MUFPP to collaborate with the EU platform on Food Losses and Food Waste; follow the kick off meeting
Sustainable Development Goal 12 calls for a paradigm shift in production and consumption patterns. Target 12.3, in particular aims to “by 2030 halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”. The most recent estimates of European food waste […]
The World of MUFPP: Baltimore winner of Milan Pact Awards for the Baltimore food policy initiative
The city of Baltimore won the first Milan Pact Awards (Highest Score Award) for the Baltimore food policy initiative (BFPI). In 2010 mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake dcided to hire a food policy director to enhance collaboration among city’s agency to achieve two main goals: 1. Establish Baltimore as a leader in sustainable local food systems 2. […]
The world of MUFPP: Valencia hosting city of 2017 Annual Gathering
In 2017 Valencia will host the MUFPP annual gathering. This video explains some of the peculiarities of Valencia food and agricultural landscape and highlights the efforts the city is undertaking to become more sustainable. One of the best examples is La Huerta: the Green Belt of the City: over 23,000 hectares, where cultivations and orchards […]
WORLD FOOD DAY: CITIES OF MILAN URBAN FOOD POLICY PACT GATHERED AT FAO FOR THE SECOND MAYORS SUMMIT
On 14 October 2016 mayors and delegates of MUFPP signatories cities gathered at FAO headquarters in Rome, on the occasion of the World Food Day celebrations for the second Mayors’ summit. “The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact represents one of the most important legacies of Expo 2015, it shows the capacity to translate food policies […]
Annual Gathering and Mayors summit 2016: draft agenda
The MUFPP Annual Gathering and Mayors Summit 2016 will take place on 13-14 October at FAO Headquarters in Rome, on the occasion of the World Food Day. View the draft agenda Download here the Annual Gathering and Mayors’ summit draft agenda in English Download here the Annual Gathering and Mayors’ summit draft agenda in French
Milan Pact Awards: the evaluation committee has been formed
We are happy to announce that the evaluation committee of the Milan Pact Awards have been formed. It comprises representatives from scientific, research, donor, international, civil society, private sector and media organizations: Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley Roberto Barbieri, OXFAM Italy, Rome Ashley Baxstrom, Food & Nutrition Representative to United Nations Secretary General, New York Mi Sook […]
Milan Pact Awards: a prize to stimulate the exchange of good practices
One of the most important goals of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) is to stimulate the exchange of good practices and learning between signatory cities. To foster this collaboration the MUFPP Secretariat in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo launched the Milan Pact Awards. The Milan Pact Awards will reward innovative projects on urban food policies […]
Mayor Pisapia at GFFA forum in Berlin: “Urban-rural relations are strategic"
“We live in the urban century, the relations between urban and rural areas are strategic. Cities are going to face complex challenges. One of the most difficult is to ensure the right to food to everyone without putting the future of our planet in danger.” said Mayor Giuliano Pisapia in his keynote speech at Global […]
The City of Milan at COP21 to promote a more sustainable food system
Milan together with other great cities of the world will take part in the climate summit for local leaders co-hosted by the City of Paris and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg. The summit is organized in collaboration with C40 climate smart network on the occasion of the […]
FAO to work with the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact cities
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, promulgated earlier this year on the occasion of the 2015 World Expo, offers a unique international platform to make city food systems more equitable and sustainable, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva (Left in the picture ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico) and the Italian city’s Mayor, Giuliano Pisapia, said today. FAO and […]
