Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Relations Between Agriculture and the City in Europe and the Mediterranean

   • Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin, Elodie Valette

   Pages 1-11

3. Systemic Approaches of Urban-Agricultural Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Food, Integrating Urban and Agricultural Dynamics in Pisa, Italy

      • Sylvie Lardon, Marie Houdart, Salma Loudiyi, Rosalia Filippini, Elisa Marraccini

      Pages 15-31

   3. Logistic Issues and Impacts of Short Food Supply Chains: Case Studies in Nord – Pas de Calais, France

      • Amélie Gonçalves, Thomas Zeroual

      Pages 33-49

   4. Interactions Between Agriculture and the City: A Systemic Approach to Examine Sustainability in Meknes (Morocco)

      • Jean-Pierre Chery, Elodie Valette, Patrick Dugué, Pascale Philifert, Abdellaoui El Hassane

      Pages 51-72

   5. Urban Farms Under Pressure: Cairo’s Dairy Producers, Egypt

      • Annabelle Daburon, Véronique Alary, Ahmed Ali, Mohamed El Sorougy, Jean François Tourrand

      Pages 73-88

4. Methods and Tools to Design Sustainable Urban Food Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. An Ecological Footprint-Based Spatial Zoning Approach for Sustainable Metropolitan Agro-Food Systems

      • Dirk Wascher, Leonne Jeurissen, Jan-Eelco Jansma, Michiel van Eupen

      Pages 91-109

   3. Food Cells and Food Nodes. Two New Concepts for Rethinking Traditional Urban and Food Planning Practices. The Case of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Region

      • Sonia Callau, Josep Montasell, Andreu Vila

      Pages 111-128

   4. The Integration Between Mediterranean Cities and Agriculture in Local Projects. A Conceptual Framework

      • Salma Loudiyi, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Patricia Abrantes, Sylvie Lardon, Guilhem Mousselin, Pascale Scheromm et al.

      Pages 129-143

5. Inventory of Changes in Urban Agriculture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Innovative Commercial Urban Agriculture in the Paris Metropolitan Area

      • Christine Aubry, Anne-Cécile Daniel

      Pages 147-162

   3. Zero-Acreage Farming: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Policies and Partnerships

      • Susanne Thomaier

      Pages 163-180

   4. The Emergence of Municipal Allotment Gardens in Greece in Times of Crisis. Governance Challenges for New Urban Gardening Practices

      • Theodosia Anthopoulou, Sofia Nikolaidou, Maria Partalidou, Michael Petrou

      Pages 181-199

   5. The Proliferation of Collective Gardens in Lisbon (Portugal) and Montpellier (France): Urban Residents Demand and Municipal Support

      • Pascale Scheromm, Guilhem Mousselin

      Pages 201-217

   6. The Governance of Urban Agriculture and Multifunctional Land Use in the City of Zurich

      • Ingrid Jahrl, Otto Schmid

      Pages 219-235

6. Back Matter

   Pages 237-239

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This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters consider the key role of actors in the definition of innovations and pathways, which enhance sustainability, seen as an ongoing process. Part 1 presents systemic approaches of agricultural-urban interactions at the city-region scale in France, Egypt, Italy and Morocco. Part 2 deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, utilized to design and assess sustainable food systems. The Part 3 inventories the recent changes in urban agriculture and the new forms of governance which are emerging in European cities (Athens, Berlin, Lisbon, Montpellier, Paris and Zurich).  These results are useful for students, academics and activists involved in local policies and projects.

• Farming systems
• Governance
• Innovation
• Planning
• Urban agriculture
• Food planning
• Gardening
• Europe
• urban geography and urbanism

• Innovation, INRA, CIRAD,, Montpellier Supagro, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

  Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin

• ART-DEV, University of Montpellier, CIRAD,, CNRS, University of Paul Valery, University of Perpignan, Montpellier, France

  Elodie Valette

Christophe-Toussaint Soulard is a senior researcher at INRA (The French Institute for Agricultural Research). Head of the research team “Agricity” of the Innovation research unit in Montpellier, France, he conducts research on sustainable agriculture and urban food systems. Holding a PhD in geography (Paris Sorbonne University, 1999), he leads research and action-research projects, and supervises doctoral theses in France, with comparisons in the Mediterranean (Lebanon, Portugal, Tunisia) and with the United States (Portland). 

Coline Perrin is a researcher at INRA (The French Institute for Agricultural Research). Member of the research team “Agricity” of the UMR Innovation in Montpellier, France, she conducts researches on farmland farmland management on the urban fringe planning. PhD in geography (Aix-Marseille and Firenze Florence Universities, 2009), she leads the research project JASMINN dealing with farmland protection, urban planning and spatial justiceon the urban fringe, in France, Italy and other Mediterranean countries. 

Elodie Valette is researcher at CIRAD (The French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation Institute). She is member of the joint research unit Art-Dev in Montpellier, France. She has a PhD in geography (Paris Diderot University, 2003) and leads research projects dealing with agriculture, governance and urban planning, in Africa and Maghreb.

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