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Sustainable Food Cities Sustainable Food Cities Conference Bristol 12 October 2011

Kevin Morgan School of City and Regional Planning Cardiff University. Sustainable Food Cities Sustainable Food Cities Conference Bristol 12 October 2011. Food moves up the agenda. Food has moved up the political agenda for many reasons: food security is now a national security issue

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Sustainable Food Cities Sustainable Food Cities Conference Bristol 12 October 2011

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  1. Kevin Morgan School of City and Regional Planning Cardiff University Sustainable Food Cities Sustainable Food Cities ConferenceBristol12 October 2011

  2. Food moves up the agenda Food has moved up the political agenda for many reasons: food security is now a national security issue food chain accounts for 31% of EU GHGemissions epidemic of obesity and diet related ill-health food poverty becoming increasingly common food system a prism for land, water, energy, transport and eco-system services local food revolution/place and provenance

  3. Food planning in North America First food planning track in APA history at its national conference in 2005 Over 100 Food Policy Councils been formed at state, city and county levels Big cities loom large in food planning: New York – food and health agenda Seattle – food and sustainability agenda San Francisco – most holistic agenda to date Toronto – innovative Food Policy Council

  4. NYC: Life-Cycle FoodWorks Model

  5. Seattle: holistic goals drive food policy

  6. San Francisco: integrative policy

  7. Toronto Food Policy Council: a pioneer

  8. Food planning in Africa Examples of food planning in Africa include: Urban agriculture: planners are beginning to recognise UA as a legitimate activity in the city, where vendors need better access to resources and more secure user rights (Dar es Salaam/Kampala are the pioneers here) Home-grown school feeding: a radical new model which aims to procure more locally-produced food instead of imported food from the global north

  9. Food planning in Latin America Belo Horizonte (Brazil) is the community food planning capital of Latin America Strong city-wide commitment to food security in a country with strong national policies (Fome Zero, Bolsa Familia) BH targets all stages of the food chain and the most vulnerable citizens (e.g. poorest, children, pregnant women, nursing mothers) BH now dubbed “the city that abolished hunger”

  10. Food planning in Europe Big cities dominate the food planning headlines: Rome – led the school food revolution with its quality food for all London – launched a healthy food plan as part of a sustainable world city strategy Amsterdam – issued an urban food strategy for human health, ecological integrity and to re-connect the city with its countryside But food programmes in these cities have regressed, highlighting the need for political continuity

  11. New urban food actors • Smaller cities now seem to be taking the lead • Malmo, Sweden – food policy as part of broader urban sustainability policy • Bristol, UK – “start to rebuild a food culture for Bristol that has the health of people and planet at heart” • Sustainable food cities are learning-by-interacting with each other, which helps to nourish and sustain one and all

  12. Malmo, Sweden

  13. Malmo: “Eat SMART”

  14. Malmo: leadership by example

  15. Malmo: joined-up policy

  16. Bristol: converging strands . . . . . .

  17. Food System Thinking in Bristol

  18. Food planning: not a done deal

  19. Food as the vehicle for positive change?

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