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Fair and Healthy Food (Belgrade)

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Event Background

This event is the first to be held as part of the Fair and Healthy Food project, which aims to connect different actors across Europe that are working to redesign food systems around agroecological principles.

About the Event

To be held in Belgrade, Serbia, with the support our project partner Networked, this event will feature experts who will engage in a dynamic discussion on fair and healthy food. The event will be organised in two parts:

Part One: Fair and Healthy Food Production – discussion & Q&A session

Speakers:

  • EU CAP expert, who will explore the Serbia-EU negotiation process for EU membership and its effects on sustainable food production in Serbia.
  • Representative from Belgrade city garden project
  • Representative from women’s organisation working on sustainable food production in south Serbia.

Part Two: Tastes of Old Mountain – dinner

This dinner will be prepared by Networked in cooperation with women activists from Old Mountain in Serbia, who are fighting to protect their rivers from hydro-industry construction in protected natural areas.

The ingredients for the meal will be sourced from Old Mountain to highlight the power of sustainable food production to revitalise small communities and empower women especially.

 

 

 

 


Registration

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Fair and Healthy Food

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Project Background

The current dominant food production and farming systems are ones of industrial agriculture: input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots that are heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

These systems cause environmental degradations, economic hardship for smallholders, negative impacts to health, and food insecurity for many.

The good news however, is that across Europe, different actors are showing it is possible to redesign food systems around agroecological principles: cities building local food systems, farmers working collaboratively with researchers, and consumers reconnecting with local producers.

Project Objectives and Activities

The GEF transnational project Fair and Healthy Food aims to reach these different actors, bringing them together to find alternative solutions and support positive changes to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union.

Alongside amazing examples of cities developing great food policies, the project will also examine how regional sustainable food systems can revitalise rural communities.

As food is a highly valued cultural product, the challenge of the project is to also go beyond classical formats of events and create possibilities for connections between progressive farmers and innovative food creatives.