This issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine addresses the growing attention for city region food systems. A policy and practice approach that focuses on urban food issues from a city-regional perspective. The approach takes into account contributions from urban and periurban agriculture and a strengthening of urban-rural relations.
The magazine features articles from cities involved in the SUPURBFOOD programme. The magazine was officially launched at the ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress on 10 June 2015 in Bonn, Germany.
Also available in Portuguese.
Contents:
- Editorial: Food on the urban agenda
- Food in an Urbanised World: The role of city region food systems
- City Region Food Systems: An inclusive and integrated approach to improving food systems and urban-rural linkages
- Food Systems on the City Agenda
- Developing the Rotterdam City Region Food System: Acting and thinking at the same time
- The Food Systems and Food Security Study for the City of Cape Town
- City Region Food Systems on the Political Agenda in France
- Sustaining Grassroots Initiatives and Institutional Roles in the Urban Food Policy of Milan
- Building a Bristol Food City Region from the Grass Roots up: Food strategies, action plans and food policy councils
- Policies Fostering Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the City of Zurich
- Governance Challenges for the Development of Public Green Areas as Edible Landscapes
- Research Priorities for Future Food Systems: A sustainable food systems perspective from Ontario, Canada
- Examining Food Sources in the City of Tamale, Ghana
- FOODMETRES – Metropolitan food planning connecting the local with the global
- FOODMETRES – Case studies from North to South
- Can Local Food Production Reduce Food Imports and Transport? The case of lettuce in Rosario, Argentina
- An Innovative Short Chain in the Netherlands: Willem&Drees
- Edible Landscape: Food and services from common-land use in the Vigo city region
- Short Food Chains in Rome: Context, experiences, policy implications
- Kalnciema Street Quarter in Riga: Food makes the place
- Cultivating the City: Infrastructures of abundance in urban Brazil
- Green Vegetable Supply in Dar es Salaam
- 250,000 Families! Reconnecting urban and rural people for healthier, more sustainable living
- Unlocking La Paz