Agròpolis
Agròpolis is a public community space promoted by Barcelona City Council for dialogue, work and action among civil society, economic stakeholders, universities and the municipal public authority, which share the common goal of collaborating to transform Barcelona’s food system through the values of food sovereignty and agroecology.
Què ens uneix?
La voluntat de transformar el sistema alimentari de Barcelona des de la sobirania alimentària i l’agroecologia.
Sobirania alimentària:
“Entenem per sobirania alimentària el dret dels pobles a determinar les polítiques agrícoles i alimentàries que els afecten: a tenir dret i accés a la terra, als recursos naturals, a poder alimentar-se de forma sana i saludable amb aliments lliures de transgènics, a protegir i a regular la producció i el comerç agrícola interior amb l’objectiu d’aconseguir un desenvolupament sostenible i la seguretat alimentària. Es tracta d’una estratègia per trencar amb les polítiques agrícoles neoliberals imposades per l’Organització Mundial del Comerç, el Banc Mundial i el Fons Monetari Internacional.”
Moragues-Faus, A. (2020) L’Alimentació Sostenible: manual per a ciutats. Ajuntament de Barcelona; PEMB; AMB: Barcelona.
What we do
We join forces to meet the challenges of the city’s food system, from the following three spaces:
- A meeting space for establishing connections and improving coordination among different stakeholders and areas of work relating to sustainable food.
- A co-creation space for projects and initiatives related to developing an agrifood system that is working towards food sovereignty.
- A lobbying space for proposing, checking and influencing public policies on sustainable food.
Lines of work
An Agròpolis plenary meeting decided to link its work areas to the challenges set out in the Barcelona Sustainable Food Strategy 2030.
We chose five of the nine challenges identified to be developed by Agròpolis. They are the following:
- Increase the production and sale of local and organic foods and short distribution circuits.
- Protect and recover urban and peri-urban food production spaces.
- Protect and recover urban and peri-urban food production spaces.
- Foster a change in food culture.
- Balance power within the food chain, and foster fair relationships.
How can you join Agròpolis?
If you are a group, entity, business or organisation that works with sustainable food, agroecology, urban agriculture and food sovereignty in the city of Barcelona or its metropolitan region, why not join us?
Step 1: Meet five criteria
- Having a connection with Barcelona’s food system (regardless of your location).
- Sharing the aim to transform it towards a fairer, healthier, more sustainable and more sufficient model.
- Working within the framework of agroecology and food sovereignty.
- Expressing the desire to take part in Agròpolis-related spaces and processes.
- Representing a project, group, entity or company that is working to transform the food system (if you want to participate in the space as an individual, please contact agropolis@bcn.cat).
Step 2: Fill out the form
Application form to join the participatory Agròpolis space
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“We understand by food sovereignty the right of peoples to determine the agricultural and food policies that affect them: to have the right and access to land, natural resources, to be able to feed healthily and healthily with GM-free food, to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade with the aim of achieving sustainable development and food security. It is a strategy to break with the neoliberal agricultural policies imposed by the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”
Moragues-Faus, A. (2020) Sustainable Food: a manual for cities. Barcelona City Council; PEMB; AMB: Barcelona.
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Agroecology is a science, a set of agricultural practices and a social movement. Assuming the crucial centrality of food within societies, the proposal of agroecology is to promote fair food systems based on ecological practices that are opposed to petro-industrial food systems, which work with traditional and scientific knowledge and are often articulated through forms of collective social action. These systems incorporate a project with a socio-political vision of integral transformation of food systems necessary to face the current ecological and social crisis.
(Adaptation of Moragues-Faus, A. (2020) Sustainable Food: Handbook for Cities. Barcelona City Council; PEMB; AMB: Barcelona, and Eduardo Sevilla Guzm lan (From rural sociology to agroecology, 2006).
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Fruit d’una sessió d’intercooperació es va decidir crear una eina per facilitar el vincles entre les organitzacions que treballen en l’àmbit de l’alimentació sostenible i els centres de recerca de la ciutat. L’objectiu és connectar projectes i necessitats del teixit econòmic, social, i comunitari amb les recerques del món universitari. Així, a través d’aquesta senzilla eina, es podrà visualitzar les necessitats i propostes de col·laboracions entre agents, com per exemple propostes d’estudiants en pràctiques, recerca de col·laboracions per a projectes europeus, recerca aplicada a sectors o col·lectius concrets…
L’eina és un repositori Excel en línia, al qual tenen accés les organitzacions i centres de recerca que hagin omplert el formulari on es recolliran les seves necessitats i ofertes, que poden ser continues o puntals. Cada cop que una organització tingui una nova oferta de col·laboració o necessitats, caldrà que torni a omplir el formulari.
Enllaç al formulari per a centres de recerca
Enllaç al formulari per a organitzacions
Enllaç a l’Excel amb el repositori de totes les ofertes i necessitats
En cas de dubte, cal contactar amb agropolis@bcn.cat
News
Notícies Agropolis
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10/11/2025 - 13:45 h Commerce and markets Fishing and sustainable fish consumption in Barcelona, the focus of the new December Agròpolis session!The next session is called ‘Fishing and sustainable fish consumption in Barcelona’, and it will be held on 4 December at 3 pm at the Confraria de Pescadors in Barceloneta.
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26/09/2025 - 13:11 h Commerce and markets Agròpolis presents a new intercooperation repository so research centres and sustainable food organisations can join forcesThe tool was presented at an online session on 17 September with many participants which featured talks by representatives of research centres and organisations in the Agròpolis network.
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04/09/2025 - 17:19 h Commerce and markets Agròpolis promotes a new intercooperation event to connect research centres and social entitiesOn 17 September, Agròpolis will be hosting an online session to strengthen ties between research centres and entities from the agroecology sector.
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21/05/2025 - 16:49 h Commerce and markets Agrohackathon 2025: transformative alliances for fairer, more sustainable foodThe Agròpolis space organised a new Agrohackathon, a working group among different organisations to promote transformative inter-cooperation agrifood projects in Barcelona, at the Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Centre on 16 May.
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12/05/2025 - 14:55 h City Council Barcelona allotments reflect on a new culture of waterOrganised by Agròpolis, the meeting “Allotments and drought” highlights the capacity of the allotment community to make specific suggestions for facing future crises.
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24/04/2025 - 13:31 h Commerce and markets ‘Vincles que Alimenten’: cooperation between organisations and local communities with a view to transforming eating habits in city neighbourhoodsVida Sana, Antígona and Manjaretti have created a guide to encourage dietary change with the active participation of local communities, highlighting the potential that projects emerging from the Agrópolis' Agro-hackathon have.
