Some cities are mainly, though not exclusively, fed by urban, peri-urban and nearby rural farms and food processors, while other cities rely largely, though not entirely, on food produced and processed in other countries or continents. In all cases however, food systems link rural and urban communities i n a region within a country, across regions, and sometimes between continents.
Cities and urban food supply systems play an important role in shaping their surrounding -and more distant- rural areas where land use, food production, environmental management, transport and distribution, marketing, consumption and waste generation is concerned. In this context, a city region food system CRFS approach provides a critical lens for analysis, and at the same time supports on the ground policy transformation and implementation.
Working a city region level can be a means to unpack the complexity of rural urban linkage to a practical level, with food being the entry point or common denominator that brings down broader issues such as human rights, climate change and resilience to a digestable form and provide cities and metropolitan regions practical strategies to address broader issues.
Improved city region food systems will help improve economic, social and environmental conditions in both urban and nearby rural areas. Access to affordable and nutritious traded foods from local and regional producers will improve consumer food security and nutrition from high to low income, from rural to urban, and enhance transparency in the food chain. Access to markets and support to alternative markets e. Local and regional food hubs and shorter value chains, and more broadly efficient and functioning agricultural supply chains that link hinterland producers to market systems, can contribute to sustainable diets, reduce food waste along the chain and stabilise livelihoods in distribution, processing and manufacture of food and fibre products.
Applying a city region perspective can also help creating participatory governance structures that include stakeholders from multiple sectors from both urban and rural areas. City region food system development will need to go hand in hand with enhancing sustainability of more distant value chains to the benefits of smallholder producers and urban consumers. The recogonition for city region food systems , improving urban-rural linkages, and the role that urban and peri-urban agriculture eg localised food production can play are recognised in the Habitat III issue paper on urban rural linkages.
This should be supported from a perspective of sustainable metropolitan development as well as equitable development of urban and rural areas. Very key, and quite insightful comment.
Thank you very much RUAF for the dimension you have brought onboard on food provisioning in regards to Sustainable Metropolitan Development. We are all fully aware the challenge that aspect poses to the future of most metropolises, and as well the opportunities for urban innovation it provides to the dwellers and its local and regional authorities.
Considering that urbanization has brought high-rated, problem-related innovations, the area of urban food security has well been researched and solutions, as well as pathways provided to ease the load borne by the metropolitan authorities in provision of basic livelihoods for its dwellers. It would be quite interesting if we could have some success stories across the world based on this element of urban food systems, which could well cast some light and focus on the best practices and lessons learned.
What functions and services are best provided at the regional level, and what are best left to constituent muncipalities, is a fundamental question facing metropolitan areas worldwide. Too often arguments for economies of scale and perceived efficiency leave member municipalities without adequate recourse and voice in decisions made by metro agencies. Equally problematic is stubbornness on the part of municipalities unwilling to collaborate, even in the face of mounting fiscal pressures.
Reaping the benefits of metro-level cooperation means striking the right balance for each unique urban region. A separate issue is political representation. Groups already underrepresented within government writ-large can be further marginalized within metropolitan governance structures. For example, though many municipalities worldwide have established formal youth advisory bodies, oftentimes the purview of these structures are limited to local jurisdiction.
This can result in critical perspectives being left out of discussions of important regional issues. Metropolitan governance must take into account and appropriately institutionalize mechanisms to ensure such perspectives are represented. To open the discussion, we invite you to share your point of view on major metropolitan challenges resulting from the intensification of metropolization.
As metropolitan areas become ever more populated, urban challenges grow broader in scope and often call for policies and initiatives that extend beyond local boundaries. How should these challenges be addressed at the metropolitan level? Adrine from United Republic of Tanzania. My organization Polis Institute is member of the Global Platform Right to the City and we are advocating for a Habitat III outcome to embrace the Right to the City principles across four core domains: Right to the City principles Protect, promote and implement the Right to the City in all Habitat III documents; Enshrine new paradigms for integrated planning and management in the New Urban Agenda ; Ensure inclusive, democratic, secure and sustainable cities; Fulfill the social function of property by strengthening collective social, cultural and environmental interests over individual and economic interests; Incorporate the priorities, needs and experiences of citizens and communities, especially for women, the poor, the minorities and vulnerable groups, and the organizations supporting them.
Produce an outcome document with specific and measurable results and commitments Ensure access to basic and social services, mobility, public and green spaces and the enjoyment of natural and built heritage. Produce an outcome document with specific and measurable commitments and results on the implementation of the various components of the Right to the city as well as of the new Sustainable Development Goals.
Hi Nelson and thank you for your contribution! Philippe Rivet from Canada. Ajay Nair Consultant from United States. Ajay Nair USA. UK where several agencies have been created to manage different functions, each with their own administrative boundaries.
The former is more orderly, but can also be slower to adapt to changing needs. Nodus worked on the spatial aspects of dealing with deprived neighbourhoods. One of its main messages was on the importance of FUA governance for ensuring the balanced functioning of interventions, avoiding negative spatial externalities of regeneration activities. NeT-TOPIC focused on the situation of peripheral municipalities within metropolitan areas and suggested that such municipalities have to find their specific functions within the wider metropolitan area, making it in that way more multi-functional.
UseAct — Urban Sustainable Environmental Actions — focused on the re-use of inner urban areas to protect empty land.
Among the central issues was urban growth management in metropolitan areas, discussing the planning and management tools and also the organisational models to support this, such as public-private partnerships PPPs , quality of interventions, proactive participation and also adaptive re-use. Lumasec — Land Use Management for Sustainable European Cities — suggested that cities must remain as compact as possible by avoiding sprawl — for which primarily governance tools have to be used based on: mapping structures; identifying the need for land-use tools; involving stakeholders; and developing a strategy.
Individual projects can then follow, based on the identification of integrated financial tools. EnterHub — developed innovative planning tools enhancing urban planning and city policies to reach a sustainable urban and territorial development through the strengthening and widening of the railway systems, in particular by exploiting the economic, cultural and social inducts of railway hubs of regional relevance.
Submitted by ivan. Article 14 September Article 22 July Article 23 December Article 02 December Metropolitan areas under the pandemic. Edited on 19 January Read time: 5 minutes. Physical Urban Development. Topics Health. Public Space.
Barcelona Metropolitan Area. Understanding metropolitan governance The pandemic arrived suddenly and, across the EU, decision-making on the most important health, economic and public security issues was centralised at a national level. Public space: sanitation, closing and opening of parks was jointly decided. Health care is a regional Catalonian competence, although there was some re-nationalisation of healthcare management.
Despite all this, the exchange of information between the mayors was very important even in this sector. Following many temporary measures, the Metropolitan Council comprising 90 metropolitan councillors, including the 36 mayors and additional councillors in proportion to the demographic weight of the municipalities adopted in June a new metropolitan mobility strategy, with four main topics : more bicycles and pedestrians, 70 km of new bike routes; improving public transport, restoring public trust; new mobility in the work environment; and establishing a metropolitan low-emission zone for clean air.
Experiences in other types of metropolitan areas More research would be needed to fully map the experiences of other EU metropolitan areas. However, many of the crimes that populate metro areas are more violent in nature.
The Anchorage, Alaska metropolitan statistical area for example, has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the United States. Areas with dense populations such as these are hotbeds for the spread of the virus. Many workers in metro areas have been forced to work in conditions considered high risk while many others have lost their jobs altogether. In fact, the increased levels of unemployment and lowered income have led to new highs in loan and mortgage delinquencies throughout the metro statistical zones.
In response to these dangerous times and conditions, many have switched to remote work in the hopes that working from home will help stop the spread of the virus. This text provides general information. Statista assumes no liability for the information given being complete or correct. Due to varying update cycles, statistics can display more up-to-date data than referenced in the text.
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