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    • Milan Urban Food Policy



      Proponent

      EStà - Economia e Sostenibilità

      www.foodcities.org



      Independent research center that believes in a robust, systematic approach to sustainability. It works together with government agencies, research centres, economic groups, and actors at local, national and international level about the relation between Food and Cities.



      Main responsible entity

      Municipality of Milan T

      The second city of Italy with 1,3 Millions of inhabitants (4 Millions in the metropolitan area) and its economical hub. Milano is in the center of a Padana food valley and is surrounded by the biggest agricultural park in Europe.

      Cariplo Foundation

      Private, grant-making philanthropic foundation, with a banking origin, that plays a fundamental role to support social, cultural, environmental and research activities in Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) for sustainable development.



      Date / Timeframe

      2014-ongoing



      Funding source

      Cariplo Foundation and Milan Municipality

      Location

      Italy, Milan



      Background/Context

      In 2011 the Municipality, together with 31 urban farms has defined the first Italian urban Agricultural District, in 2015 Milan has hosted EXPO2015 on the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" with 137 countries from each part of the world.



      Focus/Objectives

      Strategic approach for Milan food system planning with a Food Policy that adopts a long term vision, promoting multi-actor processes for facilitating the assumption of joint responsibility for sustainable and resilient urban food system transition.



      Key characteristics of the experience/process

      - Participatory analysis with the engagement of several researchers that have already investigated parts of food system from different disciplines.

      - Public consultation with municipal officers, citizens, innovators, start-uppers, activists, civil society organizations, private sector, academics.

      - Formalization of a document of priorities and guidelines that was voted by the City Council



      Key actors involved and their role

      Municipal officers: connection with other policies and programs.

      Academics: analysis and interpretation of different part of food system.

      Innovators: individuation of most innovative food trend.

      Activists of civil society organizations: connection with other CSOs projects.

      Private sector: making alliance in the private element of food system.



      Key changes observed with regards to food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture and food systems

      Access to healthy food, sustainable food system, oriented culture conscious consumption, reduction of food waste, improved agrifood research, “urban diplomacy” through the promotion of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact.



      Challenges faced

      Urban food system planning as driver of sustainable, resilient and fairy city.



      Lessons/Key messages

      Food planning has to be implemented in ordinary policies of local authorities.



      Need to an integrate a direction room for manage and integrate different department of the institution.



      Need to represent and to integrate all the actors of the food system in order to boost a sustainable change through a public discussion of the new needs and solutions

    • Milan Metropolitan Food Council

      Proponent  

      EStà - Economia e Sostenibilità

      www.foodcities.org

      Independent research center that believes in a robust, systematic approach to sustainability. It works together with government agencies, research centres, economic groups, and actors at local, national and international level about the relation between Food and Cities. 

      Main responsible entity

      • Municipality of Milan: the second city of Italy with 1,3 Millions of inhabitants (4 Millions in the metropolitan area) and its economical hub. Milano is in the center of a Padana food valley and is surrounded by the biggest agricultural park in Europe.
      • Cariplo Foundation: private, grant-making philanthropic foundation, with a banking origin, that plays a fundamental role to support social, cultural, environmental and research activities in Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) for sustainable development.

      Date/Timeframe

      2015-ongoing

      Funding source

      Cariplo Foundation and Milan Municipality 

      Location 

      Italy, Milan

      Background/Context

      • The metropolitan area is now governed by a new institution called “Metropolitan City” (before it was a Province), and this new institutional framework provides a coordination between the Municipality of Milan and the other 134 municipalities of the metropolitan area.
      • In 1990 the Province created the first Italian peri-urban agricultural park (Parco Agricolo Sud Milano) on an area of 61 municipalities on the boundaries of Milan that cover over of 47.000 hectares managed by 1400 farms. 
      • In 2007 the Province has set up a preliminary policy framework for the promotion of a local food system, focusing on short chains between rural and urban areas. 
      • In 2015 the City Council of the Milan Municipality has adopted the Milan Food Policy and, in this framework, it will develop a Metropolitan Food Council. 

      Focus/Objectives

      Developing a new democratic arena with focus on Metropolitan Food System with urban politicians, municipal officers, formal and informal representatives of farmers, social innovators, start-uppers, activists, civil society organizations, private sector, academics.

      Key characteristics of the experience/process

      Definition of new institutional space for debating new complex issues by involving actors that are not represented in the already consolidate institutions to discuss on food issues in a systemic way. 

      Key actors involved and their role

      • Municipal officers: connection with other policies and programs.
      • Farmers and private sector: representation of new needs, facilitation of new aggregation on a territorial bases.
      • Innovators: individuation of most innovative food trend and incubation of new economic activities.
      • Activists of civil society organizations: connection with other CSOs projects, education.
      • Academics: analysis and interpretation of different part of food system.

      Key changes observed with regards to food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture and food systems

      Activation of new dialogue among different actors of Milan food system for managing different issues that are directly and indirectly related with food security in a sustainable perspective at metropolitan scale.

      Challenges faced 

      Food democracy, role of innovative farmers civil society in food system planning.

      Lessons/Key messages

      • Importance of the connection between different existing institutions (ex. Municipal Council, Mayoral Board, Metropolitan Council) and new institutions that are specifically dedicated to the governance of food system.
      • Role of informal coalitions of actors.
      • Space for representing interests and needs in a right to food perspective.

         

    • Martesana Land Bank for sustainable land tenure

      Proponent  

      EStà - Economia e Sostenibilità

      www.foodcities.org

      Independent non profit research center that believes in a robust, systematic approach to sustainability. It works together with government agencies, research centres, economic groups, and actors at local, national and international level about the relations between Food and Cities. 

      Main responsible entity

      Martesana Consortium of Local Authorities of Metropolitan Milan Area

      • 12 Municipalities in the peri-urban area of Milan located along a historical artificial water channel called Martesana that collect the water from a natural river to the centre of the city of Milan.  The partnership toward the Land Bank involves also CSOs, farmers, social cooperatives, universities, as well as independent research centres for policy design support.
      • Cariplo Foundation: private, grant-making philanthropic foundation, with a banking origin, that plays a fundamental role to support social, cultural, environmental and research activities in Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) for sustainable development.

      Date/Timeframe

      2016-2017

      Funding source

      Cariplo Foundation and Local Authorities 

      Location 

      Italy, around Milan

      Background/Context

      The Martesana context was the peri-urban area that was characterized by big informatics and telecommunication companies and multinational corporations that, after the emergence of the economic crisis have closed their activities, causing a depression of the local economy.   

      In this crisis situations some local authorities have develop a process for sharing a common vision of the future and new activism for defining new institutional competences.  

      Focus/Objectives

      New stewardship for land planning and management as a way to combine environmental stewardship and rural job creation in a fragile context.

      Key characteristics of the experience/process

      How manage the issues of land tenure in a fragmented periurban context from an agroecological and property point of view.

      Key actors involved and their role

      • Local Authorities, as decision maker institutions for land use planning and as property of several agricultural land.
      • Cooperatives of farmers, as producers actors interested in new innovative opportunities for reinforcing their members.
      • Grassroots organizations of civil society, as consumer actors interesting in local food system.
      • Young people, interested to become farmer but without being land owners for starting and implementing their entrepreneurial ideas.
      • Academics and independent research centers for analysis and interpretation of land policy as part of food system.

      Key changes observed with regards to food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture and food systems

      • Local Authorities are making available public lands for supporting the creations of new jobs connected to the local food system. 
      • Creation of an innovative local school for agricultural activism with entrepreneurial skills able to manage the land and soil with agro-ecological approach.

      Challenges faced 

      Land tenure, urbanization and rural transformation in the alert of biodiversity loose with agro-ecological approach.

      Lessons/Key messages

      • Facilitation activities for making connections among different kind of actors thata are involved in the local food system.
      • Role of financial actors for design new policy of land tenure in a kind of “bank”.
      • Connection between land planning and rural polities for land tenure.