Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements

Dr Alessandra Manganelli is an urban scholar with a background in urban planning and governance. Through her research on the hybrid governance of food movements (KULeuven, VUB) she has gained particular interest and expertise in urban food system governance and planning. Among other positions, she has been a consultant for the Committee of the Regions of the European Farm to Fork Strategy (Brussels). She currently works as a senior research associate in the Research Training School “Urban Future-Making” (HafenCity University, Hamburg), funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Besides urban food governance, she deals with research related to experimental governance, socio-ecological justice, urban planning, and sustainability transitions.

• 1. Urban Food Movements. At the Outset of a Journey.- 2. Characterising Urban Food Movements.- 3. Hybrid Governance and its Tensions in Urban Food Movements.- 4. Tensions in the Governance of Land Resources in Toronto and Brussels.- 5. Organisational Governance Tensions of Food Movement Initiatives in Toronto and Brussels.- 6. Institutional Governance Tensions of Food Movements in Toronto and Brussels.