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  • Milan / Italy

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    New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture

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    Food Corridors contribution to the Conference on Sustainable Urban Development by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union

    Making health a cross-sectoral priority, taking action regarding the food sector towards sustainable approach was some of the conclusions of the workshop in which Food Corridors, through the lead

  • Articles

    Food for thought in URBACT cities: the broad effects of eating local

    How can improving local food kick-start the systemic transition of a city and its surrounding territory?

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    ‘Feeding our future generations’ podcast

    Tune in for the third episode of Interreg’s ‘This is Europe’ podcast series, talking about ‘Feeding our future generations’!

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    Let's share the Transfer Stories from our partner cities!

    Rome has transferred its good practice, the Urban Gardens Management model, to the cities of A Coruña, Caen, Krakow, Loures, Thessaloniki and Vilnius.This two-year process has been extremely

  • NEXT AGRI

    The NEXT AGRI UIA - URBACT Transfer Mechanism pilot network builds from the experience of Milan. The city decided to set up an urban coalition with a series of partners to scale up this positioning in the peri-urban agricultural industry, setting up a stable growth and creating new jobs and skills. The project is mainly an urban policy experimentation that follows the place-based approach, focusing on new skills for new jobs in peri-urban agriculture. The project area can be defined as an “urban fringe”, representing the transition zone between the consolidated part of the city and the agricultural lands.This project aims at transfer to other 3 cities the processes and strategies implemented to create a favourable environment to develop new opportunities in the food system transformation in the urban and per urban agriculture sector.

     

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    Urban Sustainable Food systems – join URBACT’s movement towards COP26!

    Food will be a key thematic topic for URBACT in 2021 – Programme Expert Marcelline Bonneau tells us what to expect.

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    Reinforcing local food ecosystems: a recipe for success?

    Discover how URBACT cities are using sustainable food and urban agriculture to address an array of local challenges.

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    THESSALONIKI TREASURES ITS URBAN AGRICULTURE INITIATIVES

    It has been ascertained through the different urban agriculture initiatives in Europe that urban gardens provide multiple benefits for our cities and their citizens. In the case of Thessaloniki, the

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    URBAN GARDENERS IN CAEN HAVE HAD A BUSY SUMMER!

    After several months of online meetings and communication via email, the members of Caen’s ULG (Urbact Local Group) finally met on 2nd July at the Arlette’s Gardens for what was to be a meeting with a