Bridging food commons and planning: exploring a dialogue between consumer cooperatives and socio-spatial strategies in Istanbul
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2016
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Emerging trends regarding the food supply for urban consumers trigger growing interest of research and policy in urban and regional planning agenda, which once considered as external for urban dynamics. Offered to be defined as “new food equation”, prominent researchers unfolded these emergent trends as decreasing affordability, reliability and security of food supply. Also increasing discontent and objection of urban citizens for such circumstances, apparent transformations of eco-systems related with agri-food sector in the era of globalization and new land conflicts triggered by the growing demand on food by increasing numbers of urban consumers have been the popout headings. Concept of Alternative food networks (AFN) became a far-reaching research strand and policy based tool to cope with emerging trends of food supply, considering urban consumers and rural (or so called peri-urban) producers. AFN literature and policy practice offers contemporary research agenda topics regarding future attempts to deal with food supply of urban areas in regional and local scales. These topics include on the one hand an evaluation of the potential and limits of local food networks to illustrate whether they are ecologically sustainable in environmental level, just enough to promote more integrated and embedded social relations across urban and rural settings in social level and healthy enough to respond to food crises. On the other hand they require creating new ways of policy-making to suggest or force grassroots initiatives and local governments for new institutional structures to maintain food-supply.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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