Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City

1. Relations Between Agriculture and the City in Europe and the Mediterranean
Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin, Elodie Valette

Part I. Systemic Approaches of Urban-Agricultural Relations

2. Food, Integrating Urban and Agricultural Dynamics in Pisa, Italy
Sylvie Lardon, Marie Houdart, Salma Loudiyi, Rosalia Filippini, Elisa Marraccini

3. Logistic Issues and Impacts of Short Food Supply Chains: Case Studies in Nord – Pas de Calais, France
Amélie Gonçalves, Thomas Zeroual

4. Interactions Between Agriculture and the City: A Systemic Approach to Examine Sustainability in Meknes (Morocco)
Jean-Pierre Chery, Elodie Valette, Patrick Dugué, Pascale Philifert, Abdellaoui Hassane

5. Urban Farms Under Pressure: Cairo’s Dairy Producers, Egypt
Annabelle Daburon, Véronique Alary, Ahmed Ali, Mohamed Sorougy, Jean François Tourrand

Part II. Methods and Tools to Design Sustainable Urban Food Systems

6. An Ecological Footprint-Based Spatial Zoning Approach for Sustainable Metropolitan Agro-Food Systems
Dirk Wascher, Leonne Jeurissen, Jan-Eelco Jansma, Michiel Eupen

7. Food Cells and Food Nodes. Two New Concepts for Rethinking Traditional Urban and Food Planning Practices. The Case of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Region
Sonia Callau, Josep Montasell, Andreu Vila

8. The Integration Between Mediterranean Cities and Agriculture in Local Projects. A Conceptual Framework
Salma Loudiyi, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Patricia Abrantes, Sylvie Lardon, Guilhem Mousselin, Pascale Scheromm, Elodie Valette, Ouassila Bendjaballah, Françoise Jarrige

Part III. Inventory of Changes in Urban Agriculture

9. Innovative Commercial Urban Agriculture in the Paris Metropolitan Area
Christine Aubry, Anne-Cécile Daniel

10. Zero-Acreage Farming: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Policies and Partnerships
Susanne Thomaier

11. The Emergence of Municipal Allotment Gardens in Greece in Times of Crisis. Governance Challenges for New Urban Gardening Practices
Theodosia Anthopoulou, Sofia Nikolaidou, Maria Partalidou, Michael Petrou

12. The Proliferation of Collective Gardens in Lisbon (Portugal) and Montpellier (France): Urban Residents Demand and Municipal Support
Pascale Scheromm, Guilhem Mousselin

13. The Governance of Urban Agriculture and Multifunctional Land Use in the City of Zurich
Ingrid Jahrl, Otto Schmid

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urbanism, Agricultural Economics