The DEMETRA project aims to deal with sustainable food governance in urban contexts to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal and the ‘Farm to Fork’ Strategy.
This 42-months (May 2024 – November 2027) project is funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe framework programme.
DEMETRA focuses on enhancing the inclusion and empowerment of citizens in democratically governed food system transformation by analyzing, developing, and implementing novel deliberative and participatory processes (DPPs), in terms of their quality of deliberation, inclusiveness, and empowerment of politically engaged participants.
DEMETRA pursues 4 narrower objectives: