(Belga) The Brussels-Capital Region launched the second phase of its “Good Food” plan on Tuesday. Ambition? Ensure that all of its population has access to quality food, to improve the health of all and thus offer better resistance to disease. For this second phase, the Region intends to double, by 2030, the number of certified organic companies.
The health crisis of 2020, and the shortages of certain foodstuffs that followed, made it possible to reflect on the need to produce food on a local scale, and to realize that quality food is specific to strengthening immune defenses. once morest various viruses and diseases, according to the Brussels Minister for Climate Transition and the Environment, Alain Maron. It is in the wake of these reflections that the Brussels Region has therefore launched the second phase of its “Good Food” plan. This is structured around five strategic axes: intensifying and supporting agro-ecological production in and around Brussels, developing “Good Food” sectors to supply Brussels, ensuring the distribution of a “Good Food” commercial offer, ensuring “Good Food” for all and, finally, reduce food loss and waste. Concretely, the Region will therefore support “solidarity” businesses, in other words common purchasing groups, social restaurants, cooperatives of small local producers, etc. It will also help canteens to convert to “eating well” practices, and launch calls for projects in neighborhoods that are still poorly supplied with quality food shops, for example projects intended to develop vegetable gardens there. (Belga)