The new geography of food security
Exploring the Potential of Urban Food Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5286344 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberta Sonnino (0000-0003-3253-1028, School of Planning and Geography Cardiff University Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3WA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 182 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-200 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12129 |
| OpenAlex | W1929344138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 99 |
| References cited | 43 |
Food insecurity is increasingly 'bimodal', encompassing issues of quantity and quality, under- and overconsumption, in developed and developing countries alike. At a time when most of the world's population lives in cities, food security has also assumed a strong urban dimension, raising new issues of physical and financial access to food. Finally, the recent emergence of a 'New Food Equation', marked by food price hikes, dwindling natural resources, land grabbing activities, social unrest, and the effects of climate change, is bringing onto the global food security agenda a range of often interrelated sustainability concerns. Responses to this new geography of food security are increasingly emerging at the local level, particularly in industrialised countries, where municipal governments are recasting themselves as food system innovators. Based on the documentary analysis of 15 urban food strategies from Canada, the USA and the UK, the paper addresses three main questions: What type of 'foodscape' do these documents envision, and why? Does the rescaling of food governance coincide with the emergence of a new localistic approach to food security? What type of priorities and concrete measures do city governments identify to deal with the new geography of food security? By highlighting the centrality of the relationships between urban and rural areas and actors as targeted intervention areas, the analysis raises the need for a tighter scholarly and policy focus on 'connectivities' - i.e. the role of food exchange nodes and of governance coordination in the design and implementation of more effective food security strategies
Agriculture · Business · Centrality · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Food systems · Geography · Political science · Population · Sociology · Sustainability · Ecology · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 99 |
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| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 97 |