Roadmaps to Foster Urban Food System Transitions: Multi-level Implementations in Nilüfer, Turkey

Abstract

The ongoing crisis has shown that incumbent food system has been facing challenges. For a resilient and sustainable food system, transitions which shift towards sustainability, attention to public health and wellbeing as well as inclusiveness is compulsory. To overcome these challenges, driving a stepwise policy transformation, responsive and adaptive policy mixes and addressing citizens to drive sustainability are pivotal. This article represents two roadmaps which are designated for Nilüfer, Bursa. The roadmaps aim at including policy headlines/priorities as well as local needs and plural variations of collectivity to ensure a sustainable food system transition. The roadmaps are composed of two scalar levels one of which is macro-level; Nilüfer Food Policy Roadmap while the other is micro-level; Nilüfer Living Lab Roadmap

The Characteristics and Utilization of Pekarangan Pangan Lestari to Achieve Urban Food Security in Depok City, West Java

“…Urban food security has been an interesting issue for discussion in the academic sphere (Dinku et al 2023) because 68% of the population in the world will live in urban areas by 2050, approximately 6 billion (Amorim et al 2019;Mensah, 2023). With projected high population growth living in urban areas, urban food security will become a serious problem for cities (Amorim et al 2019), because global food demand is expected to increase by 59% to 98% in 2050 (Karakaya Ayalp et al 2022). While global food production continues to keep pace with population growth in general, the facts show that the world is not on track to end hunger, achieve food security, and promote sustainable agriculture (Zerbian and Romero, 2023).…”