Food production and consumption : city regions between localism, agricultural land displacement, and economic competitiveness

Monaco, Federica (author), Zasada, Ingo (author), Wascher, Dirk M. (author), Glavan, Matjaž (author), Pintar, Marina (author), Schmutz, Ulrich (author), Mazzocchi, Chiara (author), Corsi, Stefano (author), Sali, Guido (author)

In the wider debate on urban resilience and metabolism, food-related aspects have gained increasing importance. At the same time, urban agro-food systems in city regions are facing major challenges with regard to often limited domestic supplies, resource-intensive producer–consumer relationships, and the competition for low-price products via global food chains. In this sense, novel methods for coupling local and global processes are required to better understand the underlying mechanisms between the above factors. Exploring the relationship between food supply and demand, this study presents a set of suitable fact-finding tools that are introduced and applied in a comparative study of five European city regions. The methodological framework, by introducing and combining economic-based indexes, aims at overcoming limits and gaps identified by means of a literature review. The model will explicitly address the main features of the regional agro-food systems by managing information on the capacities and opportunities of local agriculture to adequately respond to food demand, as well as by providing insights on the interconnections among localism, global competitiveness of agricultural sectors, and land use change.

• Language: English
• Keywords: metropolitan areas, urban agro-food systems, land displacement, economic model, localism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2017
• Number of pages: 20 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 9, iss. 1, art. 96
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131261
• UDC: 633
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su9010096
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8598905
• Publication date in RUL: 24.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 11.01.2017

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: urbano okolje, urbano vrtnarstvo, kmetijstvo, mesta, ekonomski model

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: FP7
• Project number: 312185
• Name: Food Planning and Innovation for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions
• Acronym: FOODMETRES