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Food security is a concern of governments and global bodies. Their concern will become even more pressing with climate change, population pressures and resource depletion. A few years ago, it was difficult to imagine that here in Birmingham as in other UK cities, food security would be a major local...

ONLY IN FRENCH At the request of the metropolis, a research team conducted a diagnostic during the winter 2014-2015 and led two workshops with elected officials and service agents of the metropolis of Montpellier and its 31 municipalities. The results of this work focus on the agricultural and food portrait of...

ONLY IN FRENCH The 6 different territories of the Grenoble area have long been engaged in policies in favor of the development of agriculture, its diversification and the implementation of local circuits whether they are turned towards collective or private catering or at home. The actions implemented can be grouped into...

The aim of this handbook is to share the key lessons learnt during the three years of exchanges and experiences of the network; to make it available to other cities and stimulate them to start a similar journey towards a more sustainable and localised food system. It is our hope...

This new issue of Perspective highlights the informal arrangements between crop farmers, livestock farmers, agro-industry and the authorities that sustain urban agriculture in Africa. It argues in favour of taking account of such arrangements in the support policies from which this type of agriculture benefits and in town planning schemes....