Edible Cities Network: Integrating Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities

The Edible Cities Network (EdiCitNet) works towards making cities around the world better places to live through the implementation and institutional integration of Edible City Solutions.

Edible City Solutions (ECS) are all forms of sustainable urban food production, distribution and use – from neighbourhood gardens, to urban beekeeping and sheep farming, green facades or high-tech indoor farming, cooking and dining events and the use of locally grown urban food in restaurants.  

Our aims

The Edible City Solutions Project aims to:

• make cities healthier, greener and more livable
• create new green businesses and jobs,
• and empower local communities to overcome social problems.

An innovation action

Food is not only a popular topic of conversation – it is shared by everyone and connects us all. The Edible Cities Network is not a regular research project, it’s an innovation action funded by the European Commission (EASME).

That means we are working under real world conditions with real people, real challenges and real solutions. We are testing, demonstrating, piloting and transferring ECS in close cooperation with local people from the very beginning of the process, working together with them to improve life in their cities. 

The inclusive and participatory dynamics inherent in ECS engender both local economic growth and social cohesion by empowering communities to strengthen social ties through communal events. We also strive to create new green businesses and job opportunities revolving around urban food production, distribution and use.

The systemic use of urban landscapes for food production is a major step towards more sustainable, livable and healthier cities.

EdiCitNet is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 776665.