Identity Through Food: Food Sensitive Planning in the Municipality of Ridderkerk, The Netherlands (original) (raw)

The globalization of the food system is considered as one of the causes of a region’s loss of identity; the disconnection of people and place. Recently, cities started to develop urban food strategies in order to reconnect people and food. Guidance on how to integrate food into spatial planning and design is necessary to develop integral regional plans. Therefore, the following research question is formulated: What steps to adopt ‘food-sensitive planning’ on the local level can be defined? To explore steps in food planning an analysis of food strategies developed for London, Amsterdam and Malmö (Sweden) was carried out. The food strategies were studied for their characteristics (goals, target group and approach) and their integration in other local policies. The municipality of Ridderkerk formed a case study to analyze food related challenges and food policy solutions. A synthesis of the food strategies provided a five-step plan to integrate food sensitive planning in existing plans...