Experimenting with urban food governance. Ambitions, limits, directions, problems, trajectories

Abstract

Between 19 and 22 June, the 11th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference 'Building Movement, Achieving Transformation' was held in Brussels and Ghent. The conference provided a valuable opportunity for geographers, planners and public policy analysts to gain insight into the potential for movements to incorporate and champion sustainable food planning, as well as the capacity of communities to propose alternative food strategies. Within the conference, the authors of the paper had the pleasure of chairing a thematic session dedicated to 'innovative governance and policy frameworks'. The following contribution aims to provide a compendium of what emerged from the thematic session to offer new insights for future research.