Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Highlights
Production of a set of policy-oriented guidelines and set of recommendations based on: (a) current national and international evidence-based; (b) findings and inputs from all tasks and activities, especially WP7.2, WP7.3 and Task 7.3.3; (c) proposals to modify existing legislation; (d) feedback from stakeholders and policymakers.
Urban food policies have spread, especially in Europe, according to different paths, responding to the challenges that territories express with respect to their local food systems. Food policies intersect with urban agendas in multiple ways, and they have greatly developed in the last decades, with several cities joining important networks such as the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. However, in the absence of a national regulatory framework, the territories move in a scattered and sometimes inconsistent manner. The goal of healthy and sustainable diets should be supported by a national policy capable of connecting the various elements of food systems in a systematic and coordinated way. Against this backdrop, the Integrated National Food Policy (INFP) will support the transition through more sustainable food systems and the enhancement of the food environments, through the integration with existing relevant policies and strategies in the field of agriculture, circular economy, food waste and losses, rural development, logistics. The INFP will be developed coherently with the One Health approach, that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
Given that food systems are perpetually changing, a statistical tool will be developed in order to automatically and continuously provide a self-compiling analysis of the national agri-food system. This will allow the reformulation of the priorities based on the most recent data at disposal.
What is the common understanding of Healthy and Sustainable Diets? What are the conceptual frameworks which bring to policies promoting diets consistent with healthy habits and planetary boundaries?
The report “Policies for Healthy and Sustainable Diets” by CREA shed a light on these key questions for the OnFoods project, through a review of international, European and National (IT) documents.