City Region Food Systems Sustainable Transition Towards FOOD2030 Policy

The challenges at City Region Food Systems

·City Region Food Systems (CRFS) demand immediate action.
·Consumers at city region must be at the core of solutions.
·More than 7.7 billion consumers hold the power to shift 100-year-old consumption patterns to meet the requirements for an improved future.
·The challenges: population overgrowth, rapid urbanisation, vast migration phenomena, climate change and resources scarcity.
·9 billion people, most living in cities, 3 billion overweight, and 2 billion without enough food (RUAF, 2023; FAO, 2023).
·Without action toward transition towards sustainable CRFS, the environment will persist being degraded and diminish the world’s capacities to produce quality food for all.

Conclusions
“A goal without a method is cruel.”,said W. Edwards Deming.
18 Living Labs tested Lean KATA method to impact on CRFS transition towards EU’s FOOD 2030 policy. 
The research shows that Lean KATA method which is applied at Living Labs generates innovation actions and interventions, engages multi-actor stakeholders into actions, and delivers results which cover whole food value chain and responds to objectives of FOOD 2030 policy.