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

Fresh!

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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

91

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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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