Mapping change

Élodie Valette, Alison Blay-Palmer, Olivier Lepiller () and Amanda Di Battista
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Élodie Valette: UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UM - Université de Montpellier
Alison Blay-Palmer: WLU - Wilfrid Laurier University
Olivier Lepiller: UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: This introductory chapter describes the Urbal (Urban Driven Sustainable Food System Innovations) research approach that was developed by a multidisciplinary, international team of food system researchers and experts between 2018 and 2023. It explores how innovations can produce short-term changes and longer-term impacts on multiple dimensions of urban food system sustainability. Urbal enables and activates a better understanding of the flows in food system innovation processes and the impediments and enablers to increasingly sustainable food systems for innovators, policy/decision-makers, and funders. This chapter describes the key components of the Urbal approach and provides collective insights from the case studies, called Urban Food Innovation Labs (UFILS), which helped to test and refine this approach. The chapter reviews the working approach including Step 1 (interviews and environmental scan), Step 2 (workshop to engage in impact pathway mapping), and Step 3 (reporting back). There is an optional Step 4 to develop new or adjust existing indicators to monitor change over time. The chapter concludes with an overview of the flexibility of the Urbal approach, considerations about power asymmetries, and the value and role of experts and facilitators to the Urbal process.

Date: 2023
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Published in Valette Elodie; Blay-Palmer Alison; Intoppa Beatrice; Di Battista Amanda; Roudelle Ophélie; Chaboud Géraldine. Evaluating sustainable food system innovations: A global toolkit for cities, Routledge, pp.1-17, 2023, Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment, 978-1-032-25881-2. ⟨10.4324/9781003285441-1⟩

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