Food Production and Consumption: City Regions between Localism, Agricultural Land Displacement, and Economic Competitiveness

摘要: In the wider debate on urban resilience and metabolism, food-related aspects have gained increasing importance. At same time, agro-food systems in city regions are facing major challenges with regard to often limited domestic supplies, resource-intensive producer–consumer relationships, competition for low-price products via global food chains. this sense, novel methods coupling local processes required better understand underlying mechanisms between above factors. Exploring relationship supply demand, study presents a set of suitable fact-finding tools that introduced applied comparative five European regions. The methodological framework, by introducing combining economic-based indexes, aims at overcoming limits gaps identified means literature review. model will explicitly address main features regional managing information capacities opportunities agriculture adequately respond as well providing insights interconnections among localism, competitiveness agricultural sectors, land use change.