Food and food security are not areas where municipalities have roles prescribed by law; nonetheless, they are responsible for a range of overlapping services and functions related to food. Competences for policymaking are divided across many different departments, local authorities, and agencies...

Food poverty and food waste are two major contemporary food system problems, which have (re)gained prominence amongst both scholars and policy-makers, due to recent economic and environmental concerns. In this context, the culturally dominant perspective portrays charitable food redistribution as a ...

The food system's decreasing ability to deliver food security has led to the emergence of food assistance initiatives. Food assistance is highly contested; as some argue, it is a "failure of the state", while others regard food assistance to be an "extension of the welfare state". Either way,...

Food security has been, in some way, expressly constitutionalized in Article 39 of the Treaty of Rome, as well as is today in Article 39 TFEU, requiring EU institutions to assure the availability of food supplies by increasing productivity and by ensuring the rational (today: 'sustainable')...

Food systems are at the center of global environmental, social, and economic challenges such as resource scarcity, ecosystem degradation, and climate change [1]. The current food systems are generating negative outcomes, such as land, water, and ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, excessive...

This paper discusses the issue of food security by making explicit reference to the duties of States to guarantee the right to adequate food. The different gradient layers of protection to be fulfilled by nations to ensure food security to their citizens are enumerated. The article aims to...

The performance of the EU food system during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic is examined in this article. The preliminary evidence from the early lockdown period in March to June 2020 supports the view that, apart from some experiences of empty supermarket shelves in the very first days...

Working to address gender issues is critical to advancing sustainable urban food systems, since women often experience significant inequalities that can affect their capacity to participate. We make the case for applying a gender lens within the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) monitoring...

Research has highlighted how new policy networks are transforming the food governance landscape, with pioneering urban governments addressing food security challenges through the adoption of what have been generically labelled urban food strategies (UFS). Yet within the literature on place-based...

This article presents an investigation of agricultural production risk over time and across space and its implications for food security. The econometric approach involves a Quantile Autoregressive (QAR) model and a copula to provide a flexible representation of the distribution of yield risk and...