FOOD (Gastro, Culinary) DIPLOMACY
Who can be a food diplomat?
Our Response: everyone!
FOOD (Gastro, Culinary) DIPLOMACY is a subset of public diplomacy that uses food as a means of persuading audiences about the power of cuisine to promote specific foreign policy goals.
At the Institute, we co-build a food diplomacy model, which considers all the linkages that food has with a wide range of SDG-related issues:
1 No Poverty,
2 Zero Hunger,
5, 8,11,12,13 and 17,
to enhance international cross-cultural cooperation with various non-state actors:
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agrarians (through Agrarian Diplomacy)
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and intangible cultural heritage professionals (through Cultural diplomacy),
that share our interests in eradicating the current unfair situation with food.
The Institute acts as a multistakeholder partnership that explores an urgently needed radical shift in food diplomacy.
Moving towards a more sustainable food system requires not just changes in the way we produce and consume food only, but also a deeper understanding of what food is in culture and international relations.
This broader understanding of food manifests itself mostly outside the framework of the dominant state-to-state diplomacy.
We invite food enthusiasts from diverse practices, backgrounds, and locations to join us.
The food crisis, inflation of food prices, and land, water and climate insecurities contribute to the process of reinstating food at the top of the international diplomatic agenda. Fostering dialogue on food and international issues between various actors, including on a multilateral level, our food diplomacy initiative raises great hope for small farmers.
As a non-state actor in diplomacy, the Institute offers its partners an opportunity to work at the forefront of efforts to achieve SDGs through food diplomacy.
Any underrepresented stakeholders involved in food and international issues from all regions, particularly from developing countries, who are interested in working together to bring more balanced representation, promote inclusiveness, and leverage initiatives that can catalyze action are invited to join us.
Institut de diplomatie publique acts as a space to test, model, and scale successful practices in food diplomacy providing its resources for thought and analysis to serve stakeholders who develop, implement, or teach all aspects of food and diplomacy.
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 Diaspora and Food: Open Call for Contributors |  Gastrodiplomacy: Diaspora and Culinary Legacies. Case study of African / Nigerian culinary dishes. |
Food is the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Non-state actors have rights and obligations to participate in the implementation of cultural heritage conventions.
This phenomenon is most prominent in the field of intangible cultural heritage, in particular in food traditions, where communities and even individuals play a central role in safeguarding non-material cultural values of society and transmitting them to future generations.
The Institute analyzes the norms of international cultural heritage conventions and operational guidelines to identify the rights, obligations, status and roles of non-state actors.
It is time to explore innovative mechanisms to enable non-state actors to assume a proper status and take on practical roles to achieve the goal of international cultural heritage law: sustainable protection of cultural heritage.