On 29-30 May 2018, IPES-Food will convene a major deliberative event, the EU Food and Farming Forum (EU3F), taking place at the Bluepoint Meiser conference center in Brussels. The goal of EU Food and Farming Forum (EU3F) is to co-construct a set of policy proposals addressed to the EU for a comprehensive ‘Common Food Policy’ (understood to mean a ‘Food Systems Policy’ or a ‘Sustainable Food and Farming Policy’). Taking place symbolically one year before the 2019 EU elections, the Forum will yield concrete proposals to be taken up by political parties, campaign groups and ultimately by the EU institutions.

This event is NOT organised by the REFRESH project. For questions about the event, please contact the organisers at eu3f@ipes-food.org

The Forum will provide a platform to collectively identify and agree on priorities for sustainable food systems reforms, bringing greater coherence between policy areas (agriculture, trade, environment, health, internal and external policies, etc.) and policy levels (EU, national, local). The strength of the message will depend on its content (the quality of the proposals), but also on the breadth of the constituencies behind it (how widely it is endorsed), and on the participatory process itself (the quality of the deliberation). The event will also serve as a rallying point to build trust among partners and strengthen advocacy across constituencies and different scales of action.

The Forum will be attended by around 200-250 participants already involved in food system reform at EU or national levels. A range of partners from various constituencies will not only participate at the forum, but will also play an active role in preparatory work leading into the forum. The goal of the forum is to co-construct a ‘Sustainable

Food Scoreboard’ in participatory manner through a collective intelligence exercise.

This scoreboard would allow food systems challenges to be addressed through a multiyear approach that promotes transitional thinking and the alignment of different policies at different levels of governance. It would allow a transition to sustainable food systems in Europe to be established as the ultimate objective, and broken down into the following:

• A set of inter-dependent objectives (or ‘Scoreboard Themes’) for building sustainable food systems in Europe;
• Sub-objectives/targets and priority actions to meet those objectives, with responsibility for actions allocated to different actors/ levels of governance;
• A precise timeline for meeting the actions/objectives, and indicators to measure progress, including both policy indicators (monitoring the actions adopted) and outcome indicators (monitoring the results achieved).