WFTO-Europe is a partner in the Food Smart Cities for Development Project. We yearly give financial support to the project and try to be involved in as much as possible activities in the neighbourhood.
On the 28th of May 2016, we participated in the event called (H)eerlijk Brugge, what is Dutch for Tasty/Fair Bruges (Heerlijk means tasty, eerlijk means fair) held in Bruges, one of the cities participating in the project Food Smart Cities for development. Several stands with sustainable, local and fair food where present during this festival. People had the opportunity to learn more about sustainable food, had the change to eat for free during a banquet from food what otherwise would be wasted (food from restaurants which bought too much for instance and can’t sell it anymore the next day). Also there were many fun games for children to learn about food.
WFTO-Europe prmotes the Food Smart Cities for Development project on social media (facebook and twitter).
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From 21 to 23 September 2016 the capital of Senegal hosted the Dakar Forum to discuss and share ideas and projects on the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact implementation and sustainable urban development. The forum saw the participation of six West African Cities: Dakar, Abidjan (Cote...
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Bilbao promotes a participatory process of discussion and development of guidelines for local food governance involving civil society, citizenship and economic and social sectors that have something to do in the food system of the city. The objective of this strategy is to involve associations...
On September 26 2015 the Festival “Hier en Daar” took place to raise awareness on the effects of our decisions ‘here’ to other countries ‘there’. The municipality in cooperation with several parties in Utrecht held workshops on different food themes: Fairtrade and local food in catering...
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Turin was proud to host the 3rd edition of the LED Forum in October 2015. The World Forum on Local Economic Development is launched by UNDP and is held every two years. It aims to gather experts, politicians, administrators, researchers, citizens, students around the issue...