Urban and Community Food Strategies. The Case of Bristol

Carey, Joy

doi:10.1080/13563475.2013.750938

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“…which made a strategic case for re-localising food, principally directed at planners (Carey, 2011, Carey, 2013. Our social media analysis illustrates vivid examples of horizontal networking, and the creation of peer-to-peer bonds in public fora within a distinct locality.…”

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The ‘Hungry Gap’: Twitter, local press reporting and urban agriculture activism

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Keech

2017

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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This paper is concerned with how urban food activists related to the media during 2015, when Bristol was the European Green Capital (EGC), how they represented themselves and how others represented their agenda. Our intention is to inform the debates on urban agriculture (UA) and, more specifically, to contribute to discussions about ‘scaling up’ UA. To achieve this, we adopt a form of analysis that rests on Castells’ insights about contemporary protest movements, the media and the role of communication technologies in constituting social power. By using Bristol, a city with a well-developed and studied urban agriculture movement, we suggest new areas for consideration that focus on the importance of communication in the development of the movement. Our study relied only on publicly available data; newspaper reports about the EGC and a sample of the social media used by the urban food networks in the city. We found that the mass media was mainly concerned with reporting topics other than food and that urban food was not a salient issue in their coverage. The Twitter network we analyzed was a loose constellation of different communities, which shared materials that were mostly concerned with creating a shared, normative picture of urban food. By considering the structure of these forms of media, we can observe the assembly of the forms of communication and their content. The paper concludes that the self-representation of urban food networks at that time reveals a narrow focus of interest. This emphasis may have contributed to the lack of connection within the city between potential allies. Our conclusion supports similar research findings in neighboring communities, which have observed the limited connections of urban food networks to the circuits of power and influence.

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The ‘Hungry Gap’: Twitter, local press reporting and urban agriculture activism

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Keech

2017

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“…the Toronto Food Policy Council is embedded within the public health team (Blay-Palmer 2009). Others occupy an independent space outside local government, like the Bristol Food Policy Council which, nonetheless, still involves public sector actors (Carey 2013). Finally, the nature and degree of civic leaders' commitment ranges from explicit mayoral support (as in London), to adoption of a food strategy or motion (as in Manchester), to providing budget or in-kind support such as meeting rooms or officers' participation during working hours.…”

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Cities’ Strategies for Sustainable Food and the Levers They Mobilize

Halliday

2019

Urban Agriculture

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There is a growing realization of cities' vulnerability to the problems posed by the food system that are described in the chapter "Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability". Reliance on globalized supply chains puts food provisioning arrangements at risk from environmental, political or economic disruptions. Cities lack productive space to produce all the food needed to feed their populations (Steel 2008, 2012), yet cities in less developed countries of the Global South will host most of the growth in world population, projected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050 (FAO 2009). Household food insecurity (or food poverty) is a major issue in many cities in developing countries, but incidence has also risen in the Global North, where the long-term effects of the 2008 economic downturn are still felt. Moreover, urban consumers are increasingly disconnected from the origins of their food (see chapter "Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability"), and modern cities are obesogenic environments where calorie-dense/nutritionally-lacking food is cheap and available, but where opportunities for physical activity are limited (Morgan and Sonnino 2010). Consequently, diet-related ill-health has reached epidemic levels. While the capacity of cities to implement food policies has ebbed since the end of the Middle Ages (see chapter "History of Urban Food Policy in Europe, from the Ancient City to the Industrial City"), a small but increasing number of cities around the world are devising policies to address food-related problems or to mitigate their effects. This chapter describes the range of cities' aims in so doing, while drawing on existing literature to develop a broad typology and exploring relations between cities and their hinterlands, since many policies have repercussions that are felt beyond the boundaries of cities or involve external actors. The analysis in this chapter focuses on the levers and instruments that are employed by cities to meet their objectives, with attention to the importance of cross-domain working and determining

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“…Such food system strategies exist for several large cities in North America, e.g., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, as well as for several cities in Canada like Toronto, Seattle and Vancouver. In Europe, cities in the United Kingdom are well represented, e.g., London, Bristol and Manchester (Carey, 2013;Sonnino, 2016). Cities within the Urban network URBACT (2018) such as Lyon and Brussels also have food system strategies in place and in Gothenburg, Sweden, the work is ongoing.…”

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Urban food systems as vehicles for sustainability transitions

Olsson

2018

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Strategies and action plans for sustainable food provisioning and urban food security are in progress in many urban regions both in the global North and South. A number of urgent challenges need to be confronted such as increasing uncertainty and unpredictability related to stronger dependence on a global market for food import, ongoing political unrest and environmental conflicts, increasing resource scarcity and climate warming making food production hazardous. There is an increased vulnerability with respect to food security for human societies, both in developing and developed countries. The food security dimension of access to healthy food is related to equality and poverty and is relevant for cities in the North via the segregation challenges. The food system issue is well-suited for assessing sustainable development since food provisioning is both a multiscale and cross-sectorial issue and thus addresses more than the three dimensions of social, economic and environmental sustainability. How is the planning for sustainable food strategies in urban regions in Europe concordant with the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals and with the transition towards sustainable futures? This paper deliberates on using the food system issues for sustainability transition, drawing on the forthcoming 2018 IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) work on pathways for sustainable futures and a recent survey of existing urban food system strategies. Against this background, some reflections are given relevant for the ongoing work on a local urban food strategy for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Urban and Community Food Strategies. The Case of Bristol

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The ‘Hungry Gap’: Twitter, local press reporting and urban agriculture activism

The ‘Hungry Gap’: Twitter, local press reporting and urban agriculture activism

Cities’ Strategies for Sustainable Food and the Levers They Mobilize

Urban food systems as vehicles for sustainability transitions

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