Reading list

Preparatory reading

IPES, 2021. A long food movement.

Reading for phase 1

FAO Report : "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 18 - 32.

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.

Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)

Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.

Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.

Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology

Background reading

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.

FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en

University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.

Reading for phase 2

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).

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, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321

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.

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.

Background 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

FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3.

Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.

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.