The consumption of goods and services can be a driver of environmental and social impacts
around the world. Understanding the role that the different levels of government can play in …

In order to foster a transition of the food system toward more sustainable outcomes, scholars
have increasingly pointed at the need for organizing strengthened food democracy. By …

This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility of the evolving City Region
Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows of resources—food …

An emerging literature recognizes cities as the optimal scale for food policy innovation,
pointing to their pervasive emphasis on the adoption of a systemic approach to address the …

Cities around the world face new challenges of food security, and are developing urban food
policies. Their objective is to integrate hunger problems with the aims of a food system …

This article elaborates how consumers engage with global socioecological issues on an
everyday basis through adopting local lifestyles that comprise both consumption and …

Abstract Drawing upon Urban Political Ecology and recent developments around place-
based approaches to food security, this article examines how various urban food coalitions …

This paper investigates the emerging importance of food and Urban Agriculture in the city of
Rotterdam. In particular these themes are the focus of two policy documents recently …

Why do people get involved in community gardens? What are their motivations? 207 How, to
what extent, and under which conditions does community gardening promote the …

Alternative food networks (AFNs) encounter governance challenges stemming from their
own organizational growth pains and their search for cultivable land, but also from their …