Food Trails

With over 200 signatories, the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) has been the leading community in urban food policy knowledge sharing since launching in 2015. Now, the City of Milan is scaling up the transformation of food systems with the Food Trails project.

Food Trails, a four-year EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, brings together a consortium of 19 partners to enable the shared design of pilot activities in 11 cities across Europe. The pilots will create a body of evidence to support urban food policy developments in the 11 participating cities.

EAT is one of the partners implementing the project.

Launched on World Food Day 2020 (October 16), the project aims to make the farm-to-fork journey sustainable, empower communities, promote a zero-waste use of resources, support environmentally-friendly behaviour change, and ensure healthy and secure diets. These goals tie into the European Union’s Food 2030 work. The project works to translate the MUFPP’s commitment to integrated urban food policies into measurable and long-term progress towards sustainable food systems in Europe, involving 21 follower cities worldwide.

Cities are paying more attention to food policy and the farm-to-fork process, and global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are revealing the vulnerability of our food system. The time is right for cities to share insights, knowledge, and radical ideas to look at how we interact with our food in an urban setting.

For more information on how we work with cities, please visit our Cities page.

The FOOD TRAILS project has been funded by Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement n. 101000812. For more information, please visit: https://foodtrails.milanurbanfoodpolicypact.org/