Salvor JONSDOTTIR, University of Iceland, Iceland
Gudrun GISLADOTTIR, University of Iceland, Iceland
Changing environmental conditions and intensified request for environmentally sound and resilient agriculture and food systems in times of increased need for food, requires better integration between planning for agricultural land use and food systems planning.
Food system studies have been a growing field in several disciplines over the past couples of decades, including in geography and planning. Almost all food production in agriculture requires land to some extent. However, research has to the larger extent focused on availability, access and utilization, or the part of the food system that can be associated with consumers and the urban aspect of food systems. Likewise, the inclusion of food system does not seem apparent neither in land use- nor agricultural/farmland production plans. Agricultural policies may not either be coordinated with rural- or food system planning. Moreover, as sustainability is commonly an overarching goal in public planning and policymaking, the cooccurrence of sustainability, food system planning and land use planning seem to be lacking from current literature.
Nevertheless, it is often recommended to look at the food system in a holistic way both across disciplines, spatial scales, and methods.
Holistic sustainable food system planning may be suffering from a disjoint approach, e.g., where planning for farmland may not have any connections to planning for food marketing, accessibility, or for dietary guidelines. Increased cooperation between stakeholders such as producers and consumers, is necessary to break down the individual silos of the food system that may be hindering sustainable development of the current food system.
This presentation describes findings from a systematic literature review that was conducted to answer the research question on how or if, land use policy and planning, and food system planning are integrated, to address sustainable rural development and agri-food production.
Mots clés : land use|food systems|rural planning|sustainability|integration
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