What is Milan Pact
Improving our quality of life with healthy and sustainable food systems
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) is a voluntary treaty signed by cities that commit to developing sustainable, inclusive, resilient, safe and diversified food systems to ensure healthy and accessible food for all people.
Madrid City Council signed the accord on 15 October 2015, reaffirming its political and economic role in facing strategic and highly complex challenges, such as those arising from the need to guarantee the universal right to access to healthy food based on the principles of sustainability and social justice.
The Milan Pact proposes:
A human rights-based framework for action,
that minimise waste,
and conserve biodiversity while,
adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Following this line of activity, Madrid is working to improve the quality of life of the people of Madrid by promoting healthy food systems through the Madrid Healthy and Sustainable Food Strategy. The Strategy aims to contribute to achieving the commitments undertaken in the Strategy for Localising the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in the City of Madrid, in line with the roadmap towards climate neutrality by 2050 and with the City of Madrid’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The Madrid Healthy and Sustainable Food Strategy 2022 - 2025 links together the different food system programmes and actions by various municipal government departments. The aim is to generate a common coordination framework to reinforce programmes and enable progress in joint actions to apply the healthy and sustainable food perspective in a cross-cutting way in the City, improving effectiveness and impact.
The EASSM for 2022 - 2025 consists of two biannual action plans and focuses on the following strategic priorities:
Aims to promote knowledge about healthy and sustainable eating patterns. It encourages people to adopt healthy habits and diets to prevent non-communicable diseases, raises awareness among the general public about sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with the planet’s resources
Aims to reduce food loss and prevent waste, recovering organic rubbish and reducing the generation of wastes associated with food packaging and packing.
Which aims to defend the right to healthy and sufficient food for everyone, particularly vulnerable people
Aims to incorporate the ethical, social and environmental aspects in public food procurement
This priority aims to protect productive land, facilitate food production and transformation in urban and peripheral areas, establish alliances with the rural population and training in agroecology and sustainable food production and support for entrepreneurship
Aims to encourage favourable environments for innovation and transformation to carry out projects and create real-world environments for experimentation
Which aims to encourage short supply chains, especially for organic, artisan and food from Spain, supporting town markets and strengthening the connection between rural and urban areas.
Aims to create spaces and mechanisms that enable the design, promotion and implementation of public policies to promote shared responsibility and collaboration among institutions, academia, civil society, producers and the private sector
Madrid Healthy and Sustainable Food Strategy 2022-2025
Results and transparency
The current Healthy and Sustainable Food Strategy 2022-2025 builds on the previous edition and consolidates the measures implemented under it.
Work to define EASS 2018-20 began at the end of March 2017 in response to the commitments made with the signing of the Milan Pact. As this was the first Strategy, it required a considerable effort to diagnose the state of Madrid city’s food system and identify benchmark good practices through participatory processes, workshops and activities with the participation of experts in the field.
EASS 2018-20 Final Implementation Report
Implementation Report March 2019 - February 2020
Implementation Report March 2018 - February 2019