The current conventional food system has supported a fast-growing population and fuelled economic development and urbanisation. However, these productivity gains have come at environmental cost, and today’s model is not fit to meet tomorrow’s longer term needs neither locally nor globally. Changing our food system to one based on the principles of the circular economy is one of the most powerful initiatives we can do to tackle climate change and preserve biodiversity. Various regional municipalities across the Baltics have put food and sustainability as a priority in their long term regional strategic plans. However, the lack of awareness, experience and competencies and how to work with circular economy at the regional and local municipality level, and the bottom-up collaboration scarcity, have become impediments on the development of resilient and sustainable food regions. Municipalities need collaboration, partnership, knowledge and understanding about "circular economy for food" program models, implementation methods, tools, evaluation, and policy development. This project suggests an efficient way to do this in the Baltic countries, by reinforcing cross-sector cooperation and accelerate the development of sustainable food systems in rural and peri-urban areas; this to be able to meet the needs of the growing urban population, the nutritional health problems and the increase of gastronomy tourism in the region.