Sustainable urban food districts (SUFD): Strategical spatial planning in urban food systems. An analysis to the Toronto food strategy policy

Guerrero, Sebastian Felipe Burgos

doi:10.15761/ifnm.1000257

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“…These trends, already seen in other countries and continents, had a particular emergence in the first decade of 2000 [8,20], continue to rapidly expand to date [5,21,22]. However, the way these initiatives are described and disseminated does not always allow for distinguishing those that emerged from a spontaneous bottom-up community based on a more social and activist nature, developed at the individual or community scale and closely associated with practices in the field of urban agriculture [23], from other generated predominantly on a top-down formats related to the promotion of food self-sufficiency of a given urban population based on a spatial planning logic [24] in the peri-urban or urban-rural context.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…The methodology that comported the third objective of the research for the conceptualization of the food strategy model started from reviewing the theoretical and conceptual principles stated in literature, regarding the urgency to endure food transition in a global change scenario [18,22,40,47,59] combined with the result of the principles established by the network over phase 2 [60] and the preliminary debate entailed within the network, especially with the two regional coordination institutions, the Coordination and Regional Development Commission of Lisbon and Tagus Valley (CCDRLVT, the public entity that coordinates regional development and spatial planning policies) and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML, the public entity that represents the 18 municipalities with the same administrative region name) that have a special role on its implementation and further development in the framework of the regional public policies.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the context of global change, food supply of cities is probably one of the key topics to be considered in agri-food policies and urban strategies worldwide [18,20,22,33,34]. By 2050, the area required to feed the world's population will have to increase by about 70% relative to the area used in 2010.…”

Section: Contextualising the Food Transition In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alongside the definition and implementation of food strategies, one of the most expedient ways to mitigate the impacts of the food system on the environment is through dietary change towards increased vegetarianism and veganism at the expense of meat and dairy consumption [22,36]. To this end, a healthy diet of universal reference consists largely of the consumption of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and unsaturated oils; includes a low to moderate amount of seafood and poultry; none or a low amount of red meat, processed meat, added sugar, refined grains and starchy vegetables.…”

Section: Contextualising the Food Transition In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another upper level of complexity is the ambition to relate a food strategy and food planning processes to the spatial planning instruments within the public policy arena [5,16]. This is where the regional scale arises as an intermediation of national and local territorial dimensions to facilitate the establishment of a food systemic vision [31], the application of an intersectoral approach and opens the opportunity for the constitution of an effective institutional cooperation [22,28] where bottom-up and top-down initiatives may interlink on a collaborative basis to operate the envisioned food transition in the city region.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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FoodLink—A Network for Driving Food Transition in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Oliveira

2022

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The territory that currently corresponds to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) has historically supplied fresh food to the urban population until half way through the 20th century. In 2018, the land use was still composed 38% of agricultural area, supplying 12% of the total food produced and consumed in Portugal. However, the operation of this food system is not subject to any regulations either in terms of spatial planning or land use management and, as such, its impact on sustainability transition in the region is not yet properly known. How to drive food transition in the LMA has thus arisen as a prominent question. In 2019, within a living lab context, the first steps were taken to this very challenging pathway, in which the definition of a food strategy was identified as the priority to sow the seeds of a food planning process. Over the last three years a food network started to operate on a collaborative basis to co-define a set of long-term objectives, a vision for 2030 and a collaborative biannual action plan. This article describes the process on how FoodLink—Network for the Food Transition in the LMA—leveraged the foundations to set up an evidence-based food strategy in the metropolitan area and how its thirty members became committed to cooperating in a science–policy–practice interface for its elaboration. According to principles of action–research and citizen science that implied a direct observation and involvement of the author along the entire process, the results intend to respond to the three objectives of the research by: (i) contributing to the literature on food networks; (ii) describing how the networking process occurred and its main achievements in what concerns a committed action plan; (iii) presenting the first baseline to pursue a food strategy towards the food planning of the city-region. It is understood that these results on how the food transition process is being driven in the LMA may either be inspiring for the construction of similar initiatives in other city regions, within and outside Europe, or may constitute the referential starting point for the future assessment of this ongoing transdisciplinary process.

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