Food Trails is a four-year EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aiming to translate in Europe the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact’s collective commitment to integrated urban food policies into measurable and long-term progress towards sustainable food systems. 11 European cities, with universities and stakeholders, will co-design pilot actions as leverage points for FOOD 2030 urban food policies development, involving also 21 worldwide follower cities
The project aims to enable cities to reimagine, develop and implement sustainable, healthy and inclusive food policies.
Each partner city runs a pilot project, a “Living Lab” a space for work, dialogue and collaboration to foster innovation, connect local key stakeholders, and collect evidence to support urban policy change in food.
Living Labs seek to co-design and co-implement food actions integrated with other local sectoral work and aligned with the Farm to Fork EU Strategy and the priorities of the EU-FOOD2030 Policy: nutrition, climate, circularity and innovation.
Food Trails facilitates collaboration among cities and researchers to encourage knowledge sharing, replication and scaling up of best practices.
The project is rooted in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP), an international mayors’ agreement. It translates the Pact’s commitments into concrete progress toward more resilient, safe, fair and diverse urban food systems in Europe.
This project brings together 19 European partners, including 11 cities, 3 universities and 5 expert organisations.
The 10 other cities are: Bergamo, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Funchal (Madeira),Grenoble, Groningen, Milan, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Warsaw.
The aim of the Food Trails project is to support cities across Europe to develop healthier, sustainable food policies/strategies and food policy actions.
Birmingham City Council published its Food System Strategy in November 2023. (https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/downloads/file/23651/birmingham_food_system_strategy)
Each partner city runs a pilot project, a “Living Lab“, a space for work, dialogue and collaboration to foster innovation, connect local key stakeholders, and collect evidence to support urban policy change in food.
Living Labs seek to co-design and co-implement food actions integrated with other local sectoral work and aligned with the Farm to Fork EU Strategy and the priorities of the EU-FOOD2030 Policy: nutrition, climate, circularity and innovation.
Food Trails facilitates collaboration among cities and researchers to encourage knowledge sharing, replication and scaling up of best practices.
The project is rooted in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP), an international mayors’ agreement. It translates the Pact’s commitments into concrete progress toward more resilient, safe, fair and diverse urban food systems in Europe.
The project aligns with the council’s objectives outlined in the ‘Our Future City plan’ including ‘Making Birmingham a healthier city and greener city’.
It also responds to Birmingham City Council’s
Team Birmingham has set up:
The Birmingham living lab comprises of the Birmingham City Council Food Systems Team, local stakeholders and Aston University.
The 3 pilot studies comprised:
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