Food Smart Cities in Indonesia: healthy, sustainable and nutritious food for all

Urban food environments and food supply chains are more inclusive, resilient and enabling healthy, sustainable and nutritious diets (HSN) for all citizens, especially women, youth and vulnerable groups in at least 4 Indonesian cities. Food Smart Cities (FSC) Indonesia aims to accelerate the transition to healthy, sustainable, and nutritious (HSN) diets in Indonesian cities by catalyzing collective action among local food systems stakeholders to make urban food environments and food supply chains more conducive to HSN diets as part of resilient and inclusive city region food systems. FSC rests on three pillars: 1) incentivizing efficient and sustainable production of healthy and nutritious food, 2) facilitating inclusive urban food markets that benefit smallholder producers, vulnerable citizens, women, and youth, and 3) advocating for an enabling policy and financial environment that incentivizes HSN diets at the local, national, and international level. The vision for the program is grounded in the common goal of the Joint Strategic Framework Sustainable Cities (JSF SC) to promote sustainable cities globally, with an emphasis on cities, municipalities, or defined territories within which sustainable development goals (SDGs) are realized. FSC Indonesia will contribute to that goal with a specific focus and thematic impact on sustainable and inclusive city region food systems to enable access to HSN food for all citizens in Depok, Bandung, Solo and Denpasar. In doing so, Rikolto will work directly with local actors (rights-holders) and local governments (duty-bearers). It will also work on the interplay between local authorities and other local actors. In addition, the global transition to sustainable cities demands an approach that connects the local and national level to the regional and international level. Through the program’s cross-cutting “evidence for impact” strategy, Food Smart Cities Indonesia will connect local and national level work on sustainable urban food systems to the regional and international levels by creating and leveraging evidence to convince influential actors at all levels to scale-up the innovations supported by the program.