Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting Inclusive, Transformational City Region Food Systems

摘要: This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility evolving City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows resources—food, waste, people, knowledge—from rural peri-urban urban back again, policies process needed enable sustainability. reflects on (1) CRFS merits compared other approaches; (2) operational potential applying existing projects through case analysis; (3) how make more robust ways further operationalize approach; (4) for address complex challenges including integrated governance, territorial development, metabolic flows, climate change. The begins with rationale as both conceptual framework an integrative approach, it helps build increasingly coherent transformational food systems. is differentiated from approaches understand context gaps in theory practice. We then explore strength building blocks ‘food systems’ ‘city-regions’ appropriate, or not, pressing challenges. As multi-stakeholder, sustainability-building process, provides collective voice actors across scales could provide coherence jurisdictions, policies, scales, Milan Urban Policy Pact, Sustainable Development Goals, Habitat III New Agenda, Conference Parties (COP) 21. responds directly calls literature practical framing policy wide engagement sectors that enables co-construction relevant frame can be enacted sufficiently programs achieve sustainable