Webinar: Sustainable Food, Smart Procurement: A European Strategy?
SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS: WHAT EUROPEAN STRATEGY FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT?
«In recent years, local authorities and among them organic cities and regions across Europe demonstrate that public canteens are a lever for combating food insecurity, reducing social inequalities, boosting local economies, supporting sustainable agriculture, increasing the proportion of organic products, protecting the environment, and promoting healthier diets.»
These were the opening words of the Brussels declaration of November 2024, in which ICLEI, IFOAM, Organic Cities, the Buy Better Food campaign, Biodinamica and the partners in the Freeing public food procurement campaign - France Urbaine, Eating City, Agores, Manger Demain, the Lascaux centre for transitions, the cities of Brussels and Mouans Sartoux - called on the European Union to consider two issues:
- Establishing minimum sustainability criteria within a harmonised European framework that empowers local authorities to make more sustainable choices ;
- Simplifying public procurement and offering the flexibility to select the most effective procedures to strengthen local short supply chains, contributing to fair, healthy, and sustainable food system.
What progress has been made since 2014? Will the objectives of the Green Deal be abandoned considering the geopolitical context (war in Ukraine, rising customs barriers)? Should we not, more than ever, reaffirm the need to support sustainable food systems and short supply chains to ensure Europe's food security? What can we expect from the revision of the European directives on public procurement? What direction should the new European Food and Agriculture Board take?
23 April, 9:30-12:30 CET
Agenda
9:30 - In the new geopolitical context, how can we reaffirm the role of sustainable food systems in Europe's food security and make public procurement an effective lever
11:00 - On what scale shall we act? Overview of the obstacles and technical levers at work in Europe at the local level - case studies and examples from France, Italy, Belgium, etc.
Speakers include: Audrey Pulvar, Deputy Mayor of Paris, co-chair of the Territorial Food Strategies Commission of France urbaine, Gilles Perole deputy mayor of Mouans-Sartoux, members of the European Parliament and the European Commission, Marta Messa (Slow Food), Jean-Marc Louvin (ICLEI), Claudio Serafini (Organic Cities), Maurizio Mariani (Eating City), Simon Lechat (Manger Demain), Sylvestre Nivet (Agores).
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