Recovery from the pandemic

Planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities

Book chapter (2024)

Authors

Tianzhu Liu University of Bern
W.K. Korthals Altes Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
Frédéric Wallet INRAE center Occitanie-Toulouse
Romain Melot INRAE - Campus Agro Paris-Saclay
Research Group
Urban Development Management (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2024 Tianzhu Liu, W.K. Korthals Altes, Frédéric Wallet, Romain Melot
Spatial planning Covid-19 Access to land Local food system Food planning Short food supply chain
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Published Date

2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Management in the Built Environment

Research Group

Urban Development Management

Abstract

This chapter discusses planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities as an avenue of the Covid-19 pandemic recovery. Reterritorialisation indicates local food being targeted to local inhabitants instead of the global market. We argue that the pandemic has accelerated the reterritorialisation process. Supply chain actors actively responded to the local market, local agrifood sector labour was revalued, the rural-urban linkage was rebuilt along with the lifestyle change, and public political awareness was raised in engaging local agrifood issues. We propose planning the reterritorialisation of agriculture as a solution to perpetuating local agrifood activities and recovering from the pandemic. We discuss planning strategies from perspectives of access to land, the transition of farming practices, and structuring local supply chains. We conclude with research agenda drawn from the challenges faced by the coexistence of local and global food systems, the policy coherence and the juxtaposed complex issues like climate change and geopolitical conflicts.