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Sustainable Food in Urban Communities…
URBAN FOOD STRATEGY MIX
François Jégou (URBACT Lead expert)
Strategic Design Scenarios
www.StrategicDesginScenarios.net
An URBACT II Thematic Network - Sustainable Food in Urban Communities
URBAN FOOD STRATEGY MIXSustainable Food Workshop for European Cities
…strong environmental impact… …use a lot of resources… …dependent on chemical fertilizers and fuel for
mechanization… …subsidies creating imbalance at world and local scale… …“just in time” air and road low-prices transports… …higher income levels and exotic
gastronomy... …pre-packed, prepared convenient food and less preparation… …critical environmental issues… … increase of meat and dairy products… …'junk
food' and booming of food-related health disorders… …food security… …high food waste from abundance and
consumption marketing… …nutritional imbalance and retail access inequity... …changing consumption patterns… …
higher and more volatile prices and food riots… …food security that become a national priority… …effect of climate change on agro system… …growing conflict on natural resources including land,
water, forests, etc…
Food topic is hot in the sustainability agenda…
Feeding the 5000, Bristol…
Food topic is hot into cities agenda…
Rural-Urban Continuum… (FAO)
…Food Sensitive Urban Design (Veil)
Amersfoort (146 000)Athens (655 780 / 3 074 160)Bristol (441 300 / 1 070 000)
Brussels (1 100 000 / 2 500 000)Gothenburg (516 000 / 940 000)
Lyon (1 300 000 / 2 500 000)Messina (252.026)Ourense (108.002)
Oslo (613 285 / 1 000 000)Vaslui (69 000)
Which assets does these 'hungry cities' have?
Still a strong food capital…
…effort to avoid erosion, to leapfrog
Food culture already lost…
…effort to recover
Az. Agricola Coop C.a.i.f.e, Massina…
Matvett webpage on food wastes, Oslo…
A population rooted/engaged with food…
An active foodies community…
…often blind to slow disengagement
…on top of a population who
don't care
Market fare, Ourense… Hoofdstad van de Smaak, Amersfoort…
Hartcliffe Health & Environment Action Group, Bristol…
Economical and cultural food poverty…
Social and Solidarity grocery shop, Lyon…
Food access and food justice…
Sustainability… food pleasure driven
University of Gastronomy, Massina…
Food Hall, Oslo…
MAJOBO, Oslo…
Many initiatives but not a movement…
Change making & up-scaling…
Plato’s Academy, Athens…
Up-scaling by 'positive contamination'?
Fair trade city, Gothenburg…
Community gardens, lyon
Right mix between bottom-up engagement and top-down framework?
Environment-Jobs Alliance on sustainable Food, Brussels
Economy of scale & economy of scope…
Landwinkel, Amersfoort…
Emerging problems from sustainable solutions…
Polluted soil replacement, Lyon…
Community garden charter, Lyon…
Shifting towards sustainable ways of living…
Private gardens and household production, Vaslui…
Urban production versus behaviour change…
Pré Senty, Lyon…
Local food: knowing is caring…
Plus supermarket, Amersfoort…
Local food: what is not 'not local'…
Slow Food taste and food education, Messina…
Making food an issue among the population…
Building governance…
Bruxelles Champètre, Brussels…
Keeping momentum…
Capital of taste 2012, Amersfoort…
Linking promising initiatives…
A transversal topic…
URBACT Local Support Goups…
…towards a new local governance?
Urban Food Strategy Mix…
A 'non-conference'
THANK YOU…
An URBACT II Thematic Network - Sustainable Food in Urban Communities
URBAN FOOD STRATEGY MIXSustainable Food Workshop for European Cities
François Jégou (URBACT Lead expert)
Strategic Design Scenarios
www.StrategicDesginScenarios.net
