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Fair and Healthy Food

Nov 05 2019
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Food Policies in the European Union (Lisbon)

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About the Event

Recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy may lead to progress in the building of sustainable food systems in Europe, but other actors are also driving this progress. Initiatives lead by civil society, non-governmental, local and private organisations are coordinating action on the ground and responding to increased demands for more sustainable food, reduced food waste, and local and fair production that respects both the environment and animal wellbeing.

Europe urgently needs food policies that reflect these demands. This conference will bring together key actors in the transition to a fair and sustainable food and agriculture system to discuss the way forward.

Speakers:

  • Maria José Ilhéu (Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis)
  • Alexandra Azevedo (Quercus)
  • Cecília Delgado (Alimentar, Cidades Sustentáveis, CICS.NOVA – NOVA FCSH)
  • André Antunes (Chão Rico)
  • Denis Hickel (Quinta do Alecrim)

Programme

14.00 – Welcome tea and registration

14.20 – Introduction of the program and participants

14.50 – The Common Agricultural Policy: origins, limits and current challenges

Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups

Presentation of the results

16.00 – Local responses to the challenges of sustainable food

Local solutions and products

16.30 – Innovation and challenges of food systems: examples from international experiences

Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups

Presentation of the results

17.40 – 18.00 – “Wrap-up” and conclusions

Registration

Attendance to this event is free, please register your place via the form found here.

Please find the Facebook event page (in Portuguese) for this event here.

The language of this conference will be Portuguese.

 

Oct 07 2019
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Our Future: Fair & Healthy Food (Brussels)

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About the Event

A systemic crisis permeates our food and agricultural sector. Food, turned into a commodity to generate profit, feeds the greed of the few rather than the stomachs of the many in a healthy way. Decades of yield maximization and export-oriented monocultures in a globalising economy have broken our food and agricultural chain. Business-as-usual has become impossible.

But the tide is changing. More and more research and policy reports and practices point to a hopeful alternative approach to food and agriculture: Agroecology, as an integrated vision, aims to reconnect soil, plants, animals and humans with the environment. It integrates the social dimension of a fair and sustainable food system. At the same time, more and more cities put this vision in practice in concrete urban food policies. It is now the time for a new EU policy, reflecting and supporting this holistic vision.

Programme

09:00 Registration

09:30 Words of welcome by  by Dirk Holemans (Green European Foundation)

09:45 Fair & healthy food: presentation of GEF paper by Kati Van de Velde (Think Tank Oikos)

10:05 Our food as a commons: Jose Luis Vivero Pol (scholar, Head WFP VAM Myanmar)

10:25 Towards ecologically & socially resilient food and agriculture systems by Thomas Van Craen (CEO Triodos Bank)

11:20 Diversity & inclusion in food practices: Deirdre Woods (food justice practitioner & researcher)

 

11:40 Towards a Common Food Policy for the EU by Olivier De Schutter (Co-chair of IPESFood)

12:00 How to build a better world: Challenges & opportunities in the global governance of food security by Mario Arvelo (Dominican Ambassador to the UN in Rome & Chair of the Committee on World Food Security)

12:20 Urban food policy: the city of Gent by Tine Heyse (Alderwoman city of Ghent)

12:40 Reaction by Paulo Caruso de Lima (Liaison Officer, FAO Brussels) and Q&A with the audience

13:00 Closing remarks by Petra De Sutter (MEP Greens/EFA)

13:30 End

 

 

Registration

Entrance to this event is free, but spaces are limited and registration is required.

If you would like to attend this event, please register via the form found here. 

 

Sep 04 2019
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Politics on the Plate – Visions and Demands for Urban Food of the Future (Vienna)

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Event background

As part of its thematic priority on food and agriculture, the Green European Foundation wants to bring together different actors of the food system to find alternative solutions to our current food supply which has negative impacts not only on us humans but more so on our environment. Furthermore, GEF’s activities aim to highlight and to support alternative proposals to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union.

About the event

As part of a two-day symposium on urban agriculture with a particular focus on Vienna, GEF is organising, with the support of Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, a conference focusing on the political dimensions while fostering the exchange of best practices by inviting highlight projects from all over Europe to share their experiences with alternative urban food supply.

The objective is to get inspiration from each other as well as to formulate concrete recommendations for local politicians as well as citizens on how to ensure urban food supply of the future.

Programme

Friday, 18th October

10:00 Welcome and introduction – Rüdiger Maresch

10:30 – 12:30 European highlight projects of urban food policy

  • Dirk Holemans: Gent en Garde, Belgium
  • Emma Peyron: Copenhagen Food House, Denmark
  • tbc: Janet Sanz Cid: Barcelona, Catalonia-Spain

Q&A

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 – 14:45 Workshops: The political dimension of food

Workshop 1: Nutrition and social policies

  • Thomas Barborik: Food saving in Vienna
  • Melanie Oßberger, FIAN Austria: Human rights violation hunger – political causes, false solutions, and the right to food

Discussion in groups: How can the city contribute to improve the situation?

Workshop 2: Nutrition and environment

  • tbc, Global 2000: Environmental destruction through agriculture
  • Thomas Putzgruber, Verein RespekTiere: Insight the stables of the farmer next door

Discussion in groups: How can the city contribute to improve the situation?

Following the workshops, participants exchange in plenary and share input.

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 16:15 Panel debate: Urban food of the future – visions and demands for a modern food supply in Vienna

With: Felix Münster (Ernährungsrat Vienna), Marta Lopez Cifuentes, tbc, (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, department for sustainable agriculture), Martina Pluda (Vier Pfoten Austria), moderated by Dagmar Tutschek (Director Grüne Bildungswerkstatt)

17:00 – 19:00 Evening workshops

3 stations of interactive workshops, among others at the city farm Augarten

Saturday, 19th October

On Saturday, 19th October, the symposium is continued with at Nationalparkhaus Lobau in Vienna with a specific focus on the situation in Vienna, looking at the current food supply in Vienna and inspiring initiatives for alternative (self-)supply. The day will be completed with excursions that will bring participants together with urban farmers, beekeepers, food cooperatives and more. As of 20:00 the evening will be concluded with a joint dinner at Kleine Stadtfarm.

To register, please send an email to anmeldung@gbw.at.