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Sustainable food planning: evolving theory and practice

New book: Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice

Half the world’s population is now urbanised and cities are assuming a larger role in debates about the security and sustainability of the global food system. Hence, planning for sustainable food production and consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. The rapid growth of [...]

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Working Groups on ‘Civic Food Networks’ at conferences ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’, IFSA 2012 and IRSA 2012

As follow-up of the successful Working Group on “New Forms of Consumer Engagement in Food Networks: Diversity, Mechanisms & Dynamics” that was held at the ESRS Conference in Chania, Crete last August 2011 (see previous entry on this blog) we have organized Working Groups on similar topics at different scientific events in the coming year. [...]

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Street food – New discussion on FSN Forum

An interesting discussion forum about issues of food security and nutrition is the FSN forum hosted by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN. In the past years many topics relevant to PUREFOOD and FOODLINKS have been discussed, such as the ones on ‘Public procurement of agricultural good’, ‘Food, agriculture & cities’, ‘Climate change [...]

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Consumer driven food networks, notes from the ESRS conference (6)

Consumer driven food networks are differently named and organised in every country. At the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) conference we saw many types and forms passing by in the working groups within the theme Food networks and supply chains. GAS groups in Italy, AMAPs in France, CSA’s and Community food co-ops in the [...]

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