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The CityChangers Podcast #13: Cake, Brew and Mend

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In our throwaway culture, binning a broken object and buying a replacement is often the easiest, and cheapest, solution. But the take-make-waste economy has serious costs – for the environment and for society. So, what...
Food Waste

In the Eye of the Beholder: One Co-op’s Quest to Make Ugly Fruit Beautiful

Mariano Trevino -
Would you eat misshapen fruit or vegetables to save our planet? Portuguese co-op Fruta Feia successfully diverts ‘ugly’ produce from waste streams by buying it directly from farmers and selling it to customers in...
Climate Adaptation

Schoonschip: A Community-built Floating Neighbourhood

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This article was written by Jose Rodriguez of the European Cultural Foundation, based in the Netherlands. It was originally published here on the website for the Creating Actionable Futures (CrAFt) project as part of the New...
Food Systems

CityChanger Betina Bergmann Madsen: Good Food and the Power of Procurement

Mariano Trevino -
From lab-grown meat to farming underground, there are plenty of bold new ideas promising to revolutionise our food system. But what can we do today? The city of Copenhagen is leading the way in...
Urban Farming

Back to the Farms of the Future: A Viennese Vision for Urban Agriculture

Mariano Trevino -
What will the farms of the future look like in an increasingly urbanised world? We take a trip to the Zukunftshof, a pioneering initiative in Austria that wants to model a more sustainable approach...
Urban Farming

Urban Agriculture Projects in Europe

Metka Novak -
With the increase in cities’ populations comes the higher need for food in an, often dense, urban environment. How to best make use of the little space left, and feed the citizens with healthy,...
Food Waste

From the Linear to the Circular: How Guelph-Wellington is Closing the Circle on Food Waste

Mariano Trevino -
What would it take to create the first truly circular food economy? In Southwestern Ontario, Canada, the small city of Guelph and the surrounding county of Wellington have set themselves the goal of finding...
Farm to Fork

A Match Made in the Garden: The Platform Connecting Urban Gardeners With a Place to Grow Their Own

Mariano Trevino -
How can cities unlock more land for urban agriculture when space comes at such a premium? For London based platform AllotMe, the solution starts with looking more closely at our own backyards. As any city...
Food Systems

Notable City Haarlem: Advertising a Better Food Future

Mariano Trevino -
In 2021, the city of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, submitted a draft to became the first city in the world to ban meat advertising in public spaces. The move was a lightning rod for...
Food

Food for Thought: Facts & Figures

Karl Dickinson -
Food is a massive and complex matter. In nature, food chains have to find a balance to prevent ecosystems from collapsing. Our human-made food network is no different. As the statistics show, a sustainable...
Food Systems

Food Trails: A Framework to Drive Change in European Urban Food Systems

Siobhan Maderson -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Siobhan Maderson, Food Trails Research Associate at Cardiff University, Wales. In it, she explains how the Food Trails project (of which Cardiff University is a partner) has...
Urban Farming

The Case for Urban Agriculture

Mariano Trevino -
Can growing food in urban environments help to nourish an increasingly hungry world without sacrificing the planet in the process? As more and more of us discover the joys of a green thumb, we...
Food

The Case for Sustainable Food Systems

Karl Dickinson -
Food is a funny, fickle friend... or is that foe? While we all need it, the industries concerned with producing, packing, distributing, and clearing up after foodstuff can make this dependency majorly problematic - for...
Food

Notable City Paris: The Cultivated Capital

Mariano Trevino -
The French capital’s ambitious vision for urban agriculture is in full bloom. We take a look at the city’s signature Parisculteurs programme to understand why its unique approach is receiving world-wide attention. From ‘the city...
Food Waste

The Case for Reducing Food Waste

Mariano Trevino -
Waste not, want not – why not? Changing the way we manage food waste is an important step toward improving the global food system and making the cities we live in more sustainable. A...
Farm to Fork

The Case for Changing The Way We Eat

Mariano Trevino -
Will humans stomach a different diet to create a more sustainable future? And what can cities do to alter our eating habits? We take a look at the meat and potatoes of changing what...
Food

The Challenges of Creating a Sustainable Food System

Karl Dickinson -
We all need it, but many of us don’t have enough of it, and a lot of what we can get is bad for us. Up there with water and oxygen, food is one...
Inclusive Cities

Notable City: Tanga – Generating City-Wide Benefits by Boosting Youth Social Mobility

Karl Dickinson -
Through population growth and in-migration, cities are only going to increase in number and size. This presents a challenge: how do we ensure citizens’ needs are addressed adequately as urban environments sprawl at an...
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