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City Region Food Systems Sustainable
Transition Towards FOOD2030 Policy
Lean KATA at Living Labs – the “machine” which fosters place-
based systemic transition through innovation actions
The challenges at City Region Food Systems
City Region Food Systems (CRFS) demand immediate
action.
Consumers at city region must be at the core of
solutions.
More than 7.7 billion consumers hold the power to shift
100-year-old consumption patterns to meet the
requirements for an improved future.
The challenges: population overgrowth, rapid
urbanisation, vast migration phenomena, climate
change and resources scarcity.
9 billion people, most living in cities, 3 billion
overweight, and 2 billion without enough food (RUAF,
2023; FAO, 2023).
Without action toward transition towards sustainable
CRFS, the environment will persist being degraded and
diminish the world’s capacities to produce quality food
for all.
Lean KATA at Living Labs – the methodology
The improvement Lean KATA is an innovation
pattern (image 1) and set of structured practice
routines (image 2) used to develop scientific
thinking and creativity for Living Labs operators.
Results
Living Labs innovation actions generate exploitable
results, such as improvements, good/promising
practices, innovations and other exploitable results
for cities, regions, and beyond (image 6).
Research team
Tuula Löytty, Smart & Lean Hub Oy, Finland
tuula.loytty@smartlean.fi
Bruno da Silva, İstanbul Avrupa Araştırmaları Derneği, Türkiye
brunoiaad2015@gmail.com
Conclusions
“A goal without a method is cruel.”,
said W. Edwards Deming.
18 Living Labs tested Lean KATA method to impact
on CRFS transition towards EU’s FOOD 2030 policy.
The research shows that Lean KATA method which
is applied at Living Labs generates innovation
actions and interventions, engages multi-actor
stakeholders into actions, and delivers results which
cover whole food value chain and responds to
objectives of FOOD 2030 policy.
Image 1. Lean KATA Innovation Pattern Image 2. Lean KATA Coaching Practices
Activities
Living Labs apply the improvement Lean KATA
and implement innovation actions at 18 cities and
regions in Europe. Living Labs innovation actions
on CRFS cover capacity building actions,
experiments, other measures, system thinking
pilots and external funding initiatives (image 3).
The innovation activities are aligned to FOOD
2030 objectives (image 4) and they cover the
whole food value chain and system (image 5).
Image 3. Living Labs Innovation Actions
Image 4. FOOD 2030 policy objectives Image 5. Food value chain
Image 6. Results of Living Labs’ innovation actions
Cities2030 website:
www.cities2030.eu
Cities2030 Living Labs’ community platform:
https://cities2030-community.gisai.eu/
Links