http://www.fao.org/cfs/home/events/nutrition-events/en/ This event is part of a series of events to “develop common understanding of issues and lay the basis for informed CFS policy convergence work” on nutrition and food systems, called for by the strategy “CFS engagement in advancing nutrition”. In line with this strategy, this event aims to increase common understanding about how policies and investment opportunities can improve nutrition through healthier food systems. The theme was proposed by the CFS Open Ended Working Group on Nutrition, based on the UNSCN Discussion Paper on the topic and can help build learning in advance of CFS policy convergence on nutrition and food systems, anticipated after CFS 44. This event will highlight the opportunities and constraints that different food systems offer for interventions for good nutrition and human health. It will share examples of different food systems and investments, and learn about their implications for other sectors by discussing linkages, tensions and trade-offs This presentation was provided by Andrea Pezzana, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital and University of Turin, Italy

1. The experience of
“Nutrire Torino metropolitana”
(Feeding Turin metropolitan area)
Andrea Pezzana
Elena Di Bella

2. Understanding Differences in Food Systems:
Challenges and Opportunities for Nutrition
in an Urban Metropolitan area
• In Italy traditionally every community is rich in typical agro-food and gastronomic products,
characterizing local identity, but the foodscape is changing and cities and urban areas are
emerging as relevant scales and major forces driving the sustainability of agro-food
systems and fostering food justice
• Recent acceleration of the human impact upon nature
• Emerging role of urban areas in promoting sustainable and equitable food systems,
defending biodiversity, mitigating the effects of climate change
• Food is at the strategical and trasversal point of contact of many “vertical” policies: urban
planning, agricultural policies, health, education, transports and logistics, new poverties,
environment, water resources

3. Turin metropolitan area
- characteristics, challenges and opportunities -
• 2,2 million inhabitants, 6800 km²
• Variety of landscapes (urban area, agricultural area, foothills with
livestock and dairy production, alpine zone)
• 222.700 hectares of agriculture surface, 50% of the total)
• Mixed food system type 2, according to the UNSCN
document “Investments for healthy food systems”
• Prior to 2006, Turin was largely regarded as an industrial
city, rather than a holiday destination, but the 2006
Olympic Winter Games helped sheding that image,
enabling the city to become a new tourism and business
hub by showcasing its rich history, culture and high-tech
industry to the world.

4. The process
• Long work of drawing-up, starting form an Interreg Med project (dated 2009-2011), the
Rururbal project
• Since 2015, 3 participatory workshops connecting the many existing best food practices in
the Metropolitan area
• Meet and network - Compare and match - Design
• Gathering the bottom-up energies and practices
• Focusing on good, safe, equally and daily accessible, proper and fair food
…..working on priorities ….

5. … and widening the point of view.
• Visions
• Existing policies, food diversity and accessibility
• Strategic planning
• Policies, practices and projects
• Governance, local welfare and social inclusion, school and education,
agriculture, urban gardens
• International cooperation and local economy
• Future scenarios
• Knowledge
• Sense of institution
• New governance

7. A holistic political (πολις)
dimension taking into
consideration the needs of
resilient cities and
metropolis, avoiding
sectorial approaches.
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