Het eten wat op ons bord ligt heeft steeds meer kilometers afgelegd voor het daar terecht is gekomen. Een opkomend alternatief is voedsel uit zogenoemde ‘korte ketens’, waarbij geprobeerd wordt de afstand tussen producent en consument – zowel fysiek als mentaal - te verkleinen. Maar wat is de capaciteit …

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, …

Wastewater consists of valuable nutrients that can be reused in agricultural fertilizers. In order to capitalize on this reuse potential, a transition is needed to circular sanitation-food systems. This poster summarizes Martijn Stehouwer's MSc thesis in enironmental policy. This thesis seeks to understand …

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 …