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Créée dans les années 1970 pour répondre à des enjeux d’urbanisme, la régie agricole de Toulouse s’est transformée jusqu’à prendre un virage clair en 2020 : soutenir la souveraineté alimentaire de la ville. Agriculture 100 % bio, circuits courts, production de pain pour la restauration scolaire, filière viticole structurée… À travers le Domaine de Candie et ses 250 hectares de terres agricoles intra-muros, la métropole a pour objectif d’alimenter les 35 000 repas municipaux journaliers. Le tout, en faisant rayonner le “bien manger” auprès des habitants et des restaurateurs.

La métropole de Lyon est entrée au capital de la « dernière ferme de Lyon » menacée de disparition sous l’effet de la pression foncière. En devenant actionnaire de cette coopérative agricole, la collectivité entend pérenniser l’activité de l’exploitation.

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

In the quest for sustainability within our food systems, changing eating habits has become a critical goal. While various governance strategies have been proposed to facilitate this shift, their effectiveness can vary widely.

From war zones to inner-city London, a new generation of land defenders are digging in – reclaiming soil, space and power through community gardens and regenerative action
There is power in a garden. There is power in the land.
And across the world, from Ukraine to Zambia to south London, gardens are springing up and blossoming in some of the most unlikely places. They’re doing so thanks to a rising wave of land defenders: people reclaiming the right to grow healthy food for themselves and their communities, in a world that is increasingly squeezing that into the margins.

The Vatican's first-ever vocational school aims to offer on-site training in sustainable gardening, organic winemaking, and olive harvesting.
The Vatican is inaugurating an ambitious educational centre inspired by Pope Francis’ ecological legacy. It is a 55-acre utopian experiment in sustainable farming, vocational training and environmental schooling for kids and CEOs alike on the grounds of the papal estate on Lake Albano.

Europe’s food system is failing the very people it’s meant to serve, as decades of trade-driven, industrial agriculture have left local farms disappearing, biodiversity declining, and citizens paying hidden social and environmental costs. Far from delivering true food security, this fragile model depends on distant supply chains and cheap imports often produced under standards Europe itself wouldn’t accept.

La ville de Paris favorise l’installation d’agriculteurs urbains pour renforcer sa production agricole et reconnecter ses habitants au vivant. Elle a créé, en 2015, l’appel à projets «Parisculteurs» pour mettre à disposition des agriculteurs urbains professionnels du foncier agricole aménagé à faible coût. Elle sélectionne les terrains avec un cahier des charges strict et choisit les lauréats en évaluant leur modèle économique et agricole.

With many Europeans facing a cost-of-living crisis, access to healthy food options is dwindling. At a recent policy breakfast in the European Parliament, MEPs, and organizations representing restaurants, retailers and consumers exchanged best practices for facilitating access to decent and healthy food while reducing waste

On a blue-skied summer morning, Place Pasteur in the historic center of Besançon is abuzz with colorful market stalls selling trinkets and antiques. But it’s also here that residents bring a different kind of valuable good every weekday, to give away for free.

Nikos Chatzilias spends his days tending to buzzing bee colonies with a unique view out over the rooftops of Greece’s capital.

He is among the dozens of Athenians who have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature and enjoy honey flavored by each neighborhood’s local plants and flowers.

A new study reveals that Sweden has a high potential to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 through changes in its food system. Key strategies include adjusting diets, phasing out fossil fuels across the food chain and reducing food waste. Together, they can help us stay within the planetary boundary for climate and improve people’s health.

Social and environmental movements from around the world gather at the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum this week, as the need for food sovereignty could not be more urgent.
Environmental injustice and climate chaos accelerate daily, driven by a global neoliberal economic structure rooted in patriarchy and colonialism.
Agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations deepen hunger, destroy biodiversity, displace peoples and poison communities - all while profiting from the crisis they created.

The Basque Country, committed to sustainability, has embraced this cause with the “Soil Protection Strategy Euskadi 2030”. This comprehensive protection initiative recognises the complexity of the issue and highlights how a healthy soil is a diverse and multifunctional ecosystem crucial to achieving climate neutrality, a circular and clean economy, to reverse biodiversity loss, provide healthy food, safeguard human health and tackle desertification and soil degradation.

À Lagraulet-du-Gers, l’équipe municipale sert des repas 100 % bio aux enfants de l’école du village avec des légumes produits par ses soins et étendra le service à quatre communes d’ici la rentrée prochaine.

The project is a direct response to the ever-pressing global need to tackle the climate crisis through the lens of culture: it is born from the conviction that culture, especially in the form of cinema, has the power to engage with one of the most critical challenges of our time: environmental sustainability.