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Dénia, among the 210 Spanish cities that participate in the Barcelona Forum on Food Policy

22 October 2021 - 15: 13

Dénia has participated this week in the Barcelona Forum called by the Milan Pact. This Food Policy pact is signed by 210 cities, including Dénia.

The director of the Office of Innovation and Creativity, Floren Terrades, has followed the work and has participated in workshops of the different sessions, as well as the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, has participated in the meeting of mayors and has had the opportunity to meet with the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, and the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó.

The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragility of the current food system and, at the same time, has opened a window to accelerate its transformation towards more resilient and sustainable systems.

The objective of the Barcelona Forum has been to reflect on the experiences lived in cities and to propose future actions as a motor for cultural, social and economic changes. In addition to the cities, representatives of international institutions, NGOs, groups and activists against climate change from different parts of the world have participated in the meeting.

The representation of Dénia has participated in sessions closely related to the impacts of food policies on the life of cities, the new regulatory frameworks of European and international institutions and the ways to combat and prevent the effects of climate change. He has also learned about experiences from other cities and has attended lectures given by prominent and influential personalities from different fields and sectors of the agri-food systems, such as the founder and ideologist of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini.

During the days of the Forum, Dénia has established contacts with other cities, institutions and organizations to start lines of collaboration in different fields. In Barcelona there have been representatives who, like Dénia, are part of the Unesco Creative Cities network, and links have been strengthened with the World Center for Sustainable Food (CEMAS), integrated into the FAO.

The Barcelona Forum has focused on the important role that cities play in facing, from the front line, the current global challenges derived from health, social, climatic and ecological emergencies. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, where 70% of the food produced in the world is consumed. They are, therefore, cities, the scene where creative measures must be applied to accelerate the urgent and necessary transition towards healthier, more resilient, just and sustainable food systems that can satisfy the basic needs of future generations.

The conference has been closed by the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón. The conclusions and proposals arising from the Barcelona conference will be transferred to the next Climate Summit that the United Nations has convened for the first half of November in the city of Glasgow.

1 Comment
  1. Ignacio says:

    Now they want to politicize food? What is that of Food Policy? All this forum, what is it really for? To create healthier, more resilient, fair and sustainable food systems? What a pantomime. Cities do not produce food so they need to be supplied every day. In order to minimize the impact of transport, the supply products would have to be produced as close to the city as possible and that is impossible in real cities like Barcelona. Dena is different in being a small semi-rural town surrounded by farm fields. So stop dreaming because I doubt very much that you intend to surround cities like Barcelona or Madrid with fields of cultivation and limit the importation of foreign food products. This forum is useless but we all pay for it.


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