1. URBAN FOOD STRATEGY MIX
Sustainable Food Workshop for European Cities
GOVERNANCE
Considering food governance at city scale and the possible
role of food policy councils.
François Jégou (URBACT Lead expert)
Strategic Design Scenarios
f.jegou@gmail.com
www.StrategicDesginScenarios.net
An URBACT II Thematic Network - Sustainable Food in Urban Communities

2. Food is booming in cities…
Feed Bristol Project, Bristol…
Sofie aan de Wallen, Amersfoort…

3. How can cities link multiple local food
stakeholders towards a sustainable food
system?

4. Different posture of municipalities:
top-down structuration…
B1: before
B1: after
Eleonas’ urban farm...

5. Different posture of municipalities:
linking bottom-up initiatives…
Bristol Food Network…

6. Different posture of municipalities:
back-up posture supporting initiatives…
Self-Maintenance Contracts, Amersfoort…

7. Suggested question for dicussion at tables…
How can cities synergize bottom-up and topdown sustainable food initiatives?

8. Up-scaling social innovation and public
enabling framework…
short input from Ezio Manzini/DESIS Network

9. How to raise local policy makers
awareness and willingness to engage in
local food strategies
short input from Marketa Braine-Supkova/IUFN

10. Leveraging on public procurement…
Sustainable Meals in Canteens, Gothenburg

11. …to kick-start change in the local food system
Canteen eco-calculator, Brussels…

12. Food for Life Partnership…
…to foster behaviour change through
integrated education program

13. Suggested question for dicussion at tables…
How can public procurement increase the
sustainability of the local sustainable food
system?

14. …other key public initiatives:
Raise awareness…
Feeding the 5000, Bristol…

15. …other key public initiatives:
Building a shared understanding…
Who Feeds Bristol?

16. …other key public initiatives:
Keep momentum…

17. …other key public initiatives:
Recognition schemes…
Lyon Fair and Sustainable City label…

18. …other key public initiatives:
Enable bottom-up movements…
MAJOBO, Oslo…

19. Where to start & what to prioritize?
(i.e. embrace the whole system and/or focus
on certain parts of it?)
What Does Good Food Mean for Bristol?

20. A transversal topic that is pooling together different
motivations (social inclusion / education / art / solidarity /
fair and ethical / environment…)

21. Food topic is cutting across silos… fosters transversality
in public administration and requires new governance…

22. Suggested question for dicussion at tables…
What is the purpose of forming a food policy
council?

23. A Good Food Plan for Bristol…
short input from Steve Marriott/Bristol

24. URBAN FOOD STRATEGY MIX
Sustainable Food Workshop for European Cities
THANK YOU…
François Jégou (URBACT Lead expert)
Strategic Design Scenarios
f.jegou@gmail.com
www.StrategicDesginScenarios.net
An URBACT II Thematic Network - Sustainable Food in Urban Communities