Local Development Planning and Sustainable Food Systems

Starting from the food geography's theoretical framework around the concept of foodhshed, the Laboratory aims to explore the role of local food systems and policies in the transformation of food systems toward sustainability, looking at environmental resilience and conservation, social justice and health, fair value chains to producers, and democracy. The Laboratory will lead students to an overarching understanding and a critical reading of re-territorialisaton processes of the food systems: from short supply chains (GAS, CSA, farmers' markets, food hubs) to local food governance and policies (food districts, food communities, urban food strategies). Finally, the Laboratory will provide to students the basic theoretical and methodological principles for leading participatory planning of sustainable local food systems.