region: Europe
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24 Recipes for urban food challenges
RUAF documented 24 case studies on urban food policy in the Netherlands (in Dutch). The so-called “recipe book” is a result of the City Deal Food on the Urban Agenda an initiative of 12 municipalities, the province of Gelderland and 3 national Ministries. Each case deals with a specific problem in the food system. Four…
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Policy brief: The role of private sector in city region food systems
The policy brief highlights six policy pointers on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.
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Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda
On 26 January 2017, 12 Dutch cities, the Province of Gelderland and 3 national Ministries jointly signed the Urban Agenda on Food, with the objective to strengthen the Dutch food system together with the private sector, knowledge institutes and societal organisations. The partners will specifically work on four themes: 1) Governance innovation; 2) Ecological and economic sustainability innovation; 3) Regional…
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Food policy review for the Municipality of Ede (The Netherlands)
From December 2016 to February 2017, RUAF supported the Municipality of Ede with an external assessment of their municipal food policy which has been implemented for the past 2 years. Part of this policy development review included learning from other cities. Therefore, on the 15th of December 2016 the Dutch food team of Ede visited…
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Interview with Henk Renting on urban food policies and food movements
Henk Renting of RUAF Foundation was interviewed by Wayne Roberts on urban food policies and food movement building.
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European case studies on Governance of Territorial Food Systems
This report was developed in the context of GouTer, a 3-year research-action project. It contains 12 European city case studies on food system governance.
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The role of private sector in city region food systems
This study serves as a starting point to enhance private sector engagement to build more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.
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Private sector engagement in the city region food system in Rotterdam
This study on Rotterdam contributes to a better understanding of how different types of private sector players can shape a city region food system.
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Reshaping the food system: what cities can do
A TEDx presentation by Joy Carey talking about the need to rethink our food systems and how the consequences of continuing with ‘business as usual’ impact on cities. She calls for alternatives to the current global food systems and how action at a city level can influence positive change, taking Bristol as an example.