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Swiss Food System change coalition-building workshop!

September 14, 2023
Movement
By
Diana Ugalde
Blogs & Vlogs

Swiss Food System change coalition-building workshop!

September 14, 2023
Movement
By
Diana Ugalde

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Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Back in February 2023, at the Swiss Food Summit, politicians were handed a guide with policy recommendations to transform the Swiss food system. These had been previously developed by the Swiss Citizens’ Assembly on Food Policy, a collective formed to counterbalance a highly polarised debate on food systems in Switzerland.  100 randomly selected individuals supported by over 30 experts from various institutions developed 126 policy recommendations over a period of 6 months and through 11 physical and virtual meetings.

To ensure that momentum doesn’t get lost, Healthy Food Healthy Planet helped organise a Swiss Food System change coalition building workshop on the 14th of September with a group of Swiss funders. The purpose was to explore key questions with an informal group of organisations that had been closely involved in the process, such as:

  1. How can we keep the momentum in the debate and show that the recommendations of the expert panel and the citizen’s assembly on Food Policy are doable, beneficial and desired by large parts of the population?  
  1. What is to be learned from other European efforts?  
  1. Who else needs to be brought into the effort?  
  1. What would it take to work together to make it happen?  

Our day started with a brief reminder of the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) vision and the recommendations laid out by the expert panel, pathways to the future of food guidelines. Later, split into various groups, a collective brainstorming session mapped all the different stakeholders in the Swiss food ecosystem to build the power needed for transformation.

Then, the group gathered around 3 tables to reflect on where the momentum is, existing plans and identifying additional ideas around 3 specific topics: Farmers, Value Chain & Industry and Cities and Councils - to show that the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on food policy are doable/implementable, beneficial, and desired by large parts of the population.

The workshop ended with a reflection on how to collectively build the power needed, bring missing voices into the debate, and actually implement the ideas that had been created. If you want to know more about the outcomes and what is being planned in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

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