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GOOD FOOD STRATEGY TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM INTHE BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION

Developing healthy, good quality and locally-sourced food based on short supply chains meets our needs in terms of public health and quality of life as well as in terms of environmental and social improvements. In Brussels, food represents a quarter of the environmental impact of a Brussels household. Access to good quality food is also a challenge at a time when 32,000 people are dependent on food aid and one third of Brussels residents live with an income below the poverty warning line. In order to reverse these social, health-related, environmental and economic realities, along with all the stakeholders in the field concerned, we have deployed the "Good Food Strategy – Towards a sustainable food system in the Brussels-Capital Region". The latter contains a series of "from farm to fork” measures with very specific goals to be achieved by 2020. Thus, the "Good Food" initiative targets the development of new urban farming pro-jects with an objective of producing 30% of fruit and vegetables locally by 2035.Finally, the reduction of food waste constitutes another one of the strategy's priorities. We are aiming for a 30% reduction in food waste by 2020.

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