Irene Fabbraccio

Danila Delle Foglie

Paula Podniece

Nicolas Abbrescia

Iaroslava Sylenko

Tanya Yeroshyna

Definition

Objectives of the network

Stakeholders involved

Economic supports and funds

Scientific articles and Reports

Activities performed for stakeholders engagement

Results

Conclusion

Index

The Sustainable Food Cities Network is an alliance of

public, private and third sector organisations, who believe

in the power of food as a vehicle towards positive

change, in order to promote sustainable food for the

benefit of people and the planet.

The Sustainable Food Cities approach is about getting

public, private, voluntary and community organisations to

work together to develop a joint vision for healthy and

sustainable food in their city or area and to develop and

deliver an action plan that turns that vision into reality.

Definition

It aims to help people and places to share challenges, explore practical solutions and develop best practice in all aspects of sustainable food.

Objectives of the network

Stakeholders involved

Active members of the Sustainable

Food Cities Network

Business,

residents,

community organisations,

producers,

public sector organisations,

caterers

Represented by the governance

body, who has to be as

independent as possible, driving

forward the sustainable food agenda in city, town or borough

and has to work to a common aim

because of the diversity of

stakeholder interests.

Activities performed for

stakeholders engagement

“We want as many cities - and towns, boroughs,

counties and districts - as possible to become active

members of the Sustainable Food Cities Network”

ACTIVITIES

WEBINARS WORKSHOPS EVENTS SOCIAL NETWORKING

September 2013 – “School Food Plan”, webinar

31 March 2014- “Putting Food at the Heart of Local Policy”, workshop

22 Nov 2014- “Making Food Fair”, Manchester, event, http://goo.gl/RM8j87

6 Jan 2015- Oxford Real Farming Conference, http://orfc.org.uk/

Active in Social Networks: News by E-mailing, Twitter [@foodcities], http://goo.gl/NjOFhH

Economic support

Economic support of this network aims to:

Improve sustainable supply chain;

Food knowledge and skills, encouraging primary and

secondary schools to engage programs about food

education;

Creating a strong network of food enterprises;

Tackling food poverty, which has become one of the

most prevalent forms of social injustice in the UK.

Funds

In this network there are a lot of funding programmes.

For instance, Active Communities for community groups and not-for-profit organizations.

National funds are scarces, as similar as cultural routes.

Fund raising is important in this network to create and

finance a lot of programmes. Moreover, fund raising can

improve health and agricultural contexts in everyone of 35

cities of this network.

A very important role is due by Foundations.

NEF research shows that Local Authorities could multiply the

amount of money circulating in the local food economy by400% if

they gave procurement contracts to local food businesses.

The Plunkett Foundation helps communities to take control

of the issues and promotes and supports the development

of community food and farming enterprises across England.

Esmée Fairbrain foundation is the founder of Sustainable

Cities. This foundation aims to improve the quality

throughout UK and its activity is important in a lot of

sectors, i.d. training, education and social policies

The most important Foundations

A particular activity, the crowd-funding Crowd-funding provides a possibilty to raise financial contributions

from on-line investors, sponsors or donors to fund for-profit or non-

profit initiatives or interprises.

In this network, activity of “Feeding Manchester” program runs by

crowd-funding.

Scientific articles and reports

UK food and farming reports

Guidebooks, inspirational resources • Building Local Food Systems. A handbook

• Mapping local Food Webs Toolkit

• Eat Smart Action Pack: Tools and Ideas for Promoting Healthy, Greener Diets

More reports

• Organic Market Report 2013

• The Benefits of Procuring School Meals through the Food for Life Partnership

Food 2030: the UK

Government's Food

Strategy

Food Statistics

Pocketbook 2012

School Food Plan

Results The Sustainable Food Cities approach is about recognising the main role

that food can play in positive social, economic and environmental

change.

Work to embed the principles of sustainable food in policy across the

city to ensure the long term sustainability of food work.

Creating a city-wide cross-sector partnership of public agencies

(health, environment, economy), businesses, voluntary & community

organisations.

Developing a joint vision and common goals on how healthy and

sustainable food can become a defining characteristic of their city.

Develop and implementing an action plan that leads to significant

measurable improvements in all aspects of food, health and

sustainability.

Who can join the Network?

Any town or city can join the Network as long

as they have some kind of food partnership working

to create a better food system. The key is to share

successes and failures and to be interested in

learning from others.

Websites

http://goo.gl/srrC7K

http://goo.gl/x0wz7B

http://goo.gl/At8kVf

http://goo.gl/3H7Ajn

http://goo.gl/JqCeBP

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