AESOP SFP has been selected to become one of the partners of the Urban Agenda for the EU Partnership on Food

 This UAEU Partnership include several other members from European cities´ administrations, key EU food-city networks (e.g. EUROCITIES, ICLEI, MUFPP coordinators), research institutions, other professional organisations. The Urban Agenda for the EU aims to advise the European Union in order to realise the full potential and contribution of urban areas towards achieving the objectives of the Union and related national priorities. …

Young Academics & Professionals Networking Session on March 14

The AESOP- Sustainable Food Planning group invites the young academics and professionals (YAP) of this community (YAP Group) to connect and share with one another on a video call on 14 March 2024 from 13,30 to 15,00 CET. Please register here! During the call, attendees will share what you are working on, what motivates you to do this work, career goals, and …

New publication alert!

Dr. Alessandra Manganelli, a member of the AESOP Food Planning Steering Committee, and a Senior Research Associate (Post Doc) at HafenCity University in Hamburg, has published a new book. Take a look! Manganelli, A. (2022), The Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements. Lessons from Brussels and Toronto.  “Undertaking a journey into the “hybrid governance” of urban food movements, this book offers …

Land use and urban planning as a catalyst of the agroecological transition_13-14 December 21

We are happy to announce the next International Conference Land use and urban planning as a catalyst of the agroecological transition, chaired by the GIAU+S (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) and the Spanish Network of Agroecological Cities It will take place online next 13th and 14th December.  It opens a space for collective reflection to exchange …

Open lecture series

A few members of the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning community have been teaching in an open lecture series organised by Jerone de Vries and Roxana Triboi at LE:NOTRE Institute (NL). The lectures aimed to be a first step towards a collective building of a curriculum for sustainable food planning, which often is not part of …

New book published: Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism. Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions

Building on state-of-the-art and participatory research on farming, urbanism, food policy and advocacy, this new book changes the ways food planning has been conceptualised to date, and invites the reader to fully embrace the transformative potential of an agroecological perspective. It argues for moving away from a “food in the city” approach, and to rather …

2019 Conference announced

There will be a dedicated PhD and Young Professional event, one day before the conference (6th of  November). You can choose to participate to it, in the registration form. The 9th AESOP-Sustainable Food Planning international conference on Agroecological transitions confronting climate breakdown: Food planning for the post-carbon city will be hosted at the Faculty of Architecture, …

Conference proceedings published

We have now published the Conference Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning group. You can download them here: 2018_Aesop publication - final version

Book of abstracts

The booklet of the conference, including the programme, directions, special events, book of abstracts and list of delegates (as closed on the 1st of November) is now available to download here as a PDF file. The abstracts are listed in alphabetical order by surname of the first author. To download, click here: Book of abstracts (PDF) …

Final programme

Dear all, here the link to the final programme: click here to see final programme