Abstract
Circular economy for food (CE) and food policies (FP) are two emerging but already prominent research areas, particularly when talking about the cities of the future. This paper analyzes the dynamics between these two fields of research, starting from review articles and the analysis of a case study, underlying the fundaments that FP and CE share. In particular, this paper focuses on using circular economy (CE) indicators and strategies to shape urban food policies (FP) to create a new business and political model towards sustainability. It introduces four converging perspectives, emerging from the literature, and analyzes how they have been integrated in the case study RePoPP (Re-design Project of Organic waste in Porta Palazzo market), a circular project born from the FP of the City of Turin (Italy). RePoPP is indeed a multi-actor project of urban circular food policies against food waste, which demonstrates how a circular approach can be the turning point in the creation of new food policies. This article wants to define for the first time a new research framework called “circular economy for food policy”, along with its characteristics: the application of a systemic approach and CE to problems and solutions, the need for a transdisciplinary and integrated project design for the 9R (responsibility, react, reduce, reuse, re-design, repair, recover, recycle, and rot), the use of food as a pivot of cross-sectoral change, and a new form of collaborative and integrated governance.
Highlights
Growing urbanization poses new challenges and problems to the world, many of which are related to food production and consumption
circular economy (CE) is an alternative model based on the assumption that a shift from a linear economy “take, make, and dispose” to a circular and regenerative one which dialogues with nature is needed because the current economy creates an apparent fragile abundance [16]
This paper tried to set the basis for a new transdisciplinary scholarship, defined the circular economy for food policy (CEFFP), showing the convergences and applications that the use of CE can have, and should have, in the design of food system policies
Summary
Growing urbanization poses new challenges and problems to the world, many of which are related to food production and consumption. The demand for resources in urban areas grows, environmental problems increase, socio-economic differences among citizens expand [3], and new energy needs arise [4]. A new food insecurity has crossed the threshold of cities all around the world, no longer relegated to under-nutrition but characterized by a double burden of malnutrition, namely the coexistence of a lack and excess of nutrition [5,6]. The increased risk of mortality associated with the poor nutritional value of food has exceeded that of diseases relating to lack of calorific intake. While one third of the world s population has food security problems (about 868 million undernourished people), 1.5 billion people are obese or overweight. The approximately 29 million deaths worldwide due to overeating are rapidly reaching the 36 million caused by food shortages [7]
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