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Joint Event
Nutrition and Health
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International Conference on
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International Conference on
Diabetes and Endocrinology
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Journal of Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism | Volume 2
A
fter several decades of the development of productivist
agriculture and the increasing recognition of the negative
environmental consequences of this type of agriculture,
food markets have begun to evolve quite rapidly in the
last 20 years or so. Increasingly Sustainable Agricultures
have become the center of attention. The sustainability
dimension not only refer to reasonable incomes generated
for farmers who are the basis of much food production, but
also the reduction of negative environmental consequences
in terms of water pollution and in terms of the quality of the
foodstuffs produced for human health. The health issues
have also become an important dimension of Food Security.
This evolution has been recognized in the development
of many small-scale food production projects based on
agriculture around cities as well as with the development
of Food Land Belts comprised of many small and medium
scale food projects around cities such as Liège, Belgium, and
Montreal, Canada, and their development in other countries
such as China. In this presentation, we discuss the rise of
sustainable agricultures and their roles in food markets and
in dealing with food security issues. We also present the
characteristics of Food Land Belts that make them successful,
recognizing that the conditions for success can vary
substantially between the surroundings of different cities,
as well as the conditions that can give rise to unsuccessful
Food Land Belt projects. The roles of farmers as producers
and citizens as consumers, as well as social organizations in
achieving success for Food Land Belts are also emphasized.
Speaker Biography
Christopher Robin Bryant has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political
Science (1970) and has been Professor at the Universities of Waterloo (1070-1990) and
Montréal (1990 to 2014) and is currently Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental
Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph (1912 onwards), and he is also
Adjunct Professor, Geography Department, University of Montreal (2014 onwards).
His fields of research are: Agriculture in and around cities and metropolitan centers;
community development; land use planning; strategic development planning for
communities, organizations and agriculture; resilience building for communities exposed
to flooding and climate variability; adaptation of agriculture and tourism development to
climate change and variability. He is placed in the top 5% of researchers on Research Gate.
e:
christopher.robin.bryant@gmail.comChristopher Robin Bryant
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Antonia D Bousbaine
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, Zheng Zong
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University of Guelph, Canada,
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University of Liège, Belgium
3
Harbin Institute of Technology,
The rise of sustainable agricultures as food markets evolve and food security becomes
a major challenge: The roles and characteristics of sustainable agricultures in food
land belts around cities