The 2nd Edible Cities Network Conference: Advancing the Edible City: Ideas, Practices and Systems. 15–17 March 2023

Advancing the Edible City will bring together leading researchers, policymakers and city administrators, civil society actors, green city activists and entrepreneurs to explore the ideas, practices, and systems necessary to support the sustainable, resilient and socially just development of our cities’ food systems. The conference is co-organised and hosted by RMIT University, the Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Rethinking the concept and practice of edible cities for engagins the margins

Moderator: lna Saumel, Assistant Professor, Humboldt University of Berlín

Nature-based school-making
•Filka Sekulova, Postdoctoral Researcher, Open University of Catalunya (UOC)
The long game to introduce urban agriculture in unlikely communities
•Jess Halliday, Chief Executive, RUAF Global Partnership on Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems
Barriers and strategies for the implementation of edible nature-based solutions
•Joana Castellar, Postdoctoral Researcher, ICRA, and Alexandra Popartan, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Girona