Name
Liege Food Belt (Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise - CATL)
country
Belgium
Goal
CATL is an association dedicated to promoting sustainable food amongst the general public and to fostering local food production and distribution in the Liège region, with a special focus on vegetable growers. It was launched by citizens in November 2013 with the support of the City of Liège. Here we talk to Elisabeth Gruié, communications officer with the CATL team and coordinator of the annual Nourrir Liège (Feeding Liège) festival.
Main Topic
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork"; a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
All Topics
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Scale
- Neighbourhood or Local community
- City and peri-urban
- Regional (e.g. a province, including multiple cities)
Actors
- Community-based initiative (i.e. citizens, cooperative, neighbourhood group)
- Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
- Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
- For-profit company
- Local government
- Regional government
- National government
Main Activity
Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
- Facilitating dialogue and networking
- Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
- (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
- Developing and/or producing goods
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.