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Planning for Diverse Food Systems

Explore the tensions and challenges in planning diverse food systems in terms of production, place, and politics. Understand categories and their impact on local planning, as well as the conflicts and opportunities in agricultural and food systems. Delve into the complex nature of production, processing, and distribution, and the expectations placed on land use categorizations. Join Dr. Andrew Butt in this thought-provoking exploration.

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Planning for Diverse Food Systems

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  1. Production, Place and Politics: planning and the tensions of diverse food systems • Dr. Andrew Butt • Department of Social Inquiry • Community Food Hubs – August 2016

  2. Thinking about the food, rurality, urbanity and agriculture • For planning systems, categories matter… • Rural, agricultural • Peri-urban, suburban • Farming, lifestyle, industry and foodbowl • Community, industry, environment • Productivism, hyper-productivism and post-productivism

  3. “Whether or not they are faithful depictions of actually existing socio-spatial processes is one set of analytical considerations. But an equally important analytical task is to understand why these categories matter and how they are deployed in the repetitious work of government” (Roy, 2015: 5)

  4. What is agricultural? What is a food system? • Categories matter for local planning… • Food Localism as a ‘problem’ or an opportunity? • Impacts of scale can be managed, but through ‘post-political’ methods (ie. shutting down debate, creating ‘certainty’) Where is the space for contest and politics? • Complex systems of production, processing and distribution, even at small-scale, defy simple definition and engender conflict • Land use categorisations depict community and bureaucratic expectations

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