MILAN URBAN FOOD POLICY PACT MEETING WITH ISRAELI CITIES Steinhardt Museum of Natural History Tel Aviv, 26 April 2018

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1 MILAN URBAN FOOD POLICY PACT MEETING WITH ISRAELI CITIES Steinhardt Museum of Natural History Tel Aviv, 26 April

2 MILAN URBAN FOOD POLICY PACT Milan Urban Food Policy Pact was launched on 15 October 2015 by the Mayor of Milan and signed by Mayors from all over the world. MUFPP is the only global joint Declaration of Mayors on urban food policies. It commits cities to work together to develop more sustainable, fair, climate-friendly, safe and inclusive urban food systems.

3 THE PACT AND ITS FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION Former Milan s Mayor delivering the Pact to Ban Ki-Moon. Milan, Expo Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, 16 Oct 2015 The Milan Pact is structured in: a PREAMBLE that illustrates the role of cities in fostering sustainable urban food systems that are inclusive, resilient, safe and diverse, that provide healthy and affordable food to all people in a human rights-based framework and a FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION listing a set of 37 voluntary actions articulated in 6 categories Governance Sustainable diets and nutrition Social and economic equity Food production Food supply and distribution Food waste

4 MILAN PACT AT A GLANCE 164 signatory cities from 62 Countries Governance 13 cities in the Steering Committee 106 practices to share monitoring framework with FAO Best Practices for peer-to-peer exchange 3 Annual Gatherings Milan, FAO, Valencia Signatory Cerimony, Milan Annual Gathering, FAO, Rome Annual Gathering, Valencia 2017 Tel Aviv 2018

5 MEMBERS: 164 SIGNATORY CITIES WORLDWIDE (April 2018)

6 GOVERNANCE: 13 CITIES IN THE STEERING COMMITTEE ( ) Athens, Milan, Valencia, Astana, Tel Aviv, Abidjan, Dakar, Nairobi, Baltimore, Toronto, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo

7 MILAN PACT AWARDS: 106 PRACTICES ( )

8 TWO YEARS OF PRACTICES, CITIES, CATEGORIES Total Practices Cities Submissions MUFPP signatory cities Governance Sustainable diets and nutrition Social and economic equity 17 Food production Food supply and distribution Food Waste

9 MILAN PACT AWARDS: 16 WINNING PRACTICES ( )

10 TORONTO: Community Food Works for Newcomers: Using food as tool for settlement and integration The programme provides free learner-centred training to obtain a Food Handler Training and Certification. This supports refugees and other newcomers to access employment in the food sector, helps them improve basic food and nutrition skills. It uses food as a vehicle for immigrant and refugee settlement and integration into their new community.

11 ANTANANARIVO: Urban Agriculture Program in Antananarivo Antananarivo promoted the installation of micro-vegetable gardens in the city's lowincome neighborhoods for the food and nutritional security of the population. This has lead to the creation of incomegenerating activities by setting up sales channels for fresh vegetables produced locally. After six years, the programme covers 24 districts of the city, 21 training establishments (schools and social centers) and more than 15,000 beneficiaries.

12 COPENHAGEN: Organic Conversion Project Since 2002 Copenhagen has the aim to reach 90% of organic ingredients in the meals of public schools canteens. The 90% objective is reached by training and up-skilling kitchen staff and restructuring the methods of procurement to ensure supply of quality organic ingredients. The hard task was to be able to convert within existing budgets.

13 LJUBLJANA: Short food supply chains in the City In order to improve its food self sufficiency, the City of Ljubljana decided to undertake different actions such as: support the 800 farms around the city, to help to connect with consumers in the city shorten the food supply chain promote farmers markets, events and educational campaigns.

14 BRUGES: Innovation to reduce food waste in health care The City of Bruges is following a process whose objectives are: to measure and analyze current food waste and its economic impact in four health care institutions in Bruges; to support them in reducing food waste by coaching them through an innovative process; to develop and disseminate at least three successful methodologies to reduce food waste in health care institutions; to raise awareness among health care institutions about food waste, its impact and solutions to it.

15 REGIONALIZATION: AFRICA, EUROPE, USA NETWORKS

16 REGIONALIZATION: DAKAR FORUM IN AFRICA Forum of African MUFPP cities to share local solutions 2016 Forum of Dakar 2018 Forum of Brazzaville 2019 Forum of Ouagadougou 2019 Forum of Niamey City-to-City Cooperation Different experiences are taking place to develop technical exchanges among cities (N-S, S-S) with the support of International Organizations, NGO s and international stakeholders

17 REGIONALIZATION: EUROCITIES WORKING GROUP FOOD Chair of WG Food City of Milan Bruxelles 2016 Birmingham 2017 Valencia 2017 Utrecht 2018 Amsterdam 2018 Tel Aviv 2018

18 REGIONALIZATION: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The City of Baltimore won the Milan Pact Awards in 2016 and since then worked to strengthen the Food Policy Advisor Network of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). As a result, the network achieved the following: Food Policy Advisor Network & Best Practice Sharing: 15 to 20 food policy advisors joined a monthly call to exchange best practices and resources related to specific topics from the Pact; Food Policy Advisors at the National Planning Conference: 7 food policy advisors shared best practices on how cities are integrating food systems into city planning. Advisors met for a food system study tour in NYC; Food Policy Advisors at the USCM Annual Meeting: as Chair of the Food Policy Advisor Network, Baltimore helped coordinate a meeting of 12 food policy advisors in June 2017 in Miami; USCM Food Policy Advisors adopted the Pact as framework: one of the goal of the MPA was to have the USCM Food Policy Advisor Network adopt the Milan Pact as its leading framework. One significant outcome from the Miami meeting was the adoption of the MUFPP framework and creation of USCM Food Policy Advisors Operating Agreement. Subscription ceremony of the Pact in Washington DC. A group of USCM cities signed the Pact during the 86th USCM Winter meeting held in Washington DC, Jan 2018.

19 MONITORING FRAMEWORK TO INFORM POLICY MAKING

20 URBAN FOOD ACTIONS PLATFORM The platform is designed for city officials, policy makers, practitioners, non-governmental organizations, researchers, producers organizations, developmental agencies and the private sector who are directly engaged in the promotion, development and implementation of food policies, initiatives and evidence gathering at urban and peri-urban levels as well as rural urban linkages for food security and sustainability. It provides: Publications; Case studies; Policy documents; Multimedia; Calendar of events.

21 MILAN PACT ANNUAL GATHERINGS AND MAYORS SUMMITS Milan 2016 FAO Rome 2017 Valencia 2018 Tel Aviv-Yafo 2019 Ongoing call

22 MILAN PACT ANNUAL GATHERINGS AND MAYORS SUMMITS VALENCIA 2017 Mayors debate Networking Technical sessions Technical sessions MPA - Milan Pact Awards

23 MILAN PACT ANNUAL GATHERING AND MAYORS SUMMIT 2018 TEL AVIV-YAFO Scholars, professionals, policy makers, city officials and mayors from over 160 cities worldwide, will meet at the heart of the White City of Tel Aviv-Yafo, to discuss and examine many issues including food security, healthy & sustainable nutrition, food waste management as well as innovative approaches in these fields MUFPP-TLV-2018, 4-5 SEPTEMBER

24 BECOMING A MUFPP CITY Being a Milan Pact City means that: You become part of a community of like-minded cities You can participate to the Milan Pact Awards You can participate to the Annual Gatherings and other events You can exchange knowledge and good practices with other cities, building new pafrtnerships You can set up city-to-city exchanges You can be connected with other city networks and stakeholders You make your voice heard in global events

25 THANK YOU! Food in cities is an entry point to address issues such as social protection, public health and GHG emissions as well as a powerful tool of city to city diplomacy and cooperation to strengthen existing relations and build new ones Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan MUFPP AG 2017, Valencia