Preparing Future Food System Planning Professionals and Scholars: Reflections on Teaching Experiences

Mendes, Wendy Berry; Nasr, Joe; Beatley, Timothy; Born, Branden; Bouris, Kristina; Campbell, Marcia Caton; Kaufman, Jerome L.; Lynch, Barbara; Pothukuchi, Kami; Wekerle, Gerda R.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2011.021.022

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“…Much as in the fracking industry, “the range of issues and geographies points to the central significance of globalization in food system issues, while the issues still often remain firmly rooted in the immediate concerns of people’s home communities” (Mendes and Nasr 2011, 19). Planning for more sustainable, local and regional food systems requires more attention to a host of issues in rural as well as urban areas.…”

Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydraulic Fracturing

Pothukuchi

Arrowsmith

Lyon

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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Food system and energy planners have given scant attention to the impacts on agrifood systems of a particular form of energy production—fracking—and its implications for planning and regulation. Impacts include those related to water availability and quality; land quality, use, and value; wildlife; labor costs; infrastructure and services; and the implications of boom and bust dynamics of these for the sustainability of agriculture and food systems. Planning is challenged by competing frames of economic and environmental benefits, lack of capacity, power imbalances, and sometimes state policy. This review maps research on these linkages, identifies elements of successful planning, and offers directions for future research.

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Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydraulic Fracturing

Pothukuchi

Arrowsmith

Lyon

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…Despite these promising developments, food-systems planning remains far from mainstream planning education. Universities can play a key role by developing and improving food-systems planning education, especially by offering studios on community food-systems planning/policy change (Mendes & Nasr, 2011). Planning studios, often required in planning programs, are a longstanding pedagogical tradition in the United States and globally.…”

Section: Engaging In Food-systems Planning and Policy Through Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Engaging in these planning/policy efforts, however, places a burden on university constituents, especially early-career faculty. Early-career, tenure-track faculty are penalized because engaging in foodsystems planning requires significant time (Mendes et al, 2011). Furthermore, as many earlycareer faculty members have discovered, civic engagement in food-planning processes or development of food-systems plans, with no attendant or subsequent journal publications, is typically not recognized as peer-reviewed scholarship during tenure review.…”

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Planning for Food Systems: Community-University Partnerships for Food-Systems Transformation

Whittaker

Clark

SanGiovannni

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MUJ

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The United Nations estimates that by 2050, more than 66% of the world's population will live in urban areas. In the face of continuing urbanization, how will communities meet the fundamental need for good food? What kinds of public policies, structures, and systems will ensure equitable and just access to food? We argue that urban universities have a responsibility and an extraordinary opportunity to help create equitable community food systems by amplifying community-led planning and policy to strengthen such systems. Drawing on case studies involving the University at Buffalo State University of New York system and its community partners, we describe the ways in which community-university partnerships can leverage policy change to support stronger food systems. We conclude with lessons for such partnerships: the importance of building lasting relationships for policy change, shoring up community capacity, understanding the benefits and burdens for universities and communities, and reimagining universities' responsibilities to their regions.

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“…This coincides with a growing urbanization movement that saw the progressive disappearance of local farms and a reduced and more distant position of food in the urban systems, with a growing control exerted by corporate organizations [7]. A renewed interest of planners, policy makers, entrepreneurs and civil society over the past 20 years has intersect into a shared vision on the need to materialize sustainable solutions, revealing in food a growing topic of research and policy making [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. This paper aims to shed light on the possible interconnections presented for urban planning to forge sustainable urban systems, in the integration of food systems analysis in the urban agenda and planning research.…”

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Sustainable urban food districts (SUFD): Strategical spatial planning in urban food systems. An analysis to the Toronto food strategy policy

Guerrero¹

2019

Integr Food Nutr Metab

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The recognition of a historical absence on urban food systems analysis by the academia, incentivized new discussion on planners and food activist only over the past 15 years. The predominant belief on food as an agricultural and rural issue, has fostered its detachment from the urban agenda, filling the gap with predominant market driven strategies. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive vision on the food system organization in urban areas, analysing the need to integrate it into a broader urban strategy and strategical spatial planning. The challenges and opportunities it portrays the need to consolidate competitive and sustainable solutions for an increasing urban population and their connected social challenges. Thus, comprehended into a broader spectrum of issues of public concern such as health, social justice, economic prosperity, social cohesion, food security, culture, waste management and ecological integrity. The paper includes the analysis of a case study, the Toronto Food Strategy as a recognition of the role urban planners could play to forge policies towards more sustainable food systems.Guerrero SFB (2019) Sustainable urban food districts (SUFD): Strategical spatial planning in urban food systems. An analysis to the Toronto food strategy policy

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Preparing Future Food System Planning Professionals and Scholars: Reflections on Teaching Experiences

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic Fracturing

Planning for Food Systems: Community-University Partnerships for Food-Systems Transformation

Sustainable urban food districts (SUFD): Strategical spatial planning in urban food systems. An analysis to the Toronto food strategy policy

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