Project description
Transforming urban food landscapes for a sustainable future
Urban food systems are under pressure due to climate change, rising food insecurity and social inequalities. Many communities struggle with access to healthy food, especially vulnerable groups. The traditional food supply chain often neglects local needs and fails to support sustainable practices. As cities grow, there’s a pressing need for solutions that connect food production and consumption in a way that benefits everyone. The EU-funded REDESIGN project will address these challenges by creating food value systems that enhance urban resilience and promote green infrastructure, and encourage local communities to actively participate. Specifically, it will develop living labs that foster innovation in food production, policy and community engagement.
Objective
REDESIGN will support the transformation of local urban food systems by creating Food Value Systems (FVS). FVSs aim to strengthen urban resilience through food-led green urban and peri-urban infrastructure enhancement, foster participation in the food system of local communities (with a particular focus on vulnerable groups), contribute to the quality and beauty of living places, and mitigate climate change through the integration of urban agriculture with the built environment. The FVSs will operate through the development and application of a “Learning Loop” methodology grounded on NEB values to accelerate innovation in all the steps of the food system (including production, consumption, exchange, and disposal) and expand beyond the notion of ‘food chain’ to integrate the cultural, social and political dimensions of the transformation. The network will consist of three main groups of actors, ‘observation’ cases, ‘implementation’ cases, and a board of cities. Observation cases exemplify consolidated best practices. In the pilots, the REDESIGN Food Value Networks will be set up and implemented with the involvement of local stakeholders, particularly vulnerable groups. Each implementation case will have a specific focus on one of the domains of the urban food system (nutrient recovery and food production, the setting up of a multifunctional food lab, and food policy councils). The implementation cases will become Living Labs, through which the innovation in local food value networks will scale up at two levels: the metropolitan one, contaminating nearby districts through training and transfer, and the international one, enhancing the observation cases (closing the ‘learning loop’), and informing the board of cities for policy innovation and learning. Results will include regenerated neighborhoods in the implementation cases, the setting of three Living Labs steering the Food Value Networks, a Learning Loop methodology, all scalable and replicable in other contexts.
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-COMMUNITIES-01
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40126 Bologna
Italy
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