FOOD IN CITIES THE NEW FRONTIER OF RURAL POLICY?
Jul 16, 2015
Rural-fication in the City
Small Scale Communities - face to face
Participation - civic networks
Focus on relations with nature/agri-culture
Socially homogenous (Tribe)
Re-valorisation of ex-industrial areas
Demographic changes - Wealthier, ex-urban, older professionals, vs younger, insecure,
MIGRATION
Flattening the difference between rural/urban - Broadband, 3D printing, logistics
ICT
In competition - conservation, agri-business, high social status of rural living
RE-VALORISATION
GLOBALISATION
Rising role of the city not the nation state
Changing Urban/Rural
Relations
About flows not
areas
Food Nexus
exemplar &
product 7
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7
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Nutrients Water Land
Food
Wildlife
Community
Jobs
‘Proximate’ food
Food production linked to urban areas
Food Security - household, regional
Carbon reductions
Local distinctiveness
Rural as the hinterlands of cities
Future of rural policy
Increasing role of cities in food chains - preparing for
post-supermarket food supply
Networked rural development - the social gains to be
made by urban/peri-urban agriculture linked to rural
areas
Role for agri-social schemes - rewarding schemes that
bring social benefits
Opportunities for re-wilding and more newly remote
rural