Policy Brief #4

Policy Brief #4 (D3.5) lunges at bottom-up and citizen-guided initiatives. The first objective of the document is to provide some indications on the importance of identifying, promoting and supporting these initiatives to accompany the transition of city-region food systems (CRFS), providing keys and useful examples for their possible scaling up.
The second objective is to raise awareness of emerging initiatives within the cities and Labs of the CITIES2030 partners. We will see that cities and CRFS Labs play a central role in recognising and supporting these initiatives, as they are often fragile and encounter numerous difficulties on their way. Therefore, being able to root them in situated food ecosystems and making them endure is crucial to bringing about real change in the dominant food regime.
CITIES partners were therefore invited to contribute to this policy brief by indicating ongoing innovations that are particularly relevant in their city region and are particularly representative. Partners were asked to identify
exemplary experiments that can also serve as inspiration or models for other cities and CRFS Labs in Europe