Assignments

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Exercises

Excercise: an example of a persona

Download the template of the exercise here.

  • Select a person that you think contributes to a sustainable transformation in the food system. You just decide who: for instance a consumer who changes diets, a food activist, an urban gardener, a producer, a food retailer, networker.
  • Do a short interview (just phoning, meeting or otherwise) and ask about (1) activities, (2)transformative actions, (3) ambitions and (4) challenges.
  • Make a persona out of this person (see example in slide 3)
  • Fill out slide 2 of this powerpoint, font size 22.
  • Save the slide as an image (jpeg)
  • Post it before March 30 on the padlet: https://padlet.com/geronimo2/bmu8228757e2ldns

During the session on March 31, 2022 we will share our observations

Assignments

Assignment 1: Exploring the field of play

The scope of the food system and the concepts and methods you use

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is your given (provided by your university) or self-selected task (a local case study or living lab relating to a community);
  2. What is the main theme you address for this task: food security, metabolism/circular economy, access to land, food justice, ....
  3. What skills and methods do you already have before the course started to address the assignment (methods of your discipline, personal skills)?
  4. Which methods and concepts that were presented in the first three sessions are suitable for addressing your task?

Reflection: What has changed in your perception by the first lectures?

April 21, 2022: Present your assignment making use of the PowerPoint format to your colleagues and tutors.

Assignment 2 Analysing your local foodscape

This assignment relates mainly to the spatial and organisational aspects of food systems and their communities. Your task is either given by the teacher of your home university or if you are an external learner it can relate to your local food system or the living lab you are working with.

When building upon available data of the mapping of your food system you can make use of these, on the condition that you clearly make reference to the data you use.

The guiding questions are:

  1. Which part of the food system you study and why have you selected this?
  2. What does the food system look like, with its elements, relations and stakeholders (governors, NGOs consumers, retailers, processors, producers)?
  3. What is the role and position of the stakeholders in terms of power and impact?
  4. What are the main challenges in the food system to contribute to the common good?

We would like to see on a map the location and a geographical representation of your food system.

If you are thinking about the scope, the City Region Food System Toolkit of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University (FAO,2018) and Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook of Virginia Tech can help.

Reflection: How did your work process go? Were the methods and tools you used adequate?


Present your assignment making use of the PowerPoint format to your colleagues and tutors.