The ‘Territorialized Food Systems’ 2022 call is open

Until 19 May, the new edition of our ‘Territorialised Food Systems’ call seeks projects that design, implement and/or coordinate public food policies that accelerate the transition to sustainable food. With it, we want to identify, accelerate and consolidate local food initiatives, of any degree of maturity, aimed at relocating the different economic and social activities linked to food systems, with special emphasis on participatory processes to guarantee real and effective involvement of citizens in decision-making.

Sustainable food as a driver of transformation

Facilitating and accelerating the transition to sustainable food systems is a key challenge for the Foundation and one of the axes that have articulated our work since its inception. We are aware of the enormous impact of decisions about our food on the current ecosystem as a whole, but also of its extraordinary and valuable potential as a transformative element of society and as a driver of change.

From our Sustainable Food line we work in this way, conceiving sustainable food as a cross-cutting issue to many other challenges and problems of our time – as it is at the crossroads of multiple imbalances such as the loss of biodiversity, climate change and even social inequalities – and Territorialised Agri-Food Systems, agricultural self-employment and small enterprises as a model that is urgent to promote for the transition Food.

With the ‘Territorialised Food Systems’ call we seek to support projects that share this vision of sustainable food as a driver of change to identify, accelerate and consolidate local Spanish food initiatives of any degree of maturity that are aimed at relocating the different economic and social activities linked to food systems.

In line with several of the Sustainable Development Goals, the publication of this call represents the continuation of the path that the Foundation has already materialised in different and complementary initiatives such as the report The path to agricultural employment in Territorialised Agri-food Systems, developed together with the Centre for Rural Studies and International Agriculture (CERAI). the Terralimenta program. LAGs in transition towards Territorialised Food Systems or the lessons learned in the Carasso Notebook Territorised Food Systems.

Projects by and for the field. Relocalizing Food Systems Processes through Local Food Policies

Aimed at projects that design, execute and/or coordinate public food policies, the call ‘Territorialised Food Systems for the transition to sustainable food’ seeks to identify, accelerate and consolidate local Spanish food initiatives of any degree of maturity that are aimed at relocating the different economic and social activities linked to food systems.

We are looking for initiatives designed by and for the territory in which they are applied, which involve all the agents involved, and are driven by an alliance between a non-profit entity or the social and solidarity economy and a public administration. In addition, other collaborating entities may also participate in coherence with the programme of activities proposed by the project.

The call is open to initiatives that, for example, promote the carrying out of diagnoses of the processes and activities integrated into the food systems of their territory, the development of more sustainable food strategies, the implementation of mechanisms for citizen participation in the processes of defining public policies, the implementation of actions for the execution of lines of the food strategy or the articulation of agents, departments or administrations involved in the implementation of the food strategy.

This edition also integrates collective catering as part of the design of public policies, also considering projects that propose support to public centers in the administrative procedures of public procurement, articulation of distribution to supply canteens with local and organic products or the definition and proposal of sustainable menus in community canteens.

Likewise, the projects that we hope to accompany through the ‘Territorialized Food Systems’ call must propose a lasting transformation in public practices in their territory for the transition to a sustainable food system, involving citizens in the processes and putting people at the center of the project to produce a positive and long-term impact on them.

All this without losing sight of something that is especially important to us: that the organizations that approach this call do so from a systemic vision of Sustainable Food, understanding this opportunity as a space for network building, for sharing resources and learning, to continue strengthening the fabric of sustainable food in our country and to get closer to it. more and more, towards that more sustainable, fair and better nourished future that we want.