The Torino Conference aims at exploring new frontiers of education and research, drawing inspiration by policies and practices already implemented or still in progress, and in the meantime bringing advancement over some key issues already tackled during previous SFP conferences.
To this end, Localizing urban food strategie simplies to relate education and research as well as policies and practices, to the national, regional and local levels, not only as administrative scales but as physical and cultural contexts in which food discourses have a deep influence on urban and regional planning agendas.
Track 1. Spatial planning and urban design: the track focuses on the ways to include food in spatial planning and design practices, policies, services and research.
Track 2. Governance and private entrepreneurship: the track focuses on urban food governance on the multi-sectoral, multi-level and multi-actor characteristics of food system management.
Track 3. Relevant experiences and practices: the track focuses on new relationship among rural areas, cities, nature and agriculture, the consequent transformations of need, cultural sensitivities and life styles.
Track 4. Training and jobs: the track focuses on the various ways through wich educational and training programmes deal with sustainable food planning, and how they prepare their target for future professional in this field.
Track 5. Flows and networks: the track focuses on relationship among cities, food productions and environmental implications and how food, crossing flows and networks, can contribute to define the wealth of society and quality of urban space.
