The Role and Engagement of Mayors in Local Food Policy Groups: Comparing the Cases of London and Bristol

Halliday, Jess; Barling, David

doi:10.1016/bs.af2s.2018.09.002

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“…For the City Deal, elections were a big challenge but other food policy processes also faced this, such as for the food strategy of Victoria (Caraher et al, 2013) and the Toronto Food Strategy (Mah & Thang, 2013). To create support from elected officials, Halliday and Barling (2018) have several recommendations. One example is identifying ways to institutionalize food policy under a supportive official by taking into account, such as the current official's interest and knowledge of food issues, the degree to which the food agenda corresponds to their priorities, and the likelihood of municipal priorities changing (Halliday & Barling, 2018).…”

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“…To create support from elected officials, Halliday and Barling (2018) have several recommendations. One example is identifying ways to institutionalize food policy under a supportive official by taking into account, such as the current official's interest and knowledge of food issues, the degree to which the food agenda corresponds to their priorities, and the likelihood of municipal priorities changing (Halliday & Barling, 2018).…”

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The potential of trans‐local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems—The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda

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To foster more sustainable food systems, collaboration between local governments for knowledge exchange and cooperation is essential. Trans-local food policy networks potentially serve this purpose but their functioning and outcomes remain largely unexplored. We address this gap by analyzing collaboration and its outcomes for one of the first trans-local food policy networks in the Netherlands: City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda. We use Ansell and Gash's collaborative governance model as an ideal type to analyze the City Deal drawing on two rounds of semi-structured interviews with civil servants and politicians in 2016 and 2019 resulting in a total of 37 interviews with 49 unique respondents. The collaborative process was a continuous searching and negotiating for roles, goals, and activities, on the one hand, combined with great eagerness among participants to collaborate and improve local food systems on the other. Although this process led to collective identity building and learning, it resulted in limited collaborative action between participants or tangible results on the ground. The main outcomes were the active network itself, which fostered the strengthening of connections, exchanging knowledge, learning, and agenda setting.Based on our findings, we identify five key points of attention for successful food policy collaboration: ensuring stakeholder commitment, striking a balance between a sectoral and holistic focus, avoiding too abstract ambitions, fostering interdependence, and investing in political commitment.Abbreviations: LFPG, local food policy group; MUFPP, Milan Urban Food Policy Pact.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The potential of trans‐local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems—The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda

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“…The institutionalization of an urban food policy is a fundamental step to harmonize the multiple instances that come from a fragmented agro-food system and at the mercy of increasingly fluid and financial markets. As recognized in research on the Local Food Policy Groups in Bristol and London [53], local administration support helps to integrate sustainable food-related objectives within policy areas that are under the mayor's direct control. At the same time, mayoral support provides status and legitimacy to food issues.…”

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Rome, a Policy without Politics: The Participatory Process for a Metropolitan Scale Food Policy

Mazzocchi

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2020

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In light of the challenges that all cities face today, food is offered as a prism through which to read and intervene on various areas that affect the quality of life of the population: circular economy, urban metabolism, social relations, economies, and food quality. In the Roman context, in recent years, numerous initiatives have revitalized the debate on food and brought the discussion to the center of the interest of an ever-increasing number of citizens. However, these experiences appear unrelated and there is a lack of coordination and political coherence. Faced with this evidence, starting from a territorial analysis, this contribution analyzes the process that led a local group of stakeholders to formulate a proposal for a food policy for the city of Rome. The proposal contains a series of possible actions that aim, on the one hand, to recompose the relations between the city and its territory, with a view to re-localization and re-territorialization of agro-food productions and, on the other hand, to reconnect the economic and social relations that the industrialization of food chains has compromised. The network analysis of the bottom-up process, which mainly investigates networking and negotiation skills between various interests, is carried out and related to a careful analysis of the food system in the Roman context. Furthermore, an overview of the state of the art of urban food policies in Italy has been provided to better contextualize the study case. The findings show actors and topics involved in the process, identifying further development towards a more comprehensive participatory process for a systemic food strategy at the metropolitan level.

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“…In this way, at times the discussion of urban agriculture is a proxy for debating the future of urban forms, food system resilience, the future of urban governance or the development of new communities of interest, and sometimes it is about urban agriculture. The city of Bristol has become a prominent node in the discussion of urban agriculture because of the vibrant networks of experimentation that are taking place in and around the city, as well as the selfpublicity/reflection those networks generate (Carey, 2013;Halliday and Barling, 2018).…”

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Scientific citizens, smartphones and social media – reshaping the socio-spatial networks of participation: Insects, soil and food

Reed

2020

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The conjunction of citizen science and social media through the mediation of the smartphone is investigated in this Scientific Communication, following on from the last issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports (2019, Vol. 27, No. 4). Through a reconsideration of three previously published articles, in part written by the author, this paper reflects on these topics with regard to farmer innovation, local food networks and citizen-informed ecology. Each of these papers has used Twitter to gather data about practices of innovation and observation that have revealed new insights about innovation networks amongst farmers, urban-rural connections and insect behaviours. The reflections reported here are embedded in a discussion of the rise of the term ‘Citizen Science’. Recent experiences in areas as diverse as fisheries management and combating Ebola, have informed societal needs for greater engagement in finding inclusive, comprehensive solutions to urgent socio-ecological problems. This paper suggests a compositional approach to studies using citizen scientists and their data as a new avenue of practice and investigation.

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The Role and Engagement of Mayors in Local Food Policy Groups: Comparing the Cases of London and Bristol

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

The potential of trans‐local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems—The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda

The potential of trans‐local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems—The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda

Rome, a Policy without Politics: The Participatory Process for a Metropolitan Scale Food Policy

Scientific citizens, smartphones and social media – reshaping the socio-spatial networks of participation: Insects, soil and food

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