Sustainability and Food: A Text Analysis of the Scientific Literature

Fabbrizzi, Sara; Maggino, Filomena; Marinelli, Nicola; Menghini, Silvio; Ricci, Cecilia; Sacchelli, Sandro

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.077

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“…The topic of sustainable food systems has expanded from food production (issues in agriculture) to also include also topics regarding food consumption (global issues, diet, nutrition) [9], highlighting the role of dietary habits as drivers towards sustainable lifestyles [52]. Such a shift has led to society actively engaging in the definition and achievement of sustainability.…”

Section: The Need For a Bottom-up Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such a shift has led to society actively engaging in the definition and achievement of sustainability. Therefore, understanding the perceptions and values of stakeholders can support the identification of relevant aspects of sustainability [9,53]. Bottom-up processes can reinforce the development of policies and actions that are supported and shared by the community [54], thereby enhancing governance and integrating citizens as being co-responsible and co-creators of a "collaborative development" [9].…”

Section: The Need For a Bottom-up Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, understanding the perceptions and values of stakeholders can support the identification of relevant aspects of sustainability [9,53]. Bottom-up processes can reinforce the development of policies and actions that are supported and shared by the community [54], thereby enhancing governance and integrating citizens as being co-responsible and co-creators of a "collaborative development" [9]. In the case of UFP, Gasperi et al [55] unveiled the conflicting top-down and bottom-up implementation processes of urban agriculture in vacant areas in the city of Bologna (Italy), where top-down projects were not participatory and resulted in unsuccessful initiatives that did not respond to community expectations and needs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In particular, UFP has sprouted up around cities of developed countries seeking the enhancement of urban food security and social justice as well as the mitigation of the environmental burden associated with urbanization and globalized consumption [4][5][6][7][8]. More specifically, awareness of the entire food supply-chain has recently increased, with local food production gaining relevance in the sustainable development agenda of cities [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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Urban Food Production (UFP) initiatives are expanding worldwide to enhance urban food production while contributing to the development of sustainable cities in a three-bottom perspective (environment, society, economy). Although the sustainability aspects of UFS have been addressed in the literature, there is a need to set a sustainability framework for UFP based on the concepts and the understanding of the stakeholders as a basis for quantifying their sustainability and for developing effective policy-making. This paper evaluates the concepts of the UFP sustainability from a stakeholders' perspective through participatory methods and network analyses. Two different workshops were organized in the city of Bologna (Italy), where mind-mapping exercises to define the environmental, economic and social sustainability elements of UFP were performed. This bottom-up approach unveiled a comprehensive and complex vision of sustainable UFP, the relevance of certain sustainability elements and key aspects to take into consideration for the development of UFP and effective policy-making. The existence of bidimensional and tridimensional concepts indicated priorities, synergies and trade-offs among the dimensions of sustainability. The multi-scalar nature of UFP suggested that specific policies can be supported by global schemes (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals) and that UFP can be a local tool for democracy and equity at lower scales.

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Section: The Need For a Bottom-up Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Need For a Bottom-up Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Need For a Bottom-up Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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“…This would take the form of products of proximity, since FS seeks to uphold local farming production. SF is an activity that fulfils the requirements of proximity, ecological, high-quality, and value-added agriculture, which then favors FS in the framework of sustainable local and regional development [79].…”

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Could Social Farming Be a Strategy to Support Food Sovereignty in Europe?

Tulla

Vera

2019

Land

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Food sovereignty (FS) aims to obtain value-added products in proximity agriculture (PA) in order to achieve food security in a country. Social farming (SF) can help to develop this PA as well as favoring integration of people at risk of social exclusion (RSE). The methodology includes a review of the literature, a survey of 161 SF projects in Catalonia, and ten selected in-depth interviews. “Social Return on Investment” (SROI) methodology is also applied to assess the efficiency of the projects analyzed. The results show the economic, social, and environmental viability of the majority of the SF projects which, also favored by FS and PA, allows the development of innovative experiences and sustainable forms of governance. SF has been carried out in different ways in European countries, although with the common aims of benefitting people at RSE, and using the natural environment and PA through projects basically promoted by Third Sector entities. Management of these projects is in the hands of foundations and non-profit companies making top-down decisions, and in cooperatives and associations, where decision-making is bottom-up. It can be concluded that the promotion of SF can favor PA, and therefore, FS in Europe.

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Sustainable urban development: Can the balanced scorecard contribute to the strategic management of sustainable cities?

Neiva

Ramaswamy

Amorim

et al. 2021

Sustainable Development

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This article aims to present, adapt, and propose the use of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a tool to support strategic management for sustainable cities. To achieve this goal, publications and 27 sustainable cities projects were also consulted, through project reports and programs from the cities themselves on the topic were consulted. A text mining analysis was applied to the results obtained in this literature review to find the main factors related to sustainable cities. To evaluate the findings of this first stage, consultations with specialists were carried out, specifically to assess the main factors. Based on the previous steps, and based on the original BSC, an adaptation of the tool was proposed, where its structure was changed to meet the needs of the strategic management of sustainable cities. It was concluded that creating a sustainable city requires understanding the difficulties faced by urban center managers with the implementation and management of institutional sustainable development practices. The BSC for sustainable cities can assist as a viable management strategic tool to more efficient use of resources in order to develop sustainable cities.

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Sustainability and Food: A Text Analysis of the Scientific Literature

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Could Social Farming Be a Strategy to Support Food Sovereignty in Europe?

Sustainable urban development: Can the balanced scorecard contribute to the strategic management of sustainable cities?

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