Feeding the City: Towards a New Research and Planning Agenda

摘要: In an era when, for the first time in history, more than half of human population is urbanized, cities both developed and developing countries are facing enormous challenges terms food security. this context, municipal governments New York, Rome, Belo Horizonte, Toronto, London, Amsterdam Dar es Salaam devising integrated policies strategies that move beyond traditional focus on urban agriculture. A brief analysis these emerging initiatives highlights need a new research agenda public provisioning policy-making at level. Practically, paper argues, broadened crucial to facilitate much needed processes knowledge-building knowledge-exchange within between cities. Theoretically, as concludes, comparative comprehensive studies necessary fully capture potential fast-growing creating or recreating sustainable social,...