Placing the food system within planetary limits

We kindly invite you to this multiplier event of the AESOP4Food Erasmus+ Course:

INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR: PLACING THE FOOD SYSTEM WITHIN PLANETARY LIMITS. ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES FOR URBAN AND LAND USE PLANNING

REGISTRATIONS HERE

Tuesday 20.02 17:00-20:00  International training and research in Sustainable Food Planning

17:00 Welcome 

17:10 The AESOP4Food sustainable food planning course: open access material for all interested in capacity building. Roxana Triboi & Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, NL

17:30 Lessons from the onsite intensive workshops

  • Madrid 2022 – Scenarios for food security at neighbourhood scale. Marian Simón Rojo, UPM (SP)
  • Ghent 2023 –  Future urban agricultural heritage, the case of public land. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent (BE)
  • Montpellier 2024 – Agricultural parks / food environments. Damien Conaré, l’Institut Agro (FR)

17:50 Living Lab in Warsaw: the experience of developing an urban farm. Aleksandra Nowysz. Warsaw University of Life Sciences (PL)

18:10 Questions and feedback 

18:30 Short break

18:50 What can we learn from best practices in food planning?

  • Food neighbourhoods, productive landscapes and healthy food nexus. Self-organised community responses. Alain Santandreu, Ecosad, Perú
  • Participatory urban food planning: Learning from Carthage, Tunisia. Katrin Bohn, University of Brighton (UK)
  • Food policies: The case of Greater Paris Region. Clara Zamour. Terres en Villes (FR)

19:40 Further events and activities. The AESOP-SFP conference in Ghent.  An overview of networks for sustainable food planning. Michiel Dehaene – Universiteit Gent

20:00 Final remarks

Monday 19.02 17:00-19:30. Innovative initiatives from social actors: what are their demands towards urban planning?

Tuesday 20.02 11:30-14:00 Innovative initiatives from public bodies: What is the role of urban planning?

In 2009 the Stockholm Resilience Center launched the concept of the nine planetary boundaries. Exceeding them would jeopardise the stability of the Earth system. Since then they have been revised three times and in 2023 the scientific panel announced that we have already exceeded six of the nine limits. The urban model and the globalised food system have been key factors in reaching this situation.

Far from plunging us into pessimism, we want to give visibility and share research results, actions and roadmaps in the process of definition to support the transition in food systems from the urban environment.

The seminar offers a space for collective reflection and debate on strategies and practical tools adapted to the realities, competencies and capacities of municipalities to put urban planning at the service of another way of feeding cities. It will address how to accommodate food systems to planetary limits with instruments such as agro-ecological infrastructures, protection of agricultural land, regulation of uses and activities in undeveloped land, agricultural compatibility and food transformation in urban land and new planning tools for the payment of ecosystem services. It pushes further the previous 2021 webinars “Urban planning of agroecological food systems (3-4 March 2021 RMxAe) and “International conference Urbanism and planning of agroecological food systems”   (13-14 December 2021). AESOP-SFP in its turn, brings in the vision of strategies underway in other European contexts. AESOP4Food presents its capacity building for sustainable food planning and guidance.