Submitted by laborate on wed, 31/10/2012 - 13:12 GMT.
Last October, 27th the results of the
International Seminar on Local Food Systems,
organized by the Master in Sustainable Land Planning and
the University of Van Hall Larenstein
(Netherlands), were presented in an event held at the IBADER.
In this seminar nine students from Holland collaborated
with 19 students of the Master in Sustainable Land Planning
in the generation of proposals aimed at encouraging the
development of local food systems in the city of Lugo and
its surroundings.
During the seminar students attended lectures given by
professor Alfonso Morales
- local food systems expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(USA) -, conducted interviews with local food producers
and sellers, several members of the local government, neighborhood
associations or orchards users by the Rato river,
to mention some. There was also a visit to the farm
Vida de Aldea, a project that
seeks finding creative alternatives in the generation of
new sources of revenue, such as renting plots for farming
or restoring old buildings to be rented as lounges for helding
events.
The students' work resulted in the creation of four possible
scenarios for the city of Lugo, depending on the amount
of funds available in the future and the public awareness
of environmental and food safety:
- Bad, Worse, Disaster, in the course of few resources and little awareness,
- Large scale Lugo, in the course of many resources and little awareness,
- Crisis asks for creativity, in the course of few resources and a lot of awareness,
- Green paradise, in the course of many resources and much awareness.
These scenarios suggest new ideas and creative ways to promote
urban agriculture and trade in local products. Because students
have not a professional carrer yet, they were not influenced
by preconceptions within the scope of work of their specialties;
thus, they gave an alternative view. Besides, the larger
than usual participation of foreign students introduced
new ways of working and analizing the problems from outside
the context analyzed, which led to imaginative and alternative
proposals to get the city of Lugo and its influence area
benefit from the creation of a local food system.
downloads:
- "Bad, Worst, Disaster" [PDF, ~1.4 MB]
- "Crisis asks for creativity" [PDF, 3.4 MB]
- "Green paradise" [PDF, ~4 MB]
- "Large scale Lugo" [PDF, ~4.1 MB]
- "The foodlandscape of Lugo" [PDF, ~3.6 MB]