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[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.] | [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.] | ||
Important for engaging local communities through participatory problem-solving techniques. This reading supports learning objectives related to participatory learning, research methods, and collaborative goal setting. | |||
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.] | [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.] | ||
Explains how to implement living labs for participatory research and innovation and helps participants understand their role in food systems transformation and how to engage communities and stakeholders effectively. | |||
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape] | Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape] provides insights into the design and infrastructure of urban food systems. It supports understanding the spatial dimensions of food systems and the role of planners in creating productive urban landscapes. | ||
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en | FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en | ||
Helps participants understand the policy context and frameworks that guide urban food systems, aligning with understanding sustainable food planning concepts. | |||
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.] | IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.] offers a nuanced examination of the various approaches to achieving sustainable food systems by exploring the complex landscape of global policy and funding. The report underscores the distinctions and overlaps between agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions, highlighting how these frameworks are represented and supported in international discourse. | ||
[https://sarep.ucdavis.edu/fs/assessment/community-food-system-resources University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.] | |||
* supports analyzing specific food initiatives and engaging local communities, aligning with understanding local and regional settings of food systems and developing collaborative techniques. | |||
* focuses on fostering sustainable food systems by supporting projects that improve access to healthy, affordable food, enhance food security, and build resilient local economies. | |||
[https://www.agroecologicalurbanism.org/building-blocks/ Website with the building blocks of an Agroecological Urbanism.] | [https://www.agroecologicalurbanism.org/building-blocks/ Website with the building blocks of an Agroecological Urbanism.] | ||
Revision as of 08:14, 13 June 2024
Preparatory reading
Compulsory
This report aims to motivate city officials and their technical teams, urban planners and related professionals to view food as central to a truly systemic approach, and to contribute to the understanding of the different factors involved in the inclusion of food in all urban planning efforts. The book presents cases and examples from all over the world. The introduction highlights serious challenges that planners need to address. We advise to read Chapter 1 Food and urban planning The missing link, page 18 - 32.
- FAO Report : "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 18 - 32.
- IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary
Background information
Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.
The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals
PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.
Reading for phase 1
Compulsory reading
Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291. This article helps participants understand urban food justice issues and introduces the concept a politics of empowerment. Underlines the importance for reflecting on personal values and competencies and addressing inequalities within food systems.
Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.
This chapter explores the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological urbanism, providing theoretical insights into sustainable food planning. It helps participants understand the role of agroecology in urban planning.
IPES-Food, 2021. A long food movement. Addresses global challenges and opportunities for transforming food systems towards sustainability. This comprehensive report emphasizes the urgent need to overhaul current food systems to address pressing issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and public health concerns. It outlines a vision for a sustainable food future, where long-term planning and grassroots movements play key roles.
Background reading
Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities. Important for engaging local communities through participatory problem-solving techniques. This reading supports learning objectives related to participatory learning, research methods, and collaborative goal setting.
Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs. Explains how to implement living labs for participatory research and innovation and helps participants understand their role in food systems transformation and how to engage communities and stakeholders effectively.
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape provides insights into the design and infrastructure of urban food systems. It supports understanding the spatial dimensions of food systems and the role of planners in creating productive urban landscapes.
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en Helps participants understand the policy context and frameworks that guide urban food systems, aligning with understanding sustainable food planning concepts.
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces. offers a nuanced examination of the various approaches to achieving sustainable food systems by exploring the complex landscape of global policy and funding. The report underscores the distinctions and overlaps between agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions, highlighting how these frameworks are represented and supported in international discourse.
- supports analyzing specific food initiatives and engaging local communities, aligning with understanding local and regional settings of food systems and developing collaborative techniques.
- focuses on fostering sustainable food systems by supporting projects that improve access to healthy, affordable food, enhance food security, and build resilient local economies.
Website with the building blocks of an Agroecological Urbanism.
Reading for phase 2
Compulsory reading
Recommended and Background reading
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)
Further reading:
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/ - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3.
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.
Reading for phase 3
Compulsory reading
FAO/RUAF – A Vision for City Region Food Systems – Building Sustainable and Resilient City Regions.
website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems
Recommended reading
UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool https://issuu.com/unhabitat/docs/visioning_as_participatory_planning_tool
Arnstein, Sherry R. 1969. ʺA Ladder of Citizen Participationʺ, Journal of American Institute of Planners, n°35/4.
Cohen, N., R.T. Ilieva, « Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City », Food Policy, vol. 103, 2021.
IPES-Food, « What makes urban food policy happen – Insights from five case studies », June 2017.
Background reading
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67
Candel, Jeroen J.L. (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490
RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.
Reading for phase 4
Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711
Compulsory reading
Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge. Only Chapter 1 is compulsory reading: page 1 - 24.
Wissmann, A et.al, The Policy Environment for Sustainable City Region Food Systems, 2022.
Background reading
Reference on prototyping on Publicatie Open Ruimte Platform This booklet in Dutch refers to strategy and prototyping, it presents 10 years of work within the ‘open space platform’ in Flandres. The publication is in Dutch but is visually appealing. Some of the prototyping methodologies have also been tested in the context of the Brabantstad Atelier of the Rotterdam Biennale. This publication is available in English.
This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.
David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)
Reading for phase 5
Compulsory reading
Background reading
The Rainbow Framework can help you plan an M&E activity by prompting you to think about each of these tasks in turn, and select a combination of methods and processes that cover all tasks involved. You might also choose an approach, which is a pre-packaged combination of methods.
The range of tasks are organised into seven colour-coded clusters that aim to make it easy for you to find what you need: Manage, Define, Frame, Describe, Understand Causes, Synthesise, and Report & Support Use.