The Food System in Milan Five Priorities for a Sustainable Development the City of Milan

EDUCATIO N SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH FIGHTING WASTE ACCESS The Food System in Milan Five priorities for a sustainable development The City of Milan Milan Vice Major in charge of Food Policy Anna Scavuzzo Food Policy Office of the municipality of Milan Andrea Magarini, Elisa Porreca Fondazione Cariplo Head of Science and Research Area Carlo Mango Scientific Research and Technology Transfer Area Valentina Amorese, Silvia Pigozzi Essays by Laura Anzideo, Social and Human Services Area Valeria Garibaldi, Environment Area Working group EStà - Economia e Sostenibilità Scientific director Andrea Calori Work group coordination Francesca Federici Research and texts Guido Agnelli, Andrea Calori, Chiara Demaldè, Camilla De Nardi, Chiara Ducoli, Francesca Federici, Giuseppe Galli, Ettore Gualandi, Andrea Magarini,Marta Maggi, Alessandro Maggioni, Marco Marangoni, Alessia Marazzi, Loris Mazzagatti, Mario Paris, Enrico Pastori, Giacomo Petitti, Alice Rossi, Cécil Sillig. Experimentation FAO-RUAF indicators and SDGs, metadata system Francesca Federici, Marta Maggi, Alessandro Musetta Graphic design, layout, maps and infographic, icons of the food system and the food policy priorities Marco Marangoni, Alessandro Musetta, Giulia Tagliente Other icons utilized for the creation of the infographics draw on the creative commons of the Noun Project Date of publication December 2018 Creative Commons license ISBN 9788894200379 The Food System in Milan Five priorities for a sustainable development Index 0 Shared governance for a 7 multifaceted food system The European dimension in Milan’s Food Policy 13 Ensure healthy food 19 and water for all citizens Promote the sustainability of the food system 39 69 Promote food education Fighting against food waste 85 Support the scientific research 103 in agrifood sectors Milan Food Policy’s contribution to the sustainable development goals 117 4 Bibliography A Food Policy is an institutional initiative to act, with a vision and a systemic approach, on the components of the food system of a city: production, processing, logistics, distribution, consumption and waste. Based on this approach, starting in 2014, the City of Milan and the Cariplo Foundation decided to foster a number of proposals for the city’s political agenda on food and nutrition issues. The two Institutions jointly launched a study of the urban and metropolitan food system that involved many stakeholders and citizens in a process of public consultations that led to the drafting of several proposals, which were submitted back to the attention of the City of Milan. The City Council in October 2015 eventually approved the document containing the Milan’s Food Policy. The Milan Charter (“Carta di Milano”) and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact became the legacy of the 2015 Expo event: the Charter has been signed by millions of citizens and the Pact by over one hundred cities around the world (now over 200). Such a level of participation sanctioned the fundamental role of citizens and cities, their concrete contribution to the food policies and the ability to translate each food policy into daily actions, implemented by all citizens. The Milan’s Food Policy is composed by five priorities: ensure healthy food and water for all citizens; promote the sustainability of the food system; promote food education; fight against food waste; support scientific agri-food research. Over the following years, the City of Milan and the Cariplo Foundation have maintained their 2015 commitments, evolving from an experimental and temporary project to a made-to-last and permanent political pillar. The Food Policy has made it possible to launch several structural initiatives and pilot projects, all coordinated by a new institutional body denominated Food Policy Office. The report that you are about to read represents the significant progress of the research activity started in 2014 by the EStà research center and will provide you with an in-depth analysis of the city’s food system. The report spans across all areas of intervention within the Municipality and will help all the players - the City of Milan, the Universities, the local communities and the private sector - to share with us the path to make this city more sustainable, inclusive and attractive. We hope you will enjoy reading this report! Anna Scavuzzo Carlo Mango Milan Vice Major in charge of Head of Science and Research Area, Food Policy Fondazione Cariplo Shared governance for a multifaceded food system Shared governance for a multifaceted food system Every city routinely seeks to exercise an influence on various components of its food system through policies and actions in the sector, in accordance with its specific institutional expertise and political aims. The main innovation in urban policies on food lies in the connection, integration and direction of these actions in order both to make them more effective and explain them more clearly and to assess whether they are attaining the objectives of sustainability, resilience, equity and inclusivity. It follows that one of the most significant challenges for the characterization and implementation of the Food Policy is the definition of forms of governance capable of facilitating the shift from generally circumscribed actions toward more strategic approaches. The method that is being tried out in Milan is progressively integra- ting the work of the various boards of management, the municipal corporations and urban stakeholders (horizontal integration), while acting at the same time on the connections with the metropolitan, regional and European authorities (vertical integration). These two directions of integration highlight the main ways in which the joint responsibility for the processes that make up Milan’s Food Policy are expressed and emphasize the fact that it is not a “project”— understood in the sense of a thematic initiative entrusted to a sector—but primarily a complex process of governance that is going to involve, in the future, every component of the administration and all the stakeholders in the city. The principal components of governance of the Food Policy inside and outside the City of Milan can be summed up as follows: ● institutional coordination in the mayor’s cabinet through de- legation to the deputy mayor and the setting up of a Board of Interdepartmental Coordination; ● technical support for coordination provided by the Food Po- licy Office; 9 Five Priorities for a sustainable development ● external support through the memorandum of understan- ding with Fondazione Cariplo and the scientific and technical support of EStà; ● inclusion of other Milanese stakeholders in the Metropolitan Food Council (in course of organization); ● monitoring system (in course of organization) for analysis and evaluation of the activities of the Food Policy and the dyna- mics of the system. Institutional coordination in the mayor’s cabinet When work started on defining the Food Policy for Milan, in 2014, the political and institutional responsibilities for the entire process were entrusted to the mayor’s cabinet. The aim was to emphasize from the outset the fact that the Food Policy is a process involving all the components of the city’s government, with overall responsibility assigned to the mayor. In March 2017 this responsibility was transferred to the deputy mayor to underline the transverse character of the process. Above and beyond the sectorial responsibilities assigned to her, the deputy mayor assists the mayor in his role of ensuring intersectoral cohesion, a role that is exercised through a team set up within the mayor’s cabinet, guaranteeing in this way an adequate management of all five priorities voted by the council. A comparison with other European cities reveals that Milan is the only one to have adopted a political and institutional responsibility of this kind in such a clear way. In other cities the predomi- nant approach has been to place food policy in the hands of the councilors for the environment or health, acting by and large in those areas of competence. This assignment of limited institutional responsibilities has essentially been adopted even where food policies are based on principles or aim at objectives that are of a more general character. In Milan’s case, however, the deputy mayor’s function is one of 10 Shared governance for a multifaceded food system connection and coordination, and thus with no decision-making powers over individual sectors, which are instead assigned to a Bo- ard of Interdepartmental Coordination, set up by Executive Board Resolution 1041 of May 2016, on which sit the councilors with responsibility for the Environment, Budget, Urban Economy, Educa- tion, Social Policies and City Planning. The board is chaired by the deputy mayor and is convened in va- riable configurations to respond to different thematic needs and to opportune or necessary horizontal and vertical integrations. Technical support for coordination To ensure the effectiveness of decisions on food policy, the City of Milan has set up the Food Policy Office within the mayor’s cabinet, which works under the direct supervision of the deputy mayor and in conjunction with all the council directorates, public corporations, stakeholders in the city and other levels of metropolitan and regional government. The staff of the Food Policy Office work fulltime on the technical coordination of the various actions under way. The office also per- forms the function of an antenna for the city with respect to topics linked to food, getting

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