The MUFPP is pleased to announce the launch of a series of webinars on urban food systems titled “The potential of urban food policies in Latinoamerica and Caribbeans“. The series is developed in collaboration with Mercociudades, a network of more than 370 cities in Latin America committed to urban resilience and supported by Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. This series is the first project included in a collaborative framework between MUFPP and Mercociudades, which aims to present examples of urban food policies to cities of both networks, to create possibilities of networking and to work as a platform to design new ones. 

The series will be articulated in 7 webinars: the introductory webinar took place on September 4th and one for each of the 6 categories of the Pact, in between the end of the 2024 and the first half of 2025. The main language is going to be Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in Portuguese.

The introductory webinar

The introductory webinar, moderated by the Head of Mercociudades, Jorge Rodriguez, started with the institutional greetings by Maria Auxiliadora Executive Secretary of Mercociudades, São Paulo City Hall, and the MUFPP, followed by a presentation about the Pact by the Filippo Gavazzeni, Head of MUFPP. We had the great pleasure of having Jorge Meza, from FAO Brazil, giving a speech called “The potential of urban food policies in Latinoamerica”. Finally, the two MUFPP leaders for the South American Region, Rosario and Belo Horizonte, spoke about their experiences through the words of Rogelio Biazzi, Chief of Cabinet, Municipality of Rosario, and Chyara Sales Pereira, Deputy Municipal Secretary of Economic Development and Responsible for International Relations, Municipality of Belo Horizonte.

If you wish to watch again the webinar, please click on this link or go to MUFPP’s Youtube channel.

This time, we had the participation of more than 70 people from all over the Latin American Region, we are wishing the same success for the second webinar about “Governance” scheduled for the second half of October.