Cities and their metropolitan areas face similar challenges and seek appropriate solutions for their specific geographical and socio-economic contexts. Signatories, national and international players meet and exchange regularly also within their respective regions, taking an important step in localizing the MUFPP recommended actions. From this perspective, the MUFPP Regional Fora are a formidable expression of the diversity and regional vivacity of Milan Pact cities.
From the 17th to the 19th of July 2023, the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, together with NGOs ACRA and Mani Tese and the city of Dakar, held the 5th MUFPP Regional Forum in Africa in Dakar, Senegal.
Eurocities and MUFPP European cities will be meeting on 22-24 June in Almere, The Netherlands, alongside the Floriade Expo 2022. Cities will have the opportunity to attend the Expo and discuss new and old challenges to transform the urban food system
On 1-3 June 2021, Kazan hosted the International Forum titled “Healthy Cities. Healthy Nutrition for Сhildren”, the first Regional Forum in Eurasia&South West Asia
of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact.
The first 2020 WG Food meeting was held online in July due to the outbreak of the pandemic, providing an occasion to meet among member cities after the cancelled meeting in person formerly scheduled in March 2020.
The meeting of the Eurocities Working Group Food took place on the occasion of the 5th MUFPP Annual Gathering and Mayor’s Summit, hosted by the City of Montpellier (France) in October 2019.
The 3rd MUFPP Regional Forum in Africa took place in Niamey, Niger, from June 11 to 13, 2019. It was organized by the city of Niamey, ACRA Foundation and the MUFPP Secretariat.
The 2019 meeting of the Eurocities Working Group Food has been hosted by the city of Ghent, Belgium, with a focus on the climate impact of local food systems.
The cities of Abidjan, Bobo-Dioulasso, Dakar, Douala, N’Djamena, Niamey, Nouakchott, Praia, Yaounde and the host city, Brazzaville, met from 12 to 14 June 2018, for the 2nd MUFPP Regional Forum in Africa.
The city of Lyon, France, hosted the Working Group Food for the second semester meeting of 2018. The focus of the meeting was on periurban agriculture initiatives and rural-urban linkages.
The 3rd Regional Forum of the Eurocities WG Food has been held during the 3rd MUFPP Annual Gathering and Mayors Summit hosted by the city of Valencia, Spain, in October 2017.
In 2017 the city of Birmingham hosted the first meeting of the Working Group Food cities, providing the setting for the sharing of knowledge and experiences within MUFPP European cities.
In 2016 a first group of cities gathered in Brussels to discuss the possibility to create a Working Group Food within Eurocities, the main European cities' associations