(Conference) Democratizing Food Governance

Democratizing Food Governance

Rome, Italy

Friday, October 14, 2016

For more information and registration details, please visit the website or view the poster
Themes of the Conference:

• Sustainability, food security and new forms of governance
• Emerging new forms of coordination among local food initiatives at different scales
• Examples of networks and partnerships in the food economy: how they work; constraints and strengths; successes and failures.
• The role of civil society, the State, the private sector and consumers in the new forms of governance
• The role of the State in creating spaces for empowered and participative forms of governance in the food economy
• New forms of regulation and new policies for the emerging regional and local-based food system
• Institutional mechanisms striving for balance of power among actors in networks and partnerships.
• The subsidiarity principle: its role and implementation in the governance of the emerging food systems.
• The role of different forms of knowledge – local and expert – in the new forms of governance of local-based food economies
• Access to data and information in the public domain
• The voice of local actors in the new forms of governance
• Modern supply chains and local food initiatives
• Public food procurement, food banks and school lunch programs
• Innovation and learning among actors at various scales
• How to favour convergence toward the ‘common good’ in the food economy among different stake-holders
• Creating new public policy space for re-shaping food planning agendas.