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The production, transportation, consumption and waste of food has been a “puzzling omission” in urban masterplanning (American Planning Association, introduction, 2007). The need to provide enough food for a growing urban population, which safeguards finite resources and respects the environment, is an urgent challenge.
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Chad is one of the world’s hungriest countries as measured on the International Food Policy Research Institute Global Hunger Map 2015. The 2013 meat adulteration scandal was a scandal in Europe; foods advertised as containing beef were found to contain undeclared or improperly declared horse meat and other meats such as pork.
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Urban farming relates to the new spatial geometry of urbanisation and sustainable settlements in which the city and the countryside are considered as one space.
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The proposed epoch which is defined by the impact that humans are having upon ecological systems.
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Third sector international organisations which work to address inequalities and environmental degradation.
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A Farrells’ Forum sustainable urban food symposium which was given to an interdisciplinary audience of industry partners.
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A UK-based project which works towards resilience against peak oil, economic instability and climate change.
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Practical partnership action by Kenyan Trust Umande with British charity Practical Action.
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https://www.sustainweb.org/foodwaste/the_pig_idea/.
“The most efficient thing to do with food waste is to feed it directly to pigs. Instead we have a hugely inefficient system where pigs are being fed food that humans could otherwise eat.
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United Nation’s Save-Food programme www.save-food.org.
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WRAP is a UK-based non-profit team working to challenge circular economies and resource efficiency. Derambarsh is a Parisian councillor who activated new legislation to stop French supermarket food waste in 2015.
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The steps in delivering safe nutritious food from the field to the urban consumer, the production, processing and marketing, are all interlinked and should mutually strengthen each other.
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Baltimore City, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), produced the 2015 Food Environment Map and Report to draw attention to food access patterns in Baltimore City’s neighbourhoods and to assist with policy development and implementation.
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“By mapping Vancouver’s select physical food assets and correlating them with population density, we can begin to gain a better picture of how access to food assets may vary across different parts of the city.”
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Farrell, B. (2017). A Place for Food Within Sustainable Urban Masterplanning. In: Bishop, J. (eds) Building Sustainable Cities of the Future. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54458-8_7
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