Reading list
Preparatory reading
Compulsory
- 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
- IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note
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
IPES-Food, 2021. A long food movement.
Background reading
Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.
Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.
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
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
UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool
website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems
Background reading
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103
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
Jeroen J. L. Candel (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
Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.
David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)
Background reading
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.