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This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility of the evolving City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows of resources—food, waste, people, and knowledge—from rural to peri-urban to urban and back again, and the policies and process needed to enable sustainability. This paper reflects on (1) CRFS merits compared to other approaches; (2) the operational potential of applying the CRFS approach to existing projects through case analysis; (3) how to make the CRFS approach more robust and ways to further operationalize the approach; and (4) the potential for the CRFS approach to address complex challenges including integrated governance, territorial development, metabolic flows, and climate change. The paper begins with the rationale for CRFS as both a conceptual framework and an integrative operational approach, as it helps to build increasingly coherent transformational food systems. CRFS is differentiated from existing approaches to understand the context and gaps in theory and practice. We then explore the strength of CRFS through the conceptual building blocks of 'food systems' and 'city-regions' as appropriate, or not, to address pressing complex challenges. As both a multi-stakeholder, sustainability-building approach and process, CRFS provides a collective voice for food actors across scales and could provide coherence across jurisdictions, policies, and scales, including the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Habitat III New Urban Agenda, and the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21. CRFS responds directly to calls in the literature to provide a conceptual and practical framing for policy through wide engagement across sectors that enables the co-construction of a relevant policy frame that can be enacted through sufficiently integrated policies and programs that achieve increasingly sustainable food systems.

Cet ouvrage saura convaincre le lecteur de s'intéresser aux fruits et légumes et l'amèner à comprendre que leur production par des petites exploitations est essentielle à la réalisation des Objectifs de développement durable établis par les Nations Unies. Au fil de cinq chapitres, le lecteur découvrira les défis et les opportunités de ce secteur pour les producteurs, les distributeurs et les consommateurs. Chapitre 1 : définition opérationnelle des fruits et légumes et utilité du soutien des petits agriculteurs et des chaînes de valeur. Chapitre 2 : options de gestion agricole durable, notamment en ce qui concerne les ressources phytogénétiques, les systèmes de semences et la gestion de l'eau, des sols, des éléments nutritifs ainsi que des ravageurs et des maladies. Chapitre 3 : options à envisager pour intégrer les petits producteurs de fruits et légumes à vocation commerciale dans des chaînes de valeur socialement inclusives, y compris des services post-récolte novateurs, des débouches commerciaux et la réduction des pertes et du gaspillage alimentaires. Chapitre 4 : options à envisager par les praticiens et les responsables politiques dans des cadres gouvernementaux, institutionnels et sociaux en vue de promouvoir la production durable et la consommation de fruits et légumes nutritifs et sains à prix abordable. Chapitre 5 : interventions et innovations majeures permettant de favoriser la production durable de fruits et légumes dans la plupart des pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire du monde. Cet ouvrage emmène le lecteur à la découverte d'un large éventail de fruits et de légumes au fil d'études de cas richement illustrées sélectionnées dans le monde entier. Il lui explique également pourquoi les fruits et légumes sont si importants et l'engage à contribuer activement à promouvoir leur production et leur consommation.

This book will convince the reader to care about fruit and vegetables and to see that the small-scale production of these crops is fundamental to achieving sustainable development goals. In five chapters, the reader will learn about the challenges and rewards for producers, sellers, and consumers. Chapter 1: a working definition for fruit and vegetables, making the case for supporting small-scale farmers and value chains. Chapter 2: options for farm management to ensure that production is sustainable including genetic resources, seed systems, management of water, soil, nutrients, and control of pests and diseases. Chapter 3: options to integrate small-scale commercial fruit and vegetable farmers into socially inclusive value chains, including innovative post-harvest handling services, market linkages, and reducing food loss and waste. Chapter 4: options for practitioners and policymakers at different governmental, institutional and social levels to promote the sustainable production and consumption of safe, nutritious, and affordable fruit and vegetables. Chapter 5: key interventions and innovations to facilitate the sustainable production of fruit and vegetables in low- and middle-income countries across the world. This publication takes readers on a journey introducing them to a diverse array of fruit and vegetables through colorfully illustrated studies from around the world. It justifies the importance of these crops and it encourages readers to take an active role both in promoting fruit and vegetable production and in encouraging more people to eat them.