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Urban food systems

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Aerial picture of urban farming. Credit Joe Hayes via Pexels
Journal articles
“New food cultures” and the absent food citizen: immigrants in urban food policy discourse
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. 
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Report cover from HLPE on urban and peri-urban food systems
Reports
Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems
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. 
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Bob Ring holds a crayfish trap, a black net stretched by a collapsible wire cylinder.
Podcast episode
Eating invasive crayfish - a solution to our ecological mess?
Can you make a living trapping invasive crayfish in London?
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Front cover of the book “Food Justice in American Cities” (2023) with photo of an urban garden with large buildings in the background.
Books
Food justice in America
This book explores food insecurity in urban communities through their stories trying to understand food security, justice, sustainability, and waste moving towards a more just and sustainable economy. 
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Urban agriculture in and around Barcelona: why and how? by Haley Parzonko
Essay
Urban agriculture in and around Barcelona: why and how?
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona is a microcosm of the current international movement towards increasing urban food self-sufficiency, with the aim of promoting both supply chain resilience and social justice. In this blog post, Haley Parzonko reflects on the challenges and opportunities facing the urban agriculture movement in and around Barcelona.
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A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Books
A Research Agenda for Food Systems
This book outlines key issues currently facing the global food system, as well as responses to them, including corporate concentration, the planetary boundaries, food poverty, alternative proteins, urban food systems and circular food systems.
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Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance
Books
Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance
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.
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Elena
Podcast episode
Elena Lazos Chavero on Scale, Seeds and Sovereignty (rebroadcast)
Power dynamics don't only come from the outside, but also exist within local communities.
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Potential of urban and periurban agriculture in the Global South
Reports
Potential of urban and periurban agriculture in the Global South
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.
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