This study examines how 16 initiatives across Europe are addressing ‘wicked’ food system issues by mobilising local networks and implementing changes in urban and peri-urban regions. It identifies 6 propelling mechanisms that bring about small wins that could lead to systems change. 

This research finds that urban food policies in the Global North do not meaningfully consider immigrants and their experience of food. It argues many urban food policies promote dominant and nationalist understandings of healthy and sustainable food without recognising immigrants’ food-related knowledge and skills. 

This report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) calls for the strengthening of urban and peri-urban food systems amidst rapidly expanding urbanisation and rural transformation. It provides detailed and context specific policy recommendations to improve food security and nutrition and is guided by the principles of the right to food and the right to the city. 

This book brings together a range of issues in the field of urban food governance, covering the history of the field, its frames, theories and concepts, practices in case studies including the United States, Brazil and Tanzania, different scales and actors, and envisaged futures for urban food governance.

This report and policy brief from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI) examine how urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global South can help provide healthy, safe and nutritious food, and protect against the impacts of climate change and pandemics.

This paper discusses the state of the art in indoor vertical farming systems (VFS) as well as future challenges in areas such as product quality, automation, sustainability and socio-economic context.

This report from the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future addresses a common concern among urban farming communities: is food grown in the city safe to eat? Focusing on Baltimore, it finds that soil, water and produce from the urban farms and gardens studied have safe levels of harmful metals, with some rare exceptions. TABLE staff member Matthew Kessler contributed to this project. 

This book makes the case for an “agroecological urbanism” (urbanism is the study of how people who live in cities and towns interact with the built environment). Chapters cover the foundations of agroecological urbanism, activist methodologies, decolonisation and decommodification of the food system, soil contaminants, urban agroforestry, post-capitalist food sovereignty, and case studies from Italy, Belgium, Mexico, Nicaragua and England.