions to act as FoodCLIC’s Broadening city-regions to collaborate and exchange with the FoodCLIC consortium.
During the FoodCLIC Broadening Phase, we follow a knowledge sharing approach by building a network of cooperation between city-regions and project partners.
The eight Broadening city-regions will have the opportunity to gain insights into practices that have proven successful in the FoodCLIC Living Lab pilot city-regions, and to build on lessons learned within FoodCLIC. At the same time, peer-to-peer exchanges between Living Lab pilot city-regions and Broadening city-regions will enable learning, networking, and capacity building for all participating city-regions.
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What we are achieving
The EU funded project 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 be trained in Living Labs to build a policy-relevant evidence base through learning-in-action through real-life interventions, using 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 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. 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).
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