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Creating sustainable urban food environments
FoodCLIC strengthens urban food environments in European and African city-regions by linking science, policy, and society and real world interventions
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2023 - 2027
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FoodCLIC is a Horizon Europe project that strengthens urban food environments by connecting science, policy, and society across eight European city-regions. The project promotes inclusive food governance and the implementation of real-world interventions to improve access to healthy, just, and sustainable food through mobilising and establishing food policy councils. By fostering collaboration across sectors and disciplines, FoodCLIC drives systemic change in how cities understand and transform their food environments.
ICLEI leads the project’s broadening strategy, extending its reach to five additional European city-regions and three African city-regions—Ebolowa (Cameroon), Fort Portal (Uganda), and eThekwini (South Africa)—with activities in Africa coordinated by ICLEI Africa. In these cities, the focus is on developing context-specific food strategies and establishing multi-actor, multi-departmental governance mechanisms. By supporting cross-sectoral collaboration and embedding food systems thinking into local decision-making, ICLEI Africa ensures African cities play an active role in shaping just, sustainable, and resilient urban food futures—while enriching FoodCLIC’s global learning.
FoodCLIC is a Horizon Europe project that strengthens urban food environments by connecting science, policy, and society across eight European city-regions. The project promotes inclusive food governance and the implementation of real-world interventions to improve access to healthy, just, and sustainable food through mobilising and establishing food policy councils. By fostering collaboration across sectors and disciplines, FoodCLIC drives systemic change in how cities understand and transform their food environments.
ICLEI leads the project’s broadening strategy, extending its reach to five additional European city-regions and three African city-regions—Ebolowa (Cameroon), Fort Portal (Uganda), and eThekwini (South Africa)—with activities in Africa coordinated by ICLEI Africa. In these cities, the focus is on developing context-specific food strategies and establishing multi-actor, multi-departmental governance mechanisms. By supporting cross-sectoral collaboration and embedding food systems thinking into local decision-making, ICLEI Africa ensures African cities play an active role in shaping just, sustainable, and resilient urban food futures—while enriching FoodCLIC’s global learning.
Project aims
- Improve urban food environments
- Strengthen inclusive food governance
- Bridge science, policy, and society
- Test real-world interventions
- Enable peer learning – through city-to-city exchanges across Europe and Africa
- Expand impact – by localising solutions in additional cities through the broadening strategy.
- Improve urban food environments
- Strengthen inclusive food governance
- Bridge science, policy, and society
- Test real-world interventions
- Enable peer learning – through city-to-city exchanges across Europe and Africa
- Expand impact – by localising solutions in additional cities through the broadening strategy.
FoodCLIC is transforming urban food environments by connecting science, policy, and society to improve food governance, implement real-world interventions, and foster city-to-city learning—aiming to provide healthy, sustainable, affordable, and attractive food for all people, while expanding impact through a broadening strategy across European and African city-regions.
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Ivan Pauw
Professional Officer: Urban Systems
The project team
Creating sustainable urban food environments team
Ivan Pauw
Professional Officer: Urban Systems
Tashi Piprek
Professional Officer: Urban Systems
Tashi holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Development from the Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch. This is complemented by over 6 years of hands-on experience in urban agriculture and environmental education initiatives across Cape Town and its environs. She has a steadfast dedication to more equitable and resilient systems in anticipation of the increasingly difficult urban challenges we are facing. She currently works at ICLEI Africa on various projects, as well as coordinating the AfriFOODlinks Youth Ambassadorship program.
