2020 Call for Proposals: Territorialized Food Systems for the transition to sustainable food

We present the call that we are launching this year from our Sustainable Food line: “Territorialized Food Systems for the transition to sustainable food”.
You have from March 5 to June 10 to apply!

Since its creation in 2010, the Foundation has supported, through the Sustainable Food line, projects that accelerate the transition to more sustainable food systems. This call seeks to support projects that relocalize food systems processes through local food policies or collective catering initiatives.

When approached from a holistic perspective, food becomes a profound transformative element because it has an impact, at the same time, on the social, economic, environmental and health. This is demonstrated by numerous initiatives, throughout the state, with their daily work for years. Supporting and promoting these initiatives is what motivates us to open this call every two years.

The importance of sustainable food

We believe that sustainability in the food system encompasses four dimensions: environmental, economic, social justice and health for people and the planet. Food systems can not only contribute to achieving many of the sustainable development goals, they also have great potential to provide alternatives and proposals for climate change adaptation and mitigation, addressing the challenge of the climate emergency in a systemic and transformative way.

There is also a growing mobilisation of institutions and citizens around the Milan Pact or measures aimed at the development of territorialised food policies. From the Foundation, we have accompanied several of these initiatives in Spain since 2016. These address the relocation of the different processes of the food system (supply of local products to collective canteens or restaurants; local marketing of local products; involvement of economic agents and civil society to offer and consume local products, etc.). We place special emphasis on participatory processes to ensure real and effective involvement of the population in decision-making.

For this reason, this call aims to identify, accelerate and consolidate local Spanish food initiatives of any degree of maturity, aimed at relocating the different economic and social activities linked to food systems.

This call is open to projects that develop one of these modalities:

Modality 1: Territorialized Food Systems.

We are looking for initiatives that design, execute and/or coordinate public food policies that involve a diverse set of agents in the territory.

To present an initiative, an alliance is necessary between:

– At least one entity (non-profit organisation or belonging to the social and solidarity economy).
and
– At least one public administration (city council, metropolitan entity, provincial council, association or any other local entity listed in Article 3 of Law 7/1985, as well as local action groups, regional administrations, etc.).

Category 2: Collective Catering.

We are looking for initiatives that work with public centres to facilitate their transition towards a sustainable dining room model, through the definition, implementation or consolidation of processes that guarantee both a local supply of organic products and a sustainable diet, which guarantees the health of diners, in the short and long term.

To present an initiative, an alliance is necessary between:

– At least one entity (non-profit organisation or belonging to the social and solidarity economy)
and
– At least one public centre (hospital, educational centre, nursing home, university, etc.)

Other collaborating entities can participate in both modalities, in addition to those that make up the alliance that leads the project. It is important that both the selection of the alliance entities and the collaborating agents are consistent with the proposed programme of activities and the areas of action of the project.

You can consult the complete rules, here: