Food Sovereignty: A Nirvana Concept for Swiss Urban Agriculture?

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Organisational troubles in policy integration. French local food policies in the making

“…Indeed, several groups of actors with radically different political agendas may coexist in the same subsystem. For instance, addressing food production with only dominant actors of agricultural subsystem can lead to narrowing the scope of the food policy (Mumenthaler et al, 2020;Pahun, 2020). Moreover, taking the environmental or social impacts of the food system into consideration cannot be guaranteed solely by the diversity of stakeholders and the intensity of their interactions, whether they are in one subsystem or divided among different ones.…”