A sustainability scoring system to assess food initiatives in city regions

• DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2022.12.022
• Publication Date: 2022-12-30T17:25:21Z
• Authors: Francesco Cirone; Mara Petruzzelli; Fabio De Menna; Antonella Samoggia; Enrico Buscaroli; Emanuele Durante; Francesco Orsini; Martí Rufí-Salís; Pietro Tonini; Xavier Gabarrell ...; Luuk Graamans; Agnès Fargue-Leli...; Vèronique Saint-Ges; Runrid Fox-Kämper; Kathrin Specht; José J. Pascual-F...; Matteo Vittuari
• Keywords: City Region Food Systems; 2. Zero hunger; 330; Scoring mechanism; food system resilience; 1. No poverty; 710; Sustainability performance; 01 natural sciences; Article; 6. Clean water; 12. Responsible consumption; City region food system initiatives; Life cycle thinking; Multi-stakeholder approach; Scoring mechanism; Sustainability performance; City region food system initiatives; 13. Climate action; 11. Sustainability; Multi-stakeholder approach; nutrition security; Life cycle thinking; [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

The City Region Food Systems approach has been proposed to achieve food system resilience and nutrition security while promoting the urgent ecological transition within urban peri-urban areas, especially after COVID-19 pandemic. However, great diversity of initiatives composing in Europe poses barriers assessment their integrated sustainability. Hence, present work is developed EU-H2020 project System European Cities (FoodE), build a consistent sustainability scoring that allows comparative evaluation Initiatives. Adopting Life Cycle Thinking approach, it advances on existing knowledge past projects, taking advantage participatory process, with stakeholders from multidisciplinary expertise. As result, research designs, tests 100 case studies simplified ready-to-use mechanism based quali-quantitative appraisal survey tool, delivering final score 1–5 points scale, get insights social, economic, environmental impacts. line needs UN Sustainable Development Goals, outcome represents step forward for sustainable development social innovation communities cities regions, providing practical empirical lens improved planning governance.