Urban Agriculture Practice, Policy and Governance

Baker, Louise; Kuhns, James; Nasr, Joe

doi:10.4324/9781003055907-24

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“…We screened out official resolutions or legislative documents related to policy development and documents exclusively dealing with food procurement, food security, and urban agriculture. These consumer‐facing processes and themes take place directly within urban boundaries and municipal jurisdictions and have received extensive research attention and review (e.g., Baker et al., 2022; Baker & de Zeeuw, 2015; Mansfield & Mendes, 2013; Moragues‐Faus & Morgan, 2015). Instead, our study centers around the city‐region food systems perspective, including nearby peri‐urban and rural areas (see Doernberg et al., 2019), to determine the feasibility of more localized food systems and local food production capacity (Schreiber et al., 2021).…”

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Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

Schreiber

Winkler

Abellon

et al. 2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Many North American cities seek to increase access to locally sourced foods. But to what degree are cities planning for and supporting peri‐urban and rural food production? We examined this question by analyzing 25 documents from 22 major United States and Canadian cities (>300,000 residents) with local food strategies or action plans, focusing on social, ecological, and technological factors relevant to local food production. Our review suggests that the following topics are often overlooked: farmland access and quality, farm viability, agricultural training and workforce, environmental and public health, processing infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and particular needs pertinent to those concerns among marginalized groups, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Just under half of the cities defined how success or progress toward reaching their food‐related goals would be monitored and measured. Many municipalities considered collaboration as an important governance tool for realizing their strategies toward local food systems, including with actors from within the city and beyond, as cities’ governance scope, resources, and power are often limited. Besides illustrating ongoing municipal efforts to enhance local food systems, our study identifies focus areas in food policy and planning to avoid overlooking social and environmental trade‐offs in local foodsheds, including potentially overestimating self‐sufficiency capacity.

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Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

Schreiber

Winkler

Abellon

et al. 2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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“…Again, critical research on other forms of urban agriculture offers a valuable starting point here (e.g. Baker et al 2022). These are a just a few of the ways in which CEA may productively link with more mainstream urban themes.…”

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The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?

Marvin,

Rickards,

Rutherford

2023

Urban Studies

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This paper critically examines why urban studies should be interested in the emergence of controlled environment agriculture. Over the last decade, there has been significant commercial and urban policy interest in controlled environment agriculture systems for producing food in enclosed environments. Furthermore, there has been a significant expansion in research publications on urban controlled environment agriculture, stressing the novel character of these systems and the complex relationships with the conventional concerns of urban agriculture. The paper subjects these claims to critical scrutiny and then reconceptualises urban controlled environment agriculture as an emergent urban infrastructure of artificial, highly productive microclimates and ecosystems for non-human life designed to increase the productive use of ‘surplus or under-utilised’ urban spaces. We argue that controlled environment agriculture tries to secure food production through three spatial–temporal fixes: (1) the enclosure move – holding food closer by substituting the increasingly hostile outdoors for the controlled indoors in order to optimise yield, quality, efficiency and the ‘cleanness’ of the food; (2) the urban move – holding food closer to the city by substituting rural agricultural space for urban space to shorten supply chains and thereby help secure food production and improve its green credentials; and (3) combining 1 and 2, the urban interiorisation move – holding food yet closer still by moving food production into city buildings and intricate infrastructural systems, increasing control by securing total environments. In these ways, the paper shows how urban controlled environment agriculture selectively extends existing logics of urban and rural agriculture and identifies the future research challenges for urban studies.

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Tensions in the Governance of Land Resources in Toronto and Brussels

Manganelli

2022

Urban Agriculture

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Urban Agriculture Practice, Policy and Governance

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Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?

Tensions in the Governance of Land Resources in Toronto and Brussels

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