Tools for food system change

Santini, Guido; Dubbeling, Marielle; Blay-Palmer, Alison

doi:10.4324/9780429439896-9

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“…In the long term, the CRFS approach can help establish a participatory platform to define policies, interventions, and mechanisms of territorial governance for food system transformation, and reinforce cooperation and collaboration among different governments and other actors, which is a key element to build resilience of local food systems. In support of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and the SDGs, through its application in small, medium, and large city regions, the CRFS is an approach that can help nourish more people in the world, protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, and care for the planet [6,7]. What follows are insights from across the world about lessons learned and opportunities city regions have and can capture by applying the CRFS approach either on their own or as part of CRFS projects [4,8,9].…”

Section: City Region Food System Literature Reviewmentioning

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City Region Food Systems: Building Resilience to COVID-19 and Other Shocks

Blay-Palmer

Santini

Halliday³

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper reviews the contribution a City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach makes to regional sustainability and resilience for existing and future shocks including climate change. We include both explicit interventions under United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-RUAF) led initiatives, as well as ad hoc efforts that engage with elements of the CRFS approach. To provide context, we begin with a literature review of the CRFS approach followed by an overview of the global food crisis, where we outline many of the challenges inherent to the industrial capital driven food system. Next, we elaborate three key entry points for the CRFS approach—multistakeholder engagement across urban rural spaces; the infrastructure needed to support more robust CRFS; system centered planning, and, the role of policy in enabling (or thwarting) food system sustainability. The pandemic raises questions and provides insights about how to foster more resilient food systems, and provides lessons for the future for the City Region Food System approach in the context of others shocks including climate change.

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Section: City Region Food System Literature Reviewmentioning

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City Region Food Systems: Building Resilience to COVID-19 and Other Shocks

Blay-Palmer

Santini

Halliday³

et al. 2021

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“…Numerous approaches are currently used to map food systems, including participatory (Alarcon et al, 2017;Ahmed et al, 2019;Jacobi et al, 2019;Terdoo and Feola, 2021), qualitative (Batista et al, 2021), and quantitative methods. Geospatial methods frequently involve the use of geographic information systems (GIS)-based mapping software (McEntee and Agyeman, 2010;Kremer and DeLiberty, 2011;Widener et al, 2011;Jensen and Orfila, 2021), spatial analysis, and visualization including internet-based geospatial tools such as Google Earth, ArcGIS Open Data, and ArcGIS Storymap, and guides such as FAO's City Region Food System (CRFS) programme (Meenar, 2017;Blay-Palmer et al, 2018;Santini et al, 2018;Posthumus et al, 2021). In addition to static representations, geospatial analytic approaches can also be employed to analyze and communicate geospatial changes over time.…”

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Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South

Liddy,

Mowlds,

McKeown

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The world’s food systems are rapidly changing due to socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic changes, globalization, and urbanization. Urban regions connect urban food consumption with rural food production and are associated with rapid dietary transitions in developing counties. Despite urbanization being a key driver of city-regional and global food system transformations, city-regional food systems (particularly in developing countries) are under-researched. Although the importance of dynamic urban and peri-urban food systems has led to new frameworks and approaches for mapping food flows within urban regions, our study highlights both opportunities and limitations to food mapping in high-growth city regions in the Global South. We review existing approaches to food mapping using three contrasting city-regional food systems as case studies, namely, Bahir Dar (Ethiopia), Hanoi (Vietnam), and Cali (Colombia), and identify priorities for future progress. These include temporal dimensions of food access; nutritional outcomes of food flows; economic, cultural, and ethnic factors affecting consumer behavior; and how consumption of healthier foods could be enabled by decision-making throughout food supply chains. In addition, the roles of food loss and waste could also be more specifically considered. We conclude that providing a more comprehensive and nutrition-sensitive understanding of city-regional food systems can guide evidence-based interventions and activities to enable transitions to healthier, equitable, and more sustainable urban food systems.

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Tools for food system change

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City Region Food Systems: Building Resilience to COVID-19 and Other Shocks

City Region Food Systems: Building Resilience to COVID-19 and Other Shocks

Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South

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