In this programme you will find practical ways for moving towards a diet that includes habits which improve quality of life for ourselves and the people around us.
You learn how this affects our decisions, how we choose what we buy and where we buy it, all in a cheerful, fun and creative way.
We discover how to improve our surroundings and our inner selves, in order to feel full of life.
Our food choices have an impact on the environment; we review various diets (carnivorous, omnivorous and vegetarian) and finally focus on the plant-based diet.
Sustainable Food Citizen Week
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Video resum de la Setmana Ciutadana de l'Alimentació Sostenible 2021
The activities of the Sustainable Food Citizen Week
Sustainable Food Citizen Week provides an opportunity to understand the relationship between food habits and cross-cutting aspects such as the climate emergency, local economic development, culture, politics, social rights and health. A week dedicated to citizens, in which you will achieve knowledge, reflection and debate about the main issues of the following activities.
Gastronomic heritage
- October 18th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
- October 19th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
How can you adapt sustainable food to healthy living?
Batch cooking consists in cooking for the whole family and investing a little time so you can make nutritious everyday meals, at home and for your lunch box.
BREAKFAST: habits as simple as a good glass of water, with sea water and lemon. Breakfasts such as shakes or smoothies, which you can warm up in winter. You will discover recipes such as rice pudding and pear, quality-bread sandwiches and an omelette made from organic eggs.
LUNCH: important notions on how to structure a dish with different groups of foods. A dish is not the same for a teenager as a middle-aged person. You can cook the same for all the family but put in what each person needs. You should always add vegetables in season, wholemeal carbohydrates, some raw vegetables, sprouted and fermented foods, etc. You will discover recipes such as baked pumpkin with curry; lentils cooked with adobo, sprouted ... and seeds; chickpeas with prawns; wholemeal rice with mushrooms; and lettuce head salad with carrot, olives and chopped chives. Wholemeal pasta with courgettes, mushrooms, squid with carrot and beetroot.
EVENING MEAL: an evening meal or supper should be light and eaten as early as possible. You will discover recipes such as pumpkin, sweet potato and oatmeal soup; vegetable pudding with carrot and broccoli; fish soup with noodles, and grilled fish in a sauce.
- October 20th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
Getting children away from processed food as much as possible.
At home, we can organise menus very quickly, using fresh and seasonal local produce.
Not forgetting breakfasts and snacks and their natural desire for sweet food; we offer some great solutions.
Waste vs Good use
- October 14th - 19.30 HPlaça de Sant JaumeShow
The start off the week will be a chorus, musical, and participative. Having their say will be the real heroes of sustainable food, those involved in the food cycle: the fishermen, drivers, chefs, farmers, ranchers, market vendors. The speech will be intertwined with the large mechanical orchestra of Cabo San Roque, distributed in the form of a sound mural in front of the City Hall, along with the active participation of the public, in a collective musical creation composed especially for the occasion. A show that highlights all the participants behind the food supply network and gives them a voice.
- Scenography and musical composition: Cabo San Roque
- Stage direction and coordination: Edi Pou
- Idea and concept: Virginia Angulo / Martín Garber
- October 16 at 11:00hParc de la BarcelonetaTalk
Presentation of the guide that provides readers with ideas, examples and lines of action for initiating better food-use actions in the city's neighbourhoods, either in the form of food networks, better food use meals or other formats.
Guide authors: Espai Ambiental Cooperativa and Associació Cuchara. Published by Barcelona City Council. - October 16th - 11.30 HParc de la BarcelonetaTalk
Presentation of the Pont Alimentari [Food Bridge] project, promoted by Rezero and the Resources Bank Foundation since 2015, with the aim of reducing food waste in the retail, catering and restaurant food-distribution sector, creating a network for interaction and better food use among donor companies and recipient organisations supporting vulnerable groups.
Urban rurality and biodiversity
- October 19th - 19.00 HVideoconferenceWorkshop, Online
Virtual session offering advice and answering questions about the value of seasonality: food production and distribution models, urban garden planning, and strategies for preserving and extending the availability of products.
Not sure what to do with all the tomatoes you pick from the garden in the summer? Wondering how come you can buy tomatoes from the market all year round? In this session, we will look at the calendar and highlight the seasonal nature of horticultural produce. We will analyse the models of production and distribution of products in the agri-food industry and, at the same time, learn how to make a good plan for starting seeds and planting in our gardens, while discovering strategies for conserving and extending the availability of the products we grow throughout the whole year.This session relates to the following informational clip
- October 19th - 22.00 HBetevé broadcastingDocumentary film season
Seeds of Freedom (Llavors de llibertat) charts the story of seed, from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world, to its transformation into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.
The film explores the ways in which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular, have impacted upon the agro-biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world over millennia.
The film challenges the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes clear how the corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to make vast profit and take control of the global food system.
- October 20th - 17.30 HJardins de PedralbesVisit / Tour
A walk for discovering the many wild plants we have close to home that we were unfamiliar with and the varied possible uses of which we could never have imagined. We’ll learn how to identify them, we’ll smell and taste them and discover the uses each of the species has inside and outside the kitchen.
Ecological footprint
- October 17th - 20.00 HPlaça del ReiScreening
Recovering the earth’s natural capacity to store carbon and sustain life could be one of the most effective ways to combat climate change.
Therefore, it is necessary to recompose all the stages of this complex framework, a task that many people are promoting through different initiatives around the world. This documentary shows us that the answers to environmental problems lie in nature, literally beneath our feet. - October 17th - 20.00 HPlaça ReialShow
At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun. - October 18th - 22.00 H (variable frequency programming betevé)Betevé broadcastingDocumentary film season
Our plate is our most powerful tool to fight global warming and protect the planet. Our diet currently plays a very significant role in the dangers that threaten our planet. But there is hope. Investigative journalist Benoît Bringer travels the world looking for men and women who are producing a new food model, one that is respectful of both humanity and nature. This documentary gives us hope and shows us how each of us can be an agent of change and develop recipes for an economically viable food transition.
This activity is part of the Betevé documentary film series that includes the films Fermentación espontánea, Taste the waste, Food for change and Il mare piange.
Food and social rights
- October 15th - 20.00 HPlaça ReialRadio programme
The best radio team will carry out a live program that you cannot miss. Next Friday, October 15, on the occasion of Sustainable Food Week, they will interview different people with a lot to say in the world of food, with transforming projects of the current food system and focused on change. There will also be live music by rapper Anier. See you on October 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the Plaza Real in Barcelona. (In case of being left without an invitation, do not hesitate to come and occupy the chair that some soulless person has left free). Carne Cruda is an independent and alternative program financed by its listeners, which deals with current affairs and social interest, which promotes cooperation and the fact of freely sharing culture.
- October 17th - 14.30 HJardí dels TarongersCulinary experience
Through the preparation of typical Senegalese dishes, we explain the situation of that country's fishing industry, and emphasise the need to create other models of responsible consumerism in regard to the environment and people.
The menu will be:
- 2 wraps (vegetables or chicken)
- Rice
- Juice(Bissap o Ginger)
- 2 begnesWe hereby inform you that we cannot guarantee that the meals served during this event are free of substances that may cause some type of allergy or food intolerance.
- October 17th - 18.00 HJardí dels TarongersTalk
Presentation of the Alimenta project, which aims to build a new support model based on a public-social partnership: cooperation and networking between Barcelona City Council, social entities, and the food business network in the city.
Proximity
- October 16th - 18.00 HPlaça ReialTalk
Discussion on unsustainable fishing and its impact. What are the consequences of not fishing in our seas? We’ll be meeting up to discuss the impact that international fishing agreements are having and the advantages to local fishing. We will also find out how West Africa's coastal populations are facing over-exploitation of their maritime resources and what local-fish initiatives we have in Barcelona.
- October 16th - 20.00 HPlaça ReialTalk
Presentation of Repensa el que menges (Rethink What You Eat), a guide for the sustainability of formal and non-formal educational practices in the promotion of the right to food through the service learning methodology.
- October 16th - 20.00 HTeatre del CCCB, Jardí dels Tarongers, Plaça del Rei, Parc de la BarcelonetaShow
A unique musical group, the Vegetable Orchestra, plays instruments made from fresh vegetables. The use of various vegetable instruments makes for a unique musical and aesthetic universe. The Vegetable Orchestra covers the most diverse musical styles, combining genres from electronic music to jazz. The newly created instruments determine the resulting sound. A Vegetable Orchestra concert appeals to all five senses.
More week
- October 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23th and 24th from 12.30 to 14.00 HMasia Can Calopa de DaltVisit / Tour
This activity is an adapted version of the classic visit ‘The Winery and the Vineyard’ offered at Can Calopa de Dalt. In this case, the activity offers a special tasting of wines from periurban projects managed by L’Olivera: Vinyes de Barcelona (from the Finca de Can Calopa de Dalt, in Collserola) and Arraona Blanc i Negre (from the estate at Can Gambús, in the Sabadell Agricultural Park).
- October 16th from 9.00 to 18.00 H / October 17th from 9.00 to 14.00 HInstitute of Catalan Studies, Sala Prat de la RibaRound table
A forum for agriculture, livestock farming, science and the academic world, as well as consumers, where people can meet, debate and establish a framework for cooperation which favours a transition towards resilient, healthy, fair and diversified food systems.
A place where people can work on how to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequestrate carbon in food systems in order to counter and adapt to climate change. - October 16th, 17th, 23th and 24th from 10.30 to 19.00 HLa Rambla Kiosk (near Mercat de la Boqueria)Exhibition
Are you aware of the entities and other organisations that promote and work to make sustainable, fair and healthy food more accessible in Barcelona? Do you know who promotes this in your neighbourhood and what initiatives they organise? Do you need help putting it into practice? Would you like to get involved?
Come along to the kiosks on La Rambla and find out for yourself! Check the grid to see the times for each organisation. We will be near Mercat de la Boqueria.
