Urban Delta Briefing 2024 - Thailand

The “Thai – Dutch Sustainable Urban Delta Briefing 2024: Viable Sustainable Urban Food Ecosystem” addressed the intertwined big challenges that the world is facing. Food systems have impacted, and are impacted by climate change, biodiversity degradation, and people’s well-being.

Solving these challenges together requires collaborative efforts with an integral approach by the relevant stakeholders from city government, entrepreneurs, businesses, academia, farmers, consumers, and communities. 

The dialogues focused on practical solutions and initiatives on the possibility of bringing food production around, or back into the cities. This can be achieved by means of green belts or indoor farming, for example. The goal in doing so is to decrease the negative impact of our food production and to offer citizens fresh and healthy food.

The Urban Delta Briefing has welcomed distinguished guest speakers from government, private and academic sectors, such as Pornphrom Vikitsreth, Chief of Sustainability Officer for Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Ms. Meiny Prins, Founder of the Sustainable Urban Delta Foundation & CEO Priva the Netherlands, and Prof. Dr. Bharat Dahiya, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation.