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Using case studies from Latin America, it explores the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region's cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as an urban problem. It will interest students, scholars, and policymakers in food systems, urban planning, sustainable development, and Latin American studies.
Sommario
Introduction. Latin American urbanization and food systems: integrating perspectives toward a more sustainable food future.
SECTION I - Territories 1. Urban governance and the regulation of street food vending in Latin America. 2. Food gentrification in Mexico: three urban experiences. 3. Land disputes and the urbanization process: challenges for urban food systems. 4. The need of land for peri-urban agricultural production and its inclusion onto the national public agendas: regional planning instruments to preserve green belts in Latin America.
SECTION II - Mobilities 5. On the way to the city: food transportation in short marketing circuits in Mexico City 6. Mobile infrastructures: the appification of the urban food delivery 7. Migration and urban food systems in Latin America 8. Eating on the move. metro stations as care infrastructure in the city of Santiago
SECTION III - Governance 9. Supermarket expansion strategies in Latin America: impacts on urban economic structure and food environments 10. Concentration and centralization of capital in Brazilian food retail: economic strategies, territorial expansion, and the production of urban space in medium-sized cities 11. Fair trade and agroecology: emerging tools to strengthen commercial strategies of family farmers organizations 12. Actor constellations and contested governance in the Mexico City public markets' network 13. Local urban food policies in Latin America: the Milan pact as translocal articulation network.
Final reflections Food and the production of urban space: reflections from experiences in Latin American cities.
Info autore
Tiana Baki¿ Hayden is an Anthropologist and a Professor of Urban Studies at El Colegio de México, Mexico. Her research focuses on cultures of food commerce and consumption and on the relationship between food and mobilities.
Joaquín Pérez Martín is a Professor and Researcher of agrifood systems at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research focuses on urban food supply, food infrastructure, logistics, governance, and policies.
Riassunto
Using case studies from Latin America, it explores the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region’s cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as an urban problem. It will interest students, scholars, and policymakers in food systems, urban planning, sustainable development, and Latin American studies.
