Nicole Defli, Graduated in agricultural and environmental sciences, specializing in applied geology, FUSILLI junior manager. Among the professors and researchers: Laura Prota, Assistant Professor of Economics at The American University of Rome, member of the Obervatory for Food Insecurity and Food Poverty of Rome Metropolitan City. Please find here a list of his recent works. His research activities started in the early 1990s with exploring the historical process of the industrial development of agricultural biotechnology with a special focus on corporate strategy of transnational agribusinesses and their interaction with national and international government regulations from a point of view of political economy. His Fields of Research are, today, International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food, Global Food Governance, Agri-food Politics and Sociology, Rural Development. Once the experimental phase is over, the aim is to structure the Observatory through adequate public support.įootnotes Professor Shuji Hisano is teaching at the Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food. The Observatory project has an experimental and innovative character, as it investigates food insecurity in its multidimensionality, making use of different tools of research that frame the problem of access to food within the wider space of social justice. Poverty is seen as a multidimensional phenomenon – “foodability concept” – which affects health, education and living standards. The Observatory works on three objectives: to Analyze the phenomenon of territorial poverty Understand the potential function of the food system Propose a real policy, and support a new advocacy action for the right to food, from the response to need to prevention and contrast policies. The project of an Observatory on Food Insecurity and Poverty was born from the need to measure the phenomenon and the food aid system, proposing, at the same time, effective policies to govern it. At present, we do not know if it will be possible to do so and in what time frame, we are confident in new investments. The hope is that this could be an interactive system in which cities, producers and all stakeholders can enter information and monitor evolution. Then, to analyze the gap between the present situation and the Food Plan, a document part of the Strategic Plan. The starting point of the Food Atlas was to consider food as a complexity, centrality and resilience. An innovative degree dissertation was then presented which identified urban agriculture as a strategic basis for promoting the vision of sustainable development. ![]() The differences in actions and reactions between small and larger cities were pointed out, to identify the most effective steps. ![]() They particularly appreciated the experience of our Living Lab and its transformation into the Food Council of Rome, and took interest in the stakeholders’ storytelling who underlined the importance of a bottom-up participatory process to obtain an effective local food policy.Īmong these, a researcher summarized the genesis and the next steps of the food policy situation in Italy, comparing it with examples from English-speaking countries and previous studies. During the visit, the Japanese delegation visited a farmer’s direct sales market and a social agricultural cooperative. He led the discussion – with the support of Rome FUSILLI team, together with his research team, practitioners, experts and some representative stakeholders from Rome’s Food Council, to join an intense seminar on food policies. ![]() The Japanese friends were welcomed guests at the Department of the Environment of the City of Rome and at Alderwoman Sabrina Alfonsi‘s office, invited by Professor Davide Marino. ![]() Professor Hisano, who dedicated himself for a long time to the study of rural sociology, and therefore to agriculture and rural development from a social point of view, was visiting Rome, and then other Italian cities, with the aim of gathering information on the development of food policies and the different processes that lead to their success. We were happy to discover that the attention to what is happening in Rome continues to increase! Last March 13th, a delegation from Kyoto University and City, led by professor Shuji Hisano, an expert in the political economy of agriculture, came here to study the participatory process of our Food Policy, the FUSILLI Living Lab – Food Council of Rome, and the tool of the Food Atlas and the Food Insecurity and Poverty Observatory of the Metropolitan City of Rome.Īcademics, Stakeholders, the FUSILLI team, policymakers and The Cities: it was a busy day for us all, an intense session of sharing of research, best practices, governance and foodpolicies’ processes.
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