{"id":2677,"date":"2019-06-30T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transformativecities.org\/?page_id=2677"},"modified":"2020-09-03T05:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:09:12","slug":"atlas-48","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/transformativecities.org\/fr\/atlas\/atlas-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Maison d\u2019\u00c9ducation \u00e0 l\u2019Alimentation Durable (MEAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maison d\u2019\u00c9ducation \u00e0 l\u2019Alimentation Durable (MEAD \u2013 the Education and Sustainable Food Centre) is a municipal initiative incorporating sustainably produced food with respect for health and the environment in the Mouans-Sartoux area. The initial motivation for this project was the \u2018mad cow\u2019 crisis in 1998, which led the municipal council to serve only organic (bio) beef in school canteens.<\/h3>\n

MEAD was set up to support land conservation, build local agricultural-food links, and offer everyone \u2013 from families to businesses, and from students and researchers \u2013 access to a healthy and sustainable diet.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Town of Mouans-Sartoux town<\/em><\/p>\n

MEAD is the latest in a string of effective initiatives on the part of the municipality, including a 100% organic school canteen created in 2012 (for which 85% of vegetables are provided by the municipal agricultural board), a campaign against food waste that has reduced waste by 80%, and a local plan that has tripled agricultural land to encourage farmers to settle on Mouans-Sartoux.<\/p>\n

Working in partnership with local associations and businesses, universities, students, researchers and citizens, MEAD fully supports local food policy. Surveys conducted in 2013 and 2016 revealed that a growing number of people are changing their habits towards more sustainable consumption. In 2016, 85% of parents said they had changed their eating habits, focusing more and more on healthier and more environmentally friendly organic food and other local products.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a long-term and concerted effort involving a high capacity coalition of key local actors, achieving deep, sustained and far-reaching transformation of the local and regional food system in many different dimensions, robustly evidenced and exerting significant influence elsewhere.\u201d
\n\u2013 Tom Henfrey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Would you like to learn more about this initiative? Please contact<\/a>\u00a0us.<\/p>\n

Or visit www.mouans-sartoux.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t