Interreg MED MADRE

| Subject: Agriculture, International Relations

Meeting to uptake policy recommendations to foster urban and periurban agriculutre

Attendants to the meeting

Urban and peri-urban agriculture is a key element to design sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean metropolitan areas, as well as a tool for territorial management, climate change mitigation, creation of jobs and economic opportunities, landscape protection, leisure and health services, among others.
Marseille hold last 1st June the international final event of the EU Interreg MED MADRE. The initiative has devoted the last 16 months to collect best practices and to discuss in a transnational and multi-stakeholder manner they key challenges confronted in 6 Mediterranean metropolis and agree on 8 policy recommendations regarding the most urgent issues to be addressed at a policy level.

MedCities Secretary General and head of AMB's International Relations Xavier Tiana, chaired the Round Table gathering elected representatives from the metropolitan areas involved in the project. One of the participants was the Deputy Mayor of  Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Barcelona Metropolitan Councilor, Gerard Segú. After a while, the Baix Llobregat Agrarian Park and technical representation of the Barcelona city council joined the meeting.

The event was the occasion to present key project results —thematic White Papers, the Policy Paper, best practice catalogue and digital platform— and resulted on the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding endorsing MADRE Policy Recommendations and committing to continue working in collaboration.

MedCities and AMB are currently engaged on streamlining MADRE recommendations through an AMB vision and a road map identifying priority metropolitan agriculture projects to be led by the AMB in the short and medium term.

About the MADRE project

MADRE is a capitalization project co-financed by the Interreg Mediterranean programme, which aims to change the metropolitan food supply model by capitalising on existing good practices, by empowering the different stakeholders in metropolitan and peri-urban agriculture, and by initiating a dynamic of transnational cooperation in the MED regions.

MADRE is carried out from February 2017 to July 2018 with a total budget of € 1.17, co-financed € 0.99 by the Interreg MED Programme. The multidisciplinary partnership from 5 countries, includes partners each representing a flagship metropolitan area: AVITEM (Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories – project coordinator), ANIMA Investment Network (Marseille, France), CIHEAM-IAMM - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (France), Metropolitan City of Bologna (Italy), MedCities (Barcelona, Spain), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Agricultural University of Tirana (Albania).

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Villa Valmer, Marseille