The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation

Morgan, Kevin; Sonnino, Roberta

doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq007

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“…Furthermore, 26% of children (aged [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and 37% of young people (aged [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] were overweight or obese [103]. Most alarmingly, discretionary foods (often energy rich food and drinks high in saturated fats, sugars and/or salt) contributed 39% of energy intake for children and young people during 2011-2012 [103].…”

Section: Urban Agriculture's Role In Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Section: Urban Agriculture's Role In Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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“…Other new concepts have emerged to connect food production and landscapes, such as for example the Urban/ Local Foodscapes (Morgan and Sonnino, 2010;Sonnino, 2013;Roe, Herlin and Speak, 2016), the Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL), a concept introduced and developed by Viljoen and Bohm (2014) or the Edible (Urban) Landscapes, Foodspace (Parham, 2015) or even the Edible City (de la Salle andHolland, 2010 in Cohen, 2011).…”

Section: Current Urban Agriculture Trends and Concepts: A Challenge Fmentioning

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The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges

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Rojo

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…The president of the university does not have to worry about what students are eating; chefs and administrators do not have to worry about the supply chain and the availability of food; food safety criteria will be met, and prices will be acceptable. Unless there is a new way to talk about food, what Morgan and Sonnino call a "new food equation" [71], the old way will prevail because it is simply easier.…”

Section: Creating Space For Innovation Through Conflict At the Landscmentioning

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The Food For Life Catering Mark: Implementing the Sustainability Transition in University Food Procurement

Stahlbrand

2016

Agriculture

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This article presents a case study of the application of the Soil Association's Food For Life Catering Mark at two universities in England: Nottingham Trent University and University of the Arts London. This procurement initiative has had noteworthy success in the U.K., with more than 1.6 million Catering Mark meals served each weekday. This article, based on 31 in-depth interviews conducted in 2015, is the first to examine its impact and significance at the university level. In particular, this article tests the concepts of the niche, regime and landscape in the multi-level perspective (MLP), a prominent theoretical approach to sustainability transition, against the experience of the Food For Life Catering Mark. The article confirms the importance of the landscape level of the MLP in the food sustainability transition, while adding additional considerations that need to be specified when applying the MLP to the food sector. By highlighting the essential role of civil society organizations (CSOs), public institutions and many champions, this article proposes that more room must be made within the MLP for the explicit role of agency, champions and the implementation process itself. Indeed, this article argues that implementation, the daily practice, is deserving of both increased recognition and theory.

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The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation

Cited by 282 publications

References 6 publications

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges

The Food For Life Catering Mark: Implementing the Sustainability Transition in University Food Procurement

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