Sustainable Food Citizen Week

 

Video resum de la Setmana Ciutadana de l'Alimentació Sostenible 2021

The activities of the Sustainable Food Citizen Week

Sustainable Food Citizen Week provides an opportunity to understand the relationship between food habits and cross-cutting aspects such as the climate emergency, local economic development, culture, politics, social rights and health. A week dedicated to citizens, in which you will achieve knowledge, reflection and debate about the main issues of the following activities.

 

 

Gastronomic heritage

Waste vs Good use

Urban rurality and biodiversity

Ecological footprint

Proximity

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Gastronomic heritage

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  • Opening of the temporary exhibition “Feeding Barcelona, city, supply and health"
    15th October 18.30h
    Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), Saló del Tinell
    Talk

    Feeding the population has always been a concern for cities. It has been a decisive factor in their relationship with surrounding territories, in the centuries-long evolution of technologies for obtaining food produce and in the conditions under which men and women have been able to feed themselves and stay alive. 

    From the outset, one of the main tasks of the Consell de Cent, the Barcelona municipal institution created in 1249, was to guarantee food supplies and ensure food safety. Since then, the city's government has strived to guarantee good quality food supplies, because it has been directly responsible for them, provided support in doing so or has sought alternatives to the insufficient actions of other authorities.  

    The municipal government's intervention continues today, with Mercabarna, Barcelona and the Western Mediterranean's great food store, and the city's network of municipal markets. This long history of decisive municipal involvement in the food supply chain is historically unique to Barcelona, with no similar situation in most other European cities.   
    The exhibition is open from 15 October 2021 to 15 October 2022.  

  • Presentation of the temporary exhibition “Feeding Barcelona, city, supply and health"
    16th October - 11.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    Presentation of the exhibition “Feeding Barcelona, city, supply and health”, organised by the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA).

    One area of research and dissemination for the MUHBA in recent years has centred on the study of food and people’s health. The “Feeding Barcelona” project has paid particular attention to the institutions and policies which have made it possible to meet the basic life needs of people throughout history, and, as a consequence, the sustainable existence of the city itself. 
     

  • The medieval roots of Catalan gastronomic heritage
    October 16th - 11.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    During the 14th and 15th centuries, Catalan cooking achieved a level of excellence that was internationally acknowledged. Its aims were to obtain complex flavours through combining fine seasonings, to mask the natural qualities of the food and create sophisticated and attractive dishes. The conquest of Naples by Alfonso the Magnanimous and popes Calixtus III and Alexander VI, both from the Borja family, contributed to increased contact with Italy, from where its fame spread to the rest of Western Europe. Italian creations were praised by the expert gourmets of the day and were gathered across four cookery books: Llibre de Sent Soví [The Book of Saint Sovin], Llibre d’aparellar de menja [Book of Food Pairings], Llibre de totes maneres de potatges [Book of all Kinds of Stews] and Llibre del coc [Book of the Cook].

Waste vs Good use

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  • A la cuina, #jonollenço! #AllFoodMatters
    ‘A la cuina, #jonollenço!’ #AllFoodMatters. Better food use and cooking
    October 22nd - 18.00 H
    Betevé broadcasting
    Televised cooking workshop

    A chef and an expert in better food use provide advice and useful tips for making the best use of food in cooking. Using the preparation of various recipes as a common thread, the programme introduces concepts that show the importance of sustainable, healthy food and ideas that help to prevent food waste, through everyday consumer and cooking habits.

Urban rurality and biodiversity

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  • Flors i abelles. La vida en joc
    Flowers and bees. Life on the line
    October 16 at 13:40 h
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Talk

    Bees are one of the most important, and unknown, groups of pollinators. The aim of this talk is to showcase the life of bees, and also serve as an opportunity to understand the role that these insects play, together with the hosts, the plants, in the ecological balance of the planet. The reality is that humanity is facing a disturbing problem: the decline of bees. It is a subject that is being talked about more and more, and that we cannot overlook, as the Museum of Natural Sciences. The causes are numerous, and closely linked to the long litany of changes to the environment prompted by human activity. Now is the time for us to understand what we have done wrong and prepare a guide of best practices that can be used to recover the biodiversity that has been lost.

  • Mandala d’agricultura urbana
    Urban agriculture mandala
    October 16th - 16.30 H
    Plaça Reial
    Talk

    The dynamics of this activity involve a mandala. We draw conclusions on how urban agriculture has fared this year, where we have made progress and where not, where we are headed and the importance of agriculture within the city, with the participation of various people connected to urban agriculture and others who will help us to connect with our bodies.
    This is an open, participative activity where the audience can contribute their wishes and materials to the mandala. Ritual for closing and opening the year, as it has been a busy one in urban agriculture.

     

  • Cinturó agrari metropolità: quan la ciutat es fa responsable del que menja
    Metropolitan agricultural belt: when the city takes responsibility for what it eats
    October 16th - 17.30 H
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Round table

    The Metropolitan agricultural belt is the on-site embodiment of the need (exacerbated by climate change and the biodiversity crisis) for healthy, wholesome and sustainable local supplies. It starts in the Metropolitan Area and includes the entire Metropolitan Region: it has a bottom-up structure, based on the view, already accepted by some city councils, that we need to preserve or create an agricultural belt around every municipality. We are therefore talking about a belt of belts.

    To make this possible, the two main challenges we face are access to production resources and guaranteed fair prices. And in addition to this demand for “minimum prices for food and maximum prices for land”, there is the vital importance of adopting large-scale healthy, mitigating and regenerative agronomic practices. This means that financial aid for farmers has to involve cross compliance, but also has to be available to everyone, not just the big producers.

     

Ecological footprint

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  • Food low in CO2-eq emissions. The life cycle of food and its carbon footprint
    October 17th - 13.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    Talk looking at all the most common stages of the life cycle of our food. From the farm to the table, we’ll be pondering the carbon footprint of agriculture, packaging, logistics, cooking, organic waste etc. The overall goal is to provide information for deciding on food which has a lower impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. The session will also stress the contradictions in environmental communication for consumers.  

  • Dialogue between Vandana Shiva and Esther Vivas
    17th October 13.30 h
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    What are the impacts of our food system on our planet? How does this affect the peasantry, our territory and the communities of the global south? What role does the food industry play? What can we do as consumers? What is the role and situation of women, who have traditionally fed the world? On all these issues, we offer you an exciting dialogue with Vandana Shiva (Indian climate activist, graduate in physics, philosopher, ecologist, feminist and author of more than twenty books and 300 articles in the world's most prestigious scientific journals) and Esther Vivas ( activist, researcher in social movements and agricultural and food policies, degree in journalism and diploma in higher studies in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona).

  • Conflictes socioambientals del sistema alimentari a Catalunya
    Socio-environmental conflicts surrounding the food system in Catalonia
    October 17th - 17.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Round table

    The current industrial agri-food system generates a series of environmental conflicts that are manifested through struggles and mobilisations in response to the impact this system has on the environment and society. These conflicts are mainly associated with the defence of environmental conditions or equal access and distribution of natural resources, often occurring in production and transit areas, and ultimately affecting the regions and communities where they happen. They often reveal conflicting interests, different development paradigms, and aspects related to involvement in decision-making.

    The aim of this roundtable is to address some of the main current socio-environmental conflicts in Catalonia, arising from the food system, and to understand the causes and impacts both in Catalonia and the Global South, in order to make them visible, encourage dialogue and provide possible solutions or alternatives.

Proximity

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  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

  • Visita guiada a la Llotja de Mar de Barcelona
    Guided tour of the Confraria de Pescadors de Barcelona. How do fish get from the sea to our table?
    October 19 at 7:30 h / October 20, 21 and 22 at 16:00 h
    Fishermen's Guild of Barcelona
    Visit / Tour

    The fish market is a specific part of the Barcelona fishing port where the fish that have been caught during the day are auctioned off for sale. On the occasion of Sustainable Food Week, the market opens its doors so that we can learn about the fleet of the Fishermen’s Guild of la Barceloneta, the various fishing methods used and the environmental impact they have. During the visit, we will talk about the types of fishing and the methods used to catch different species, while learning what a day at the market is like, what species are sold at auction, and what measures are being taken to address the new challenges that are putting marine ecosystems at risk.

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  • Vestigis i futurs de l’agricultura a Barcelona: la Ponderosa, el Rec Comtal i la Casa de l’Aigua
    Remnants and futures of agriculture in Barcelona: La Ponderosa, El Rec Comtal and La Casa de l’Aigua
    October 23th from 10.00 to 13.00 H
    Casa de l'Aigua de la Trinitat Nova
    Visit / Tour

    Are there any allotment estates left in Barcelona? How does Barcelona feed itself? How vulnerable are we, without having land available for producing the food we eat? Discover La Ponderosa, the city’s last allotment estate, the Rec Comtal and water heritage, and fall in love with local produce and sustainable food.

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  • Plant-based sustainable cooking
    October 16th and 17th - 10.00 H and 13.00 H
    Pl. Ramon Berenguer el Gran, 2, entresol 1a escala dreta
    Workshop

    Cookery workshops for everyone who wants their food decisions not to affect the well-being of the planet and who wants to eat as sustainably as possible.

  • Home Vegetable Garden
    October 16th and 23th from 10.00 to 12.00 H
    C de Bailèn, 75
    Workshop

    What do you need to set up a vegetable garden in your home? We will talk about substrates, fertilizer, the cycle of vegetables and growing tables or other ways to organize it. We will also incorporate bio-carbon as a soil regenerator and CO2 trap. Having a vegetable garden at home is not only therapeutic, it also helps with a sustainable diet!

  • Hort vertical sostenible (familiar)
    Sustainable vertical vegetable garden (family)
    October 16th from 10.30 to 12.00 H
    La Fàbrica del Sol Fab Lab
    Workshop

    The Fàbrica del Sol Fab Lab shows us how it has created a small, sustainable vertical vegetable garden, made out of plastic bottles, recycled wood from fruit boxes and cuttings from advertising banners, which can be hung up inside a flat or on a balcony.

    Discover digital manufacturing technologies that are able to turn waste into resources.