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Growing Resilience: Feeding the city in challenging times

Growing Resilience: Feeding the city in challenging times

This essay collection from Dutch food innovation centre Flevo Campus discusses how the food system can become more resilient, bearing in mind the important events of 2020, including Brexit, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resourcing an agroecological urbanism

Resourcing an agroecological urbanism

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.

Water seedlings in a raised garden bed. Photo by Jonathan Kemper via Unsplash.

City Region Food Systems – Part II – Who Will Farm?

In this piece, Mike Hamm continues his thread on urban food systems, expanding into the nuances of production.This post is written by Michael W. Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University and Director of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems. Mike is also a Visiting Fellow of Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an FCRN network member.

Highways crossing over an urban park. Photo by Denys Nevozhai via Unsplash.

City Region Food Systems – Part I – Conceptualization.

In this piece, FCRN-member Professor Michael Hamm discusses a number of contested issues linked to the challenges posed by growing urbanisation. This is the first in a short series of postings by Mike in which he explores the value of city-region food systems, obstacles to their development, and possible ways forward. Read the following parts in the blog-series by following these links: Part II – Who Will Farm?, Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy and finally Part IIIB - Scale and Production Strategy.This post is written by Michael W. Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University and Director of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems. Mike is also a Visiting Fellow of Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an FCRN network member.

Appetite for change

Appetite for Change: social, economic, and environmental transformations in China’s food system

This report provides a detailed and integrative analysis of the dramatic changes in China’s food system over the last 35 years, and explores the linkages among the environmental, health, economic and cultural trends that are emerging.