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The current global crisis and the acknowledgment that in coming
decades the world population will be predominantly urban brings about
new necessities and demands for innovative approaches to the planning of
food systems. An urgent need arises to identify the most efficient and
consistent ways of dealing with problems concerning economic and energy
efficiency, environmental quality, food security, job creation, and urban
development.
In the past few years, international political and scientific agendas and
strategies for food security in metropolitan areas highlight the need to relocalize
production–consumption systems through shorter, more efficient
supply chains, as a means of promoting sustainable urban development via
place-based approaches. The provision of efficient responses to
environmental, economic, and social concerns, emerging in a context of
complex global change, needs to be tackled at a local and regional level.
The study of urban food systems becomes fundamental for an
integrated approach to these internationally set priorities. However,
this issue has yet to enter on either of the Portuguese political or
academic agendas. In Portugal, the structural changes that occurred in
the food system in the last decades reflect an increased socioeconomic impoverishment of the countryside vis-à-vis urban areas. Consequently,
there are deeper inequalities in terms of territorial cohesion.
Moreover, in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), where a third of
the Portuguese population lives, utilized agricultural area represents 37
percent of the territory, a figure which by itself justifies the need to adopt a
strategic vision for the LMA’s food system planning.
This paper will give insight into the conceptual definition of the
functional region as the area where the LMA’s food system might operate,
providing orientation to land-use management and strategic planning that
should be able to promote the re-localization of the food system in a
sustainable way. The characterization of the current LMA food system is
seen as a starting point for understanding how to develop a resilient urban
food system based on adequate spatial planning concepts and tools. This
paper seeks to discuss a feasible conceptual framework for the design of a
sustainable solution to feed the Lisbon metropolis, while simultaneously
promoting its economic vitality, environmental quality, spatial justice, and
cultural identity.
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Urban food system Urban food planning Lisbon Metropolitan Area
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Citation
Oliveira, R. & Morgado, M. J. (2016). Planning the Urban Food System of the Metropolitan Área of Lisbon. A conceptual framework. In R. Roggema (Ed.) Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society: Proceedings of the Sixth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning, "Finding Spaces for Productive Cities” November 5–7, 2014. Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing