AGROECOLOGICAL URBANISM: What is it, why we need it, and the role of UN-Habitat

Chiara Tornaghi; Michiel Dehaene

doi:10.18552/CAWR/2024/0001

AGROECOLOGICAL URBANISM: What is it, why we need it, and the role of UN-Habitat

Chiara Tornaghi
, Michiel Dehaene

Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Ghent University

Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Current urbanisation approaches drive climate change, soil destruction, biodiversity loss, people’s alienation from nature, and unsustainable and unhealthy diets. To achieve sustainable urbanisation we need coherent and integrated urban and agricultural policies, that radically transform how we urbanise. Agroecological urbanism is a promising model, addressing simultaneously the challenges of climate change, soil regeneration, resource conservation and sustainable farming, while developing sustainable and socially just urban habitats and livelihoods. This brief suggests ways in which UN-Habitat, whose influence is key at the rural-urban interface, can adopt and promote this approach.

Original language	English
Type	Policy Briefing
Media of output	electronic
Publisher	Coventry University
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-84600-1253
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18552/CAWR/2024/0001
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2024

Publication series

Name	Agroecological Urbanism Policy Briefing series
No.	1

Funding

The content of this policy briefing is based on research results from the international project “Urbanising in Place” (2018-2022), funded by the JPI-Urban Europe’s “Sustainable Urban Global Initiative”(SUGI-NEXUS) programme, in collaboration with the Belmont Forum and Era-NET (Project number: 11326801). The national funders involved in supporting this project were: FWO (G0H5817N), ESRC (ES/S002251/1), Innovate UK & ERA-NET (620145 & 11326801), NWO (438-17-406), VIAA (ES RTD/2018/15 and ES RTD/2018/16), Innoviris (RBC/2018-ENSUGI-1), and MINCYT(CONVE-2019-16850590-APN-DDYGD#MECCYT)

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Agroecological urbanism
sustainable food planning
agricultural policy
urban planning
UN-Habitat
sustainable urbanisation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development

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[UiP]: Urbanising in place. Building the food water energy nexus from below
Tornaghi, C. (Principal Investigator), Franklin, A. (Researcher) & Kneafsey, M. (Researcher)
1/04/18 → 15/06/22
Project: Research

Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)
Vandermaelen, H., Dehaene, M., Tornaghi, C., Vanempten, E. & Verhoeve, A., 3 Aug 2023, In: European Planning Studies. 31, 8, p. 1693-1714 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions
Tornaghi, C. (Editor) & Dehaene, M. (Editor), 8 Mar 2021, Routledge. 233 p. (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
20 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)
The prefigurative power of urban political agroecology: rethinking the urbanisms of agroecological transitions for food system transformation
Tornaghi, C. & Dehaene, M., 27 May 2020, In: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 44, 5, p. 594-610 17 p.
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AGROECOLOGICAL URBANISM: What is it, why we need it, and the role of UN-Habitat

Abstract

Publication series

Funding

UN SDGs

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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Projects

[UiP]: Urbanising in place. Building the food water energy nexus from below

Research output

Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)

Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions

The prefigurative power of urban political agroecology: rethinking the urbanisms of agroecological transitions for food system transformation

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