FUSILLI Deliverable 3.3: Urban Food Action Plan

Abstract

The aim of the FUSILLI project is to help the 12 partner cities create the innovative environment needed to transform their respective food systems in a way that both makes them more sustainable and enables other cities within and outside the project learn from them. We do this by strengthening their capacity for designing and deploying policies with the power of directly or indirectly changing the entire food systems. There is a broad consensus in Europe that the current food regime can benefit from being more healthy, sustainable, inclusive, equitable, and locally integrated. The many and varied Actions outlined in the FUSILLI project have a tremendous potential for enacting this change. The Food Action Plans found in this document shows how each project city goes about implementing these Actions. They are both important planning tools for the cities themselves, and valuable for other cities within and without the FUSILLI project to get inspired and learn how to go about implementing specific changes to the food system. The Plans should be detailed enough, and explain enough of their environments, for others to develop a decent understanding of how things are done and what must be changed to implement it elsewhere. The twelve FUSILLI cities demonstrate a wide range of geographical, social, institutional, economic, and cultural diversity, mirroring the diversity across our continent. This is also reflected in their Food Action Plans, as well as the other planning and road-mapping undertaken in this project: Although the general aim of the project is the same in each city, and the cities have picked several Actions to achieve from the same list, the ways they go about achieving these Actions are different. This includes different scopes, different stakeholder groupings and different ways to organise these, and different resources available to the project partners. This deliverable is part of the project’s Work Package Three, Urban food participatory long-term planning towards food system transformation and actions implementation and evaluation. The previous tasks of this work package have created a framework for the continued work, including the current task of 3.3 (T3.1); an Urban Food Policy Report from each partner city describing their policy frameworks, visions for food transformation, the broad Actions of the project and the plan with integrating a coherent Food Plan for the city (T3.2); and a report on urban-rural linkages in the twelve cities (T3.4). These reports feeds into the Urban Food Action Plans in this report, and together form the Urban Food Plan for the FUSILLI project. However, each document is also a standalone report that focuses on different parts of the food transformation. The next step in the Urban Food Plan is T3.5 Implementation, but both the implementation and the planning work described in this report have been ongoing since the start of the project. These are iterative processes in ever-changing institutional landscapes, and the partner cities develop their plans and kick them off at great speeds to finish as much as possible within the timeframe of the project.