Are you working on your city’s food systems*? Are you looking for inspiration and good practices?
Look no further. The Food Trails Handbook for Cities is a helpful, supportive source of information and inspiration describing the Food Trails project approach and collecting its learnings.
How do you know if the Food Trails experience can work for you? Use the Handbook’s QuickScan Lens for Replication (QSLR) tool. The QSLR’s building blocks can be used to replicate successful initiatives, to broaden the scale and impact of interventions, or to develop similar interventions in other places. The tools provided in the handbook can be used in any local government structure.
The handbook also provides information on replication methodologies and accessible tools, including stakeholder mapping, data collection, the theory of change, and peer learning activities. Implementing these can impact multiple points within the food system, and lead to its significant transformation.
Central to the handbook are the practical and inspiring examples of how the Food Trails cities addressed challenges around governance, sustainable diets & nutrition, social & economic equity, food production, food supply & distribution, and food waste. Many food system interventions deal with multiple categories simultaneously.
The handbook invites cities to think about how they can address numerous urban challenges through their food system interventions.
Finally, the handbook presents lessons learned and recommendations from partnering cities and researchers.
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*A food system is the network of all individuals and organisations involved in producing, processing, distributing and consuming food.
Food Trails is an EU Horizon 2020 project involving 11 cities, 3 universities, and 5 food organizations. Its goal is to promote more resilient, safe, fair, and diverse urban food systems through co-designed actions in Food 2030-led Living Labs, enabling the development of systemic urban food policies.
The Food Trails project has received fundings from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, under grant agreement n. 101000812.
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