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- Haysom, Gareth, et al.
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Food systems sustainability: An examination of different viewpoints on food system change
- 2019
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In: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 11:12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present a useful lens to engage a wide variety of urban (and global) challenges—so called ‘wicked problems.’ This paper describes a collaborative research project between four urban food system research units, two European and two African. The project purpose was to seek out solutions to what lay between, across and within the different approaches applied in the understanding of each city’s food system challenges. Contextual differences and immediate (perceived) needs resulted in very different views on the nature of the challenge and the solutions required. Value positions of individuals and their disciplinary “enclaves” presented further boundaries. The paper argues that finding consensus provides false solutions. Rather the identification of novel approaches to such wicked problems is contingent of these differences being brought to the fore, being part of the conversation, as devices through which common positions can be discovered, where spaces are created for the realisation of new perspectives, but also, where difference is celebrated as opposed to censored.
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- Smit, Warren, et al.
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What is meaningful collaboration? Reflections from work on food systems and urban regeneration
- 2019
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In: 4th Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference: “Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes”, Cutler’s Hall, 14–18 October 2019, Sheffield, UK.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The workshop draws on experiences from two recent Mistra-supported collaboration and co-production projects. The workshop is made up of three aligned components. The first session aligns with a general understanding of co-production, that of the collaboration between academics and policy makers in the pursuit of sustainable neighbourhood development. The second area of work investigates co-production between academics from different contexts and regions. These two sessions raise interesting questions about process, power, voice, values, disciplinary positions, immediacy and contextual dynamics. These questions are opened up to wider discussion with the audience through an interactive final session.
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- Smit, Warren, et al.
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What is meaningful collaboration? Reflections from work on food systems and urban regeneration
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This series of presentations draws on experiences from two recent Mistra-supported collaboration and co-production projects. It is made up of three aligned components. The first one aligns with a general understanding of co-production, that of the collaboration between academics and policy makers in the pursuit of sustainable neighbourhood development. The second investigates co-production between academics from different contexts and regions. The third one raises interesting questions about process, power, voice, values, disciplinary positions, immediacy and contextual dynamics.
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