Local food systems as key to comprehensive integrative governance of sustainability (KERNiG)

Food systems are currently hardly embedded in the municipal sustainability governance. Food production and provisioning is highly structured horizontally (between food products) and vertically (along the supply chain); and municipalities do not seem to be in control of the food market. Against this background we address the following research questions:

• How can smaller cities include food systems in their local agendas as cross-cutting theme and thereby initiate and perpetuate comprehensive processes of local sustainable transformations?
• How does the deliberate planning of local food systems interact with existing sustainability strategies in the fields of energy and mobility?
• Which processes of integration in policy, market, society, and knowledge networks are necessary to achieve a successful governance of sustainability through municipal food systems planning?

• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung im Rahmen der Sozial-ökologischen Forschung (SÖF), Deutschland

• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Universität Kassel
• Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen
• Stadt Leutkirch im Allgäu
• Stadt Waldkirch
• NAHhaft – zukunftsfähige Ernährungsstrategien in Städten e.V., Berlin

• Dr. Basil Bornemann
• Prof. Dr. Peter H. Feindt
• Franz-Reinhard Habbel
• Gudrun Heute-Bluhm
• Prof. Dr. Clare Hinrichs
• Roger Kehle
• Prof. Dr.Dr. Martina Schäfer
• Wolfgang Teubner
• Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer

• Moschitz Heidrun (Department of Food System Sciences)

• Frick Rebekka (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Meier Matthias (Departement für Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme)

Leitung Subteilprojekt „Bestandsaufnahme kommunaler Lebensmittelflüsse und ihrer Umweltwirkungen“

• Agri-Food Systems (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Society & Innovation (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Sustainability (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)