Madrid City Council opens up a participative process to the new Healthy and Sustainable Eating Strategy
In 2015, Madrid City Council signed the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. After the completion of the 2018-2020 Healthy and Sustainable Eating Strategy, the design process for a new Strategy has started, which will have as its horizon the year 2030.
Madrid City Council has foreseen the celebration of a series of participative workshops to gather proposals and opinions from organised civil society and the field of professional investigation. The City Council calls on all entities and social groups, researchers, experts and professionals linked in any way to the capital’s agri-food system to create a more inclusive Strategy that responds to current challenges.
To this effect, from the Delegated Area of Internationalization and Cooperation of Madrid City Council, four participative workshops aimed at generating proposals are convened for the days 12, 13, 18 and 19 of May that will deal with the following topics:
- Production, transformation and logistics. In this first workshop issues such as support for professional projects in urban areas, equipment and infrastructures, training and support for new projects, and the promotion of urban-rural links will be discussed. Date: Wednesday, May 12.
- Commerce, restaurants, HORECA channel. Workshop that includes issues such as the promotion and visibility of local, seasonal and agro-ecological products, sector-oriented training, support for short circuits, municipal markets, non-sedentary markets. Date: Thursday, May 13.
- Food culture. This workshop will deepen awareness and training on healthy and sustainable diets, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, reduction of food waste, spaces and communities of practice (such as urban gardens and farms, food culture centers, community composting projects ...). Date: Tuesday, May 18.
- Right to Food. The different formats of aid for access to food (benefits, cards, donations and food distribution ...), the promotion of healthy and sustainable menus in food aid programs and soup kitchens, spaces and community practice (surplus management, collaborations between entities ...), and increasing food resilience in our neighbourhoods. Date: Wednesday, May 19.
Finally, during the last week of May there will be a meeting to share and generate joint proposals, which will take place in a physical format in a location yet to be specified, to the extent that sanitary conditions and official meeting protocols allow. These work meetings will be held during the afternoon, from 17:00 to 19:00, and will be organized by a team of experts. To participate in any of the meetings it is necessary to register in advance via the form available through this link: https://forms.gle/fJs2wBDi1bx5cP6F7