LUPPA’s next bimonthly meeting will be held on July 13, starting at 10 a.m. (Brasília time), and we will use this moment to continue the discussion we began at the May meeting on the challenges, demands and agendas that can be taken, collectively, to the major national and international events of 2022.
These are: COP 27 in Egypt (“COP” is the name given to the international Climate Change conference held every year in November, which since 2020 has brought the centrality of food systems to the climate change agenda); the global gathering of the cities that have signed the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, which this year will take place in the city of Rio de Janeiro in October; and, of course, the state and national elections, also in October.
Our proposal is to start from the general challenges mapped in our workshops in order to discuss what state, national and international community actions are needed so that municipalities can deliver the solutions they seek for their local challenges. We will also draw on the experience of how each city’s anchor project has evolved to share these findings: common challenges and possible collective demands, of a technical and public policy nature, that can be taken to the state and federal governments.
To open the meeting we will welcome Nicole Pita, project manager at IPES-Food, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, who will talk about the movement around the Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration and how cities and subnational governments have been positioning themselves internationally on this important intersection of agendas; Camila Pontual, Deputy Coordinator of International Relations and Cooperation at the City of Rio de Janeiro, who will speak about the organization of the Milan Pact Global Forum on Urban Food Policy in Rio de Janeiro; and Darklane Rodrigues, Undersecretary for Food and Nutrition Security of Belo Horizonte, who will give a brief introduction to the Milan Pact, its network of signatories, the reason for the annual gathering and the theme that will guide this October’s gathering.
The meeting will also be an opportunity for cities that have not yet been able to finalize their project to find inspiration for developing this important tool for guiding the priority actions to be implemented in each municipality.
So that our discussion reflects the diversity of views of our participating cities, we would like to count on the presence of representatives of the city government and civil society from every city – after all, it is through joint work that we can find the strength to build healthy, sustainable and fair food systems for all.
