Designing Urban Food Policies

Just out 23 September 2019
In the run-up to the 5th meeting of the signatory cities of the Milan Pact, a scientific book on urban food policies has just been published in English and on open access. It was written by a group of researchers, and is the result of work carried out within the scientific community of the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems.
Designing Urban Food Policies, Springer, 2019

This open-access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments.

The book was written by a group of researchers, and describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urban local government initiatives in the North and South.

It is the result of work carried out within Agropolis International under the Sustainable Urban Food Systems programme and an action research operation in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole for the construction of its agroecological and food policy.

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