How to make sure everyone gets access to (quality) food?
The COVID-19 pandemic has made increasingly obvious the need to ensure that nobody is left behind when considering one of our core primary needs, food. Access to good, organic and local food shouldn't be a privilege for a selected few. Cities can take action to ensure that everybody gets access to the best available food – best for them, for the environment and for (local) economy – but also promoting healthy food as a key common good for all.
Some cases of solidarity include the following cities
Rome (IT)
Resilient urban and peri-urban agriculture: a tool for social inclusion and urban regeneration.
Lyon (FR)
Social and solidarity grocery shop.
Mollet del Valles (ES)
The Eat Well in Mollet strategy to promote food, health and justice. It won the the EU2020 Health Award.
Athens (EL)
A collective kitchen as a response to the economic and humanistic crisis that ensued in 2010.
Södertälje (SE)
Social therapy and rehabilitation linked to regenerative land practices and local food production.
Lille (FR)
UIA TAST'in FIVES Food-related activities as a leverage against urban poverty
