ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the fragility of food sovereignty in cities and confirmed the close connection urban dwellers have with food. Although the pandemic was not the cause of the failures in food systems, it emphasised how citizens would accept and indeed support a transition towards more localised food production systems. The challenge is not to return to traditional small-scale economies that might not cope with the growing global population and demands, but to reconstruct, consolidate, and disseminate systems knowledge through harmonising the priorities of local governments and city-region food system initiatives to build more resilient and sustainable food systems. This chapter aims to investigate and analyse the concept of City Region Food Systems applied to a set of real case studies (food initiatives) at the macro and micro level to explore the conditions for their resilience and suggest food system innovation perspectives that encourage good practices.
