1. Towards urban food governance for more sustainable and just futures

Ana Moragues-Faus, Jill K. Clark, Jane Battersby and Anna Davies



Section 1: Histories of Urban Food Governance


2. The Role of Food Systems in Shaping Western Civilisation


Carolyn Steel


3. Urban change and the multi-scalar politics of food systems in colonial Africa


James Duminy


4. The historical role of cities in recursively shaping global food systems: Southeast Asia


Gisele Yasmeen

Section 2: Frames, theories and concepts of urban food governance


5. Social practice theories and urban food governance: from problem framing to designing collaborative change initiatives


Marlyne Sahakian and Stefan Wahlen


6. Feminist Ethics of Care in Urban Food Governance


Miriam J. Williams and Emma L. Sharp


7. Urban food democracy


Basil Bornemann and Sabine Weiland


8. Governing and communing activities around urban food commons

Oona Morrow

9. Justice, Race, and Urban Food Governance

Julian Agyeman, Alison Alkon and Alexandra Duprey

10. Conceptualisations of urban food governance

Jess Halliday

11. Exploring Urban Foodscapes via Feminist Political Ecology

Alice Hovorka

12. Innovation theory and urban food governance: transition thinking, social innovation and transformative change

Damian Maye, Daniel Keech and Matt Reed

Section 3: Practicing urban food governance

13. Relationships between Food Policy Councils and Government in the United States

Karen Bassarab, Raychel Santo and Anne Palmer

14. Food Policy Councils and governance partnerships in African urban contexts

Gareth Haysom and Paul Currie

15. Conceptualizing and Exploring U.S. Urban Food Policy

Jill K. Clark and Aiden Irish

16. Strategies for institutionalizing food systems planning

Lesli Hoey

17. Public Procurement as a Tool in Urban Food Governance in Brazil

Luciene Burlandy, Cecilia Rocha and Patricia Camacho Dias

18. Can Participatory Budgeting Be a Tool in Urban Food Governance

Cecilia Rocha and Luciene Burlandy

19. The Formal and Informal Governance of Urban Food Waste in Cities: Case Studies in the United States and Indonesia

Daniel Warshawsky and Tammara Soma

20. Perspective from an African city: Food market governance in Dar es Salaam

Marc C. A. Wegerif and Luitfred Kissoly

21. Urban Agriculture Practice, Policy, and Governance

Lauren Baker, James Kuhns and Joe Nasr

Section 4: Scales and agencies in urban food governance

22. The role of the private sector in urban food governance

Scott Drimie

23. Governing Urban Land for Community Food Cultivation

Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

24. Why small towns matter: rural-urban linkages and food systems in the Global South

Cecilia Tacoli

25. The City Region Food System Approach: Broadening the space for urban governance

Alison Blay-Palmer, Jess Halliday, Guido Santini, Joy Carey, Roman Malec, Makiko Taguchi, Rene van Veenhuizen, and Laine Young

26. International Agendas and Urban Food System Governance: Informing, integrating and operationalizing the SDGs

Thomas Forster, Florence Egal and Ana Puhac

27. Role of transnational city food networks in supporting urban food transformation.

Thierry Giordano

Section 5: Urban food governance futures

28. Towards Governance for Open Urban Food Futures

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Sara Heitlinger, Alex Taylor, Viktor Bedo

29. Embedding futures in urban food governance: participatory foresight in Eindhoven and Kyoto

Aniek Hebinck, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus and Steven R. McGreevy

30. More-than-Human Computer Interaction for Urban Food Governance

Sara Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Alex Taylor and Ruth Catlow

31. A brief history of speculative design and urban food governance

Serena Pollastri

32. Towards good food landscapes: The intrinsic links between continuous productive urban landscapes and food governance

Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen