Green Circular Cities Coalition
ICLEI connects like-minded cities to exchange experiences and lessons learned on the way towards the circular economy, advocates the necessity of closing-the-loop thinking, identifies cities’ circular good practices, shares the latest knowledge and provides suggestions on mainstreaming the circular development in urban strategic planning and policies. ICLEI raises the attention on the circular development in […]
Inclusive Metabolism: Using co-produced theory of informal decentralised urban infrastructures to transform the delivery of urban food, water and energy services in Ghana & South Africa
This research will take place over five semi-concurrent phases: Literature analysis undertaken by researchers to understand existing and previous research topics and approaches. Initial engagement & interviews in each city using narrative collection and documentation, and photographic expression to explore food production, processing, and distribution systems. Co-production around food and social infrastructures will be undertaken […]
Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers
The aim of this project is to facilitate collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors to scale up short agri-food chains which rebalance farmers’ position, create win-wins for producers and consumers and drive innovation in territorial food systems. It does this in five key ways. First, it develops a ‘living library’ of 32 […]
Supporting Advanced Learning for Stakeholders Involved in sustainable Food systems Initiatives
ICLEI’s contribution to the project is central in ensuring the civil servant target group is more effectively reached and involved in the project. ICLEI, will be providing key expertise for the outputs and participants, either as trainers or trainees, for the three trainings on best practices for collaborative policy-making on sustainable food systems.
StratKIT
ICLEI's role: Setting-up and managing a European Sustainable Food Procurement City Interest Group; Developing an Action Plan for Sustainable Food Procurement across Baltic Sea Region and Europe; and Dissemination of StratKIT’s outputs.
Procurement across the Food Value Chain
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability embarks on a new project as part of the UN One Planet Network SPP Programme. The main objective of the project is to provide an overview of procurement along the food value chain and understand how it addresses key hotspots towards shaping the sustainability of food production and consumption. […]
Independent Dialogue about Food Systems in Cities of Latin America
Objectives: ● To highlight the role that local governments are playing in improving their urban food systems as well as identify key food systems challenges, opportunities and priorities ● To generate discussions, action and commitments from local governments on food systems reforms to achieve the SDGs and the health and wellbeing of people and the […]
Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm, addressing public health and territorial, social and environmental resilience
To achieve the ambitious goal of enabling community-wide food system change, SF4C follows a holistic multi-level approach, based on the cumulated expertise of established European organisations and networks, sustainable food procurement and nutrition specialists, scientists, chefs, and dietitians. This involves the development of innovative and sustainable food procurement, the promotion of planetary healthy diets and […]
CULTIVATE: CO-DESIGNING FOOD SHARING INNOVATION FOR RESILIENCE
ICLEI will create a strong EU Sustainable Food Sharing CoP through a Food Sharing Amplification Programme offering peer-to-peer learning between and beyond Hub and Spoke FSI partners; Replicate CULTIVATE’s social innovation and decision support tools with CoP members, scaling them out to Spoke locations; and, Integrate the refined tools into the Food Sharing Compass – […]
FOODPathS – Prototype Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) for people, planet and climate
ICLEI is involved to make sure that the future SSFS Partnership is inclusive and develops meaningful synergies in- and outside Europe by learning from and cooperating with existing networks and partnerships. Tasks include mapping existing SSFS actions around Europe and beyond, assessing SSFS deals and multi-level governance practices, establishing and working with mirror groups, and […]