Author(s): Cardoso, Andreia de Sousa Saavedra
Date: 2017
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14960
Origin: Repositório da UTL
Project/scholarship: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F78547%2F2011/PT;
Subject(s): landscape planning; food planning; food security; local food systems; foodsheds
Doutoramento em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The present dissertation is focused on the study of contemporary Food Planning, an emerging area of interdisciplinary research, with greater development in Europe, U.S.A. and Canada. The limits to the approaches for the conservation of agricultural land, current at the end of the century XX, have been identified in several countries, including France, where peri-urban agricultural policies, have been implemented since the 70s. In the 90s, the experiences of collective action of local initiative by elected officials, urban residents and managers of rural areas, have helped to limit urbanisation and to the development of agricultural projects – agrourban programs. These were designed to protect the economic viability of agriculture through development programs, which in the metropolitan context take into account the specificity of the peri-urban agriculture and its potential for the development of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). In this context, knowing the productive potential of a region on the basis of existing food needs is of paramount importance to policies aimed at creating Local Food Systems or Territorial Food Systems. Considering the role of Landscape Architecture in ecologically based Landscape Planning, the main objective of this thesis is to evaluate the proposal for food system relocalisation, considering production side of the food system, in the case study area – Ribatejo e Oeste. The results of the Landscape Foodshed Plans to be presented will demonstrate the potential for the relocalisation of the food system, while ensuring the sustainable use of the regional ecological basis of food security. In the context of the current debate on diets sustainability in the Global North countries, three diets will be tested with variable degrees of affluence, to take in account differences in land use
