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The Nourishing Neighborhood
The 5 ingredients of a nourishing neighborhood are essential elements to its existence!
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01
Productive territory
◆ Plan agricultural areas sustainably to protect and enhance them.
◆ Build the city within the city to limit urban sprawl.
◆ Allocate spaces for urban agriculture and recognize its catalytic role in promoting a local food system.
◆ Rethink urban-rural relationships by creating productive green networks.
◆ Include food systems in municipal planning by adapting regulations accordingly.
02
Prosperous and Responsible Businesses
◆ Create solidarity networks between farmers, local artisans, distributors, and citizens (e.g., community-supported agriculture).
◆ Encourage and support the development of responsible practices (e.g., financial support, land banks for small-scale organic or agroecological farming).
03
Improved Access to Quality Food
◆ Optimize the location and design of food infrastructures (e.g., place food facilities close to living areas)
◆ Improve transportation to these infrastructures (e.g., facilitate active transportation).
◆ Enhance the food supply (e.g., increase the availability of fresh, high-quality products in stores and public institutions).
◆ Fight food insecurity (e.g., strengthen people’s empowerment and purchasing power).
04
Increased Demand for Local Products
◆ Integrate local foods into traditional distribution channels for consumption (e.g., prioritize regional producers during the season).
◆ Promote local marketing spaces (e.g., strengthen short supply chain initiatives).
◆ Educate people about gardening, cooking, and responsible eating.
05
Optimized Life Cycle (Circular Economy)
◆ Prevent and reduce food waste from farm to plate (e.g., optimize practices).
◆ Use food to its full potential (e.g., share food surpluses).
◆ Give a second life to food resources for people (e.g., process downgraded foods, repurpose by-products through the circular economy).
◆ Give a second life to food resources for animals.
◆ Transform organic matter into resources (e.g., composting, biomethanation).