SURFIT

One of the key challenges for sustainable urban food systems is to shorten the food supply chain between food producers and consumers. Sustainable food networks (SFNs) attempt to achieve this but struggle to scale up due to their often isolated and marginal position. The SURFIT project will bring together SFNs, local policy makers and a multidisciplinary group of researchers from four medium-sized cities (Trento, Krakow, Lund and Maastricht) to explore the scaling up of urban regenerative food networks. Drawing on the research findings of the Urban Food Labs, the project will provide design principles to reflexively guide the development and scaling up of SFNs.