Rome Food Plan proposes public supermarkets, canteens

Rome presents city Food Plan with public supermarkets and social canteens

Rome's agriculture councillor Sabrina Alfonsi has presented the city's Food Plan, which foresees experimental public supermarkets, social canteens open to all, food justice hubs and solidarity shops in every municipality, ahead of review by the Food Council on 14 November.

11 November 2026 by Robert Eduard Antal, facts checked automatically against the source · updated 12 November 2026

Key facts

The Food Plan was presented by agriculture councillor Sabrina Alfonsi to the Capitoline Environment Committee.

To tackle food poverty, the plan foresees experimental public supermarkets, social canteens open to all, food justice hubs and solidarity shops in every municipality.

The plan will next be shown to the Food Council at an assembly on Saturday 14 November.

Rome’s agriculture councillor Sabrina Alfonsi has presented the city’s Food Plan to the Capitoline Environment Committee. The document sets out how Roma Capitale intends to give all residents access to healthy, nutritious, and ecologically and ethically sustainable food. Its most concrete measures target food poverty, with experimental public supermarkets and social canteens open to all.

What the plan contains

The plan is guided by principles that treat food as a right, culture, living infrastructure, a source of work and a driver of community development. To support shared governance of food policies, it links values, strategic objectives and implementation tools. From these principles, the plan develops seven strategic nodes of the urban food system, together with the problems to address and the opportunities to take. The objectives include adapting the food system to the climate crisis, promoting markets and building a fairer food economy rooted in local areas. Specific actions form the operational level of the plan, defining concrete interventions, responsibilities, administrative tools, institutional partnerships and the involvement of local areas.

Measures against food poverty

The plan foresees the following places in every municipality:

experimental public supermarkets
social canteens open to all
food justice hubs
solidarity shops

Other actions include opening food houses as local outposts for food policy. The plan also provides for a protocol against illegal gangmaster labour and irregular work, and a permanent table with the prison administration. Alfonsi said that food surpluses are “a symptom of overproduction, not the solution to poverty”. The stated impact goal is to progressively reduce the share of Romans facing food insecurity.

What happens next

After the committee, the plan will be presented to the Food Council at an assembly scheduled for Saturday 14 November. It will then go to the city executive, then to the municipalities, and finally to the Capitoline Assembly, whose final approval will allow its provisions to take effect.

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