Inauguration of the Universitat de València's Mercat Agroecològic

The guideIniciativas de consumo alimentario sostenible en la UVwill be presented in the inauguration. Thiswas produced by theFair trade and proximitywork group of theUniversitat de València and led by the Office of the Vice-Principal for Equality, Diversity and Sustainability in collaboration with l'Horta de ValènciaChair.

Sergio Belda, Doctor in Local Development and International Cooperation andcoauthor of the guide, will present this work in which the initiatives to transform food consumptionhabits at the University towards more sustainable and healthy models are described. Thesetake into account the most respectful to the environment local and in-season products and cultivation methods.

After the function, we will visit theMercat Agroecològic which will be located outdoors between the lecture rooms I and III of the Blasco Ibáñez Campus, accessing through Menéndez y Pelayo. In this first edition, the Mercat consists of two stalls selling fruit and vegetables from local productors, an oil stall, a familiar home-made bakery stall and another with fair trade products from an entity of the NGDO Valencian coordinating committee.

The Mercat will take place during this pilot experience on Fridays 8, 15, 22 and 29 October thanks to the collaboration and support of the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry and the Dean of the Campus, Antoni Merelles.

According to itsreception and participation, new dates will be proposed and its expansion to other campuses will be studied.

The Mercat entails a further step to the commitment of UVSostenibilitat for bringing closer the convenience of adopting healthier and more sustainable consumption habits to the university community, taking into account the origin, the production method and the carbon footprint of the products we consume.

The information about the market will be updated inhttps://www.uv.es/uv-sustainability/en/uv-sustainability.htmland the registration for going to the inauguration and the presentation of the guide is opened inhttps://ir.uv.es/dKXu16h.

All the university community is invited to attend the innauguration of theMercat Agroecològic, visitits stalls and reflect on eating habits and their impact on our health and on the planet.