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Koen van der Gaast
Food and Healthy Living Group, Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Almere, Netherlands

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Journal article
Published: 27 August 2021 in International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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This paper presents the sustainable food entrepreneurship framework (SFEF). It aims to further the understanding of the role of entrepreneurship in the sustainability transition of the food system, especially in the context of food system re-localization. The framework conceptualizes sustainable food entrepreneurship as a cyclical ongoing process of change. We argue this enables transcending the behaviour of entrepreneurs and their enterprises and map the ongoing development they fit into. The framework is based on literature reviews and expert interviews in the Dutch city-region of Almere–Flevoland. Theoretically, it expands on effectuation and bricolage theory, i.e. the ‘resourcefulness perspective’, that centres the socio-material context in the entrepreneurial process. The framework assumes the uncertainty of sustainability incites a cyclical process of change and implores entrepreneurs to reflect on the past before imagining the future. These imagined futures must be fitted to the socio-material context before emerging as artefacts (e.g. products, services or firms), which incites new uncertainties and a new cycle of change. Our framework has implications for policy and science. Its temporal dimension, that accentuates the continuous change entrepreneurship spurs, incites a reevaluation of terms such as ‘success’ and ‘failure’. Moreover, it stresses the importance of intermediary actors in facilitating entrepreneurship.

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Koen van der Gaast; Eveline van Leeuwen; Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 2021, 1 -17.

AMA Style

Koen van der Gaast, Eveline van Leeuwen, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 2021; ():1-17.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Koen van der Gaast; Eveline van Leeuwen; Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. 2021. "Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship." International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability , no. : 1-17.

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Published: 24 March 2020 in Sustainability
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Theory and practice show that second-tier cities can play an important role in linking the urban and the rural. Second-tier cities are the middle ground of the urban system. The smaller spatial scale of second-tier cities, and their often-stronger connections with the rural hinterland can potentially enable a more sustainable food system. In this paper, we argue that the extent to which the benefits ascribed to the re-localisation of food can be achieved greatly depends on the contextual specifics of the second-tier city and the region in which it is embedded. Furthermore, we argue that to reach resilient, healthy and environmentally friendly city region food systems, three contextual elements need to be considered in their mutual coherence: (1) the historical development of the second-tier city and the region; (2) the proximity of food production to the second-tier city; (3) the scale and reach of the city region’s food system. We use the case-study of the Dutch city Almere to show how (a controlled) growth of cities can be combined with maintaining (or even increasing) the strength of adjacent rural areas. Such cities can play a role in creating Garden Regions: regions that foster healthy, sustainable and resilient food systems and that do not just connect urban and rural regions, but also connect city region food systems to national and global markets.

ACS Style

Koen Van Der Gaast; Eveline Van Leeuwen; Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. City-Region Food Systems and Second Tier Cities: From Garden Cities to Garden Regions. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2532 .

AMA Style

Koen Van Der Gaast, Eveline Van Leeuwen, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. City-Region Food Systems and Second Tier Cities: From Garden Cities to Garden Regions. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (6):2532.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Koen Van Der Gaast; Eveline Van Leeuwen; Sigrid Wertheim-Heck. 2020. "City-Region Food Systems and Second Tier Cities: From Garden Cities to Garden Regions." Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2532.