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Sustainability Transitions and the complexity of its underlying challenges place a tremendous transformative pressure on food systems, putting the food transition on the forefront to generate co-benefits for a multitude of actors and players, translated into positive impacts on the economy, health, the environment, the climate adaptation and on the society. Various international strategies and commitments recommend that this transition be fully achieved by 2030, contributing to the goal of carbon neutrality, climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation, increasing physical and mental well-being, especially for the most vulnerable groups of the population. A sustainable food transition has thus recently gained increased relevance in metropolitan spatial planning and development policies. However, the complexity of steering this process and delivering transformative change sits far beyond any spatial and territorial constraints, to include the intricate, and often conflicting dynamics of the governance of food environments. As an outcome of a five-year intensive process, the Food Transition Strategy for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area was delivered at the end of 2023 and is now ready to be implemented underpinning a vision to reconfigure the evolution trajectories of the metropolitan food system by 2030. In this paper, we critically review the experience of strategizing this regional food system from a bottom-up approach by interlinking applied research with the current regional policies into force and the action undertaken by a backboned food policy network that has preliminary established the baseline for the Food Transition Policy to come up into this achievement.
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Food Transition Food System Strategy Food System Planning Food Policy Network Lisbon Metropolitan Area
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Oliveira, R., Mourato, J. M., Truninger, M., Cabello, F. L. & Távora, G. G. (2024). Strategizing regional food systems as pathways towards sustainability transitions:the case of Lisbons Metropolitan Area. In: XIth AESOP - Sustainable Food Planing Conference, pp. 1-7