Sustainable Food System Assessment

Alison Blay-Palmer is Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaDamien Conaré is Secrétaire general of the Chaire Unesco Alimentations du monde, Montpellier SupAgro, FranceKen Meter is President of the Crossroads Resource Center, USAAmanda Di Battista is a Project Coordinator at the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, CanadaCarla Johnston is a PhD candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Laurier Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada

• 1. Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from global practice Part I Conceptual Foundations 2. An Emerging User-led Participatory Methodology: Mapping Impact Pathways of Urban Food System Sustainability Innovations 3. Taking care of the land: an interdisciplinary approach to community-based food systems assessment in Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada 4. Assessing Food Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Conceptual Views and US Applications Part II Operationalizing Sustainable Food System Assessment 5. Data gaps and the politics of data: Generating appropriate data for food system assessment in Cape Town, South Africa 6. Action research as a tool to measure progress in sustainable food cities: enacting reflexive governance principles to develop indicators 7. Building consensus on sustainable food system assessment: applying a Delphi survey Part III Impacts and outcomes of sustainable food system assessment 8. Building the foundation to grow food policy: the development of a toolkit to measure advocacy capacity 9. Tools for Food System Change: City Region Food System Assessment, Planning and Policy 10. Assessing responsible food consumption in three Ecuadorian city regions 11. Integrating Upstream Determinants and Downstream Food Metrics 12. The View from Here: A Critical Consideration of Sustainable Food System Assessments