On 19 January, the UK-based organic food partnerships network, Sustainable Food Places, launched an initiative to provide grants to SFP members in deprived areas in England that have been hit hard by Covid-19.
In 2015, the City of Paris set itself the target of achieving 50% sustainable food in its 1,300 community restaurants by 2020. So, how did it get on?
What is the Farm to Fork Strategy, what are its goals and what does it mean for farmers, the fishing community and members of the public?
On November 23, 2020, at this year’s autumn meeting, the German Bio-Städte network appointed two new spokespersons. Ronny Meyer, the State Councillor for Environment and Transport from Bremen, and the Augsburg-based Reiner Erben, Officer for Sustainability, Environment, Climate and Health, were chosen to represent the 21 German organic cities. The new dual leadership bridges the ...Read More
Sustainable farming policy and the European Green Deal. What will the agricultural sector in Italy do to achieve tthe ambitious targets.
In its new publication, The National Association of Independent farmers in Italy addresses the direction the CAP is taking in the light of political change in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 6 and 7 December 2018, the first Organic Cities Network Europe event was held in the Florence City Hall. In attendance were the representatives and administrators of the founding cities and organisations of the European-wide network.
In addition to the Farmers', Organic and Traditional Producers' Market, held every first Sunday of the month in the historic centre, watercolourists, landscape painters and portrait painters will be exhibiting and painting their works in Via dell'Amore.
NUREMBERG, 15 FEBRUARY 2018 – As of today, Europe is one step closer to transforming food and farming. The ‘Organic City Network Europe’ and IFOAM EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Biofach to give a strong foundation to their collaboration to work together towards a fair, environmentally conscious, healthy and caring food and farming ...Read More
For those familiar with Asterix comics, Mouans-Sartoux (FR) could be compared to a small sustainable city, surrounded by the rather unsustainable French Riviera, where it’s all about real estate interest, high pressure on land use and mass tourism. At the core of the city’s sustainable food project Good Practice, is a canteen serving one thousand ...Read More
