The aim was to study the needs, opportunities and effects of citizen engagement in the urban food system transition. This addresses the issue of - ‘how’, ‘in what ways’ and ‘through what methods’ - citizens can be engaged in the developments towards a more sustainable and healthy regional food system. …

Even in a less eventful year, it’s no easy feat: working to make our food supply healthy and sustainable. But 2020 brought a spate of new challenges. It was the year of Brexit, Black Lives Matter, and the COVID-19 pandemic. A year of hope and loss and solidarity, of masks and worries and Zoom calls. …

A growing group of cities feels responsible to feed urban populations sustainably. This has stimulated cities to embrace urban agriculture as an alternative in their food system orientation. However, while urban agriculture in all its diversity has arrived in the urban fabric and at planners’ desks, …

The need for a shift toward healthier and more sustainable diets is evident and is supported by universalized standards for a “planetary health diet” as recommended in the recent EAT-Lancet report. At the same time, differences exist in tastes, preferences and food practices among diverse ethnic groups, …

Welke verschillende rollen speelt de burger in de transitie naar een duurzamer en gezonder voedselsysteem? Dat is de centrale vraag van deze publicatie, voortkomend uit het onderzoek van de promovendi van het lectoraat Voedsel en Gezond Leven aan Aeres Hogeschool Almere, in samenwerking met masterstudenten …

Almere en Zeewolde zijn beide gelegen in de provincie Flevoland, een provincie gecreëerd door landaanwinning uit de zee en bestemd voor landbouwproductie. De geografische verbondenheid binnen de Zuidelijke Flevopolder is aanleiding om deze twee gemeentes in deze studie tezamen op te pakken. De nadruk …

Efforts to involve consumers in the transition towards sustainable diets often presume a degree of reflexivity on the concepts of health and sustainability in the minds of consumers ‘doing healthy and sustainable food’. Departing from the hypothesis that people with type 2 diabetes have been confronted …

Nutrition insecurity among urban poor in modernizing Asian metropolises is a critical issue. It is well recognized that in urban Asia the poor are food insecure. Across Asia the food retail environment is transforming rapidly, in which supermarkets increasingly replace traditional food vending, like …

Equitable access to healthy food is a critical challenge in urban Asia. Food safety governance promotes modern supermarkets over more traditional markets, but supermarkets are associated with unequal access to food. This study investigates how retail policies driven by food safety impact the diets of …

Overal ter wereld zien we dat steden steeds meer het voortouw nemen in de voedsel systeem transitie vanuit verantwoordelijkheden als weerbaarheid, gezondheid en duurzaamheid. Dit drijft ook de herbezinning op regionale voedselsystemen, city-region-food-systems, maar wat betekent dat voor de opgave om …