Food policy in a multi and transcalar perspective

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Giaime Berti, Federico Cuomo, Egidio Dansero, Saverio Di Benedetto, Francesca Galli, Simona Monteleone, Giacomo Pettenati
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/4 Language Italian
Pages 20 P. 17-36 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa4-2023oa16843
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Food policies are receiving increasing interest for a variety of reasons, related to the role of food and food-systems in some major challenges, from climate change to social justice, human and animal health and welfare, and the sustainability of land and urban systems. This contribution proposes to analyse and interpret this process, in a multi and transcalar perspective, by juxtaposing and integrating geographical perspectives with those of other disciplines (economics, law, political science), and reading narratives and spaces involved in the construction of food policy. While adopting the mobility of policies as an interpretative key, the article analyses and reconstructs the main narratives caracterising global, national, regional, local and urban food policies.

Keywords: ; food policies, policy mobility, food systems, urban food planning

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Giaime Berti, Federico Cuomo, Egidio Dansero, Saverio Di Benedetto, Francesca Galli, Simona Monteleone, Giacomo Pettenati, Le Food policy in una prospettiva multi e transcalare in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 4/2023, pp 17-36, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa4-2023oa16843