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Rome, a Policy without Politics: The Participatory Process for a Metropolitan Scale Food Policy

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  • Giampiero Mazzocchi

    (Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy)

  • Davide Marino

    (Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy)

Abstract

In light of the challenges that all cities face today, food is offered as a prism through which to read and intervene on various areas that affect the quality of life of the population: circular economy, urban metabolism, social relations, economies, and food quality. In the Roman context, in recent years, numerous initiatives have revitalized the debate on food and brought the discussion to the center of the interest of an ever-increasing number of citizens. However, these experiences appear unrelated and there is a lack of coordination and political coherence. Faced with this evidence, starting from a territorial analysis, this contribution analyzes the process that led a local group of stakeholders to formulate a proposal for a food policy for the city of Rome. The proposal contains a series of possible actions that aim, on the one hand, to recompose the relations between the city and its territory, with a view to re-localization and re-territorialization of agro-food productions and, on the other hand, to reconnect the economic and social relations that the industrialization of food chains has compromised. The network analysis of the bottom-up process, which mainly investigates networking and negotiation skills between various interests, is carried out and related to a careful analysis of the food system in the Roman context. Furthermore, an overview of the state of the art of urban food policies in Italy has been provided to better contextualize the study case. The findings show actors and topics involved in the process, identifying further development towards a more comprehensive participatory process for a systemic food strategy at the metropolitan level.

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  • Giampiero Mazzocchi & Davide Marino, 2020. "Rome, a Policy without Politics: The Participatory Process for a Metropolitan Scale Food Policy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(2), pages 1-18, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:2:p:479-:d:307722
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