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URBACt Liège Sustainable Food Procurement: what? why? how?
At the EU City Lab on Public Procurement for More Local, Seasonal and Sustainable Food Peter Defranceschi (ICLEI), along with other experts from Brussels City, France Urbaine, and Manger Demain, discussed the main challenges and opportunities in sustainable food procurement. They explored the different and complementary approaches of Buy Better Food and the Freeing Public Procurement Campaigns.
Open Food Conference and Procura+
Buy Better Food organised the session “Raising the bar: public procurement role cultivating healthy, just and sustainable EU food systems” at the Open Food Conference in Leuven (Belgium), to convince the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU that sustainable public food procurement is a reality. In March, Buy Better Food also organised a session on “Transforming Food Systems through Minimum Standards” at the Procura+ Conference in Lisbon. Small changes have a big impact and cities and researchers explained to us how.
Open Letter to Ursula von der Leyen
In January 2024 the core team of Buy Better Food, together with several European organisations, sent a Joint Letter to President Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission calling for a long-lasting legacy of the EU Farm to Fork strategy through sustainable public food procurement (SFP).
Meeting with the European Commission
Buy Better Food meets with Frans Timmermans cabinet, Stella Kyriakides cabinet and other representative of the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) to discuss sustainable public food procurement and present the Manifesto on Minimum Mandatory Standards.
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