Abstract
Urban food strategies aim at planning and developing more sustainable, just and resilient urban and city-region food systems, both with the implementation of institutionally driven strategic plans and with the engagement of food activists and actors of the food system. Urban productive landscape is often a key field of action of such policies, that often support and foster short food supply chains and environmentally and socially sustainable urban agriculture. This contribution explores the role of landscape and urban agriculture in the debate about urban food planning and in the practice of a number of existing urban food strategies, mostly in European and Northern American cities. The core idea is that productive landscape can represent at the same time a field for actions aiming at developing a more sustainable urban food system and a useful conceptual framework for the involvement of the actors of the food system in its co-production and co-management.
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Notes
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The strategic policies addressed to the urban food system are defined in different ways, such as urban food policies, urban food strategies, urban food visions, etc. In this chapter, I will always use the definition of Urban Food Policies (UFP), even if the analysed practices sometimes name them differently.
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Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. See: http://www.milanurbanfoodpolicypact.org (accessed 20/20/2018).
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I use the definition of “contemporary urban agriculture” to distinguish those practices of UA that emerged, especially in the Global North, after (sometimes as a reaction to) the global development of the agroindustrial capitalist food system (see Morgan et al. 2006; Wiskerke 2009), from those that historically locally provide food to cities. I want to highlight their nature of aware choice of development an unconventional (even if sometimes strictly institutionally regulated) multifunctional urban foodscape (Tornaghi 2014; McClintock 2014).
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We consider here the more recent 2013 one, approved by the Bristol City Council, while a previous version was released by the Bristol Food Network in 2009.
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An emblematic case is the one of the formerly industrial city of Turin (Italy), where contemporary UA start spreading in the 1960s in interstitial urban spaces—notably along the city riverbanks—mostly practiced by migrants attracted from other regions of Italy by jobs in FIAT car factories. In the last 30 years the creation and management of food producing allotments become one of the main actions of local institutions, joining social and environmental policies (Tecco et al. 2017).
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Pettenati, G. (2019). Urban Agriculture in Urban Food Policies: Debate and Practices. In: Gottero, E. (eds) Agrourbanism. GeoJournal Library, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95576-6_11
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