supurb food project - vigo city overview
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CCRI | Reed
City Region Report Overview
Dr Matt Reed On behalf of the CCRI team
Vigo June 2013
#supurb
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Outline
•aims of wp2•diversity & shopping•multi-functional land use•nutrient recyling•shortening food chains•activists•opportunities & blockages•accelerators
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aims of wp2
• Systematic review of 3 main areas of supurbfood in each city region
• Focus on understanding the dynamics of governance
• interviews, documentary review, social media analysis and stakeholder workshops
• Blockages, opportunities, priorities and best practice
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diversity
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DUBLIN
UNITEDKINGDOM
LONDON
PORTUGAL
LISBON
SPAIN
MADRID
FRANCE
PARIS
ROME
ITALY
BELGIUMBRUSSELS
NETHERLANDAMSTERDAM
BERLIN
DENMARK
COPENHAGEN
NORWAY
OSLO
SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM
FINLAND
HELSINKI
ESTONIATALLINNRUSSIA
MOSCOWRIGA LATVIA
VILNIUSLITHUANIARUSSI
POLAND
WARSAW
BELARUSMINSK
UKRAINEKIEV
MOLDOVACHISINAU
BUCHAREST
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAN
BERN
AUSTRIVIENNA
SLOVAKIABRATISLAV
PRAGUE
BUDAPEST
ANKARA
TURKEY
BULGARISOFIA
ATHENS
GREECEALBANIATIRANA
SARAJEVO
ZAGREB
SERBIABELGRADE
MACEDONISKOPJE
KOSOVOPRISTINA
YEREVAN
GEORGIA
ARMENIATBILISI
The SUPURB City Regions
Bristol
Ghent
Riga
Rome
Rotterdam
Vigo
Zurich
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diversity of europe
• geographic - landscapes, climates -
• governance styles and histories -
• very local specifics hard to ignore
• importance of agriculture -
• shopping habits -
• global flows - influential
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shopping
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common themes
• importance of the multiple retailers
• consumption seen as a meaningful civic action
• importance of food only partially recognized in policy
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multi-funtional
land use
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• availability of land?
• integration of commercial farming
• complexity of regulations
• development pressures
• food as a theme hard to integrate
common themes
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nutrient recycling
30%
7%8%
26
28
76
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common themes
• technocratic approach
• energy capture + composting
• regulated markets
• technological solutions
• little participation
• based on continued wastefulness?
• catalytic role of the EU directive
7%8%2628
76
91
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shortening food chains
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common themes
• lack of co-ordination - producers/consumers
• example canteens for elderly & children
• agreed definition of sustainability
• imagination and energy
• importance of the ‘local’ (local = good)
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Activists
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activists• voluntary engagement
• sustainability focus - (social, environmental and local economic)
• development of local knowledge
• innovative organisations and forms of engagement
• common social status and background
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opportunities, blockages
UNITEDKINGDOM
LISBON
SPAIN ROME
ITALY
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
LATVIA
SWITZERLAND
ATHENS
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common opportunities
• CSA’s and box schemes
• direct sales by professional farmers
• social, care and therapeutic farms (horticulture)
• buying groups by consumers
• self-provisioning by households - response to the economic crisis + tradition
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complex government• layers - local, national, regional, EU
• EU - procurement directives
• national-regional-local - spatial planning
• local administration of rules - flexible?
• lack of party political salience
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‘quick’ wins
• all allotments organic
• temporary growing on brownfield sites
• vegetarian days in canteens
• the edible city
• city report on food supply
• the corner shop
• local and/organic in public kitchens
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shared absences
• integration of migrants and ethnic minorities
• evidence based arguments for regional food
• changing capabilities of the state
• impacts of globalization
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accelerators• no step changes identified
• speed of change necessary?
• EU waste directive vs EU procurement regulations
• elite discussions not linked to city region level
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