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  • Publication | 2022

The process of politicizing food sustainability in the city of Brasilia: towards a transition of the local food system?

Global Food and Nutrition Security

There is widespread recognition in the literature that food systems are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, the depletion of groundwater resources, the irreversible loss of biodiversity, and other socio-environmental damage (Clark et al., 2019; Béné et al., 2020). Unsustainable food systems lead to the destabilization and loss of the regulatory functions on which human life depends (Campbell et al., 2017; Springmann et al., 2018). Many studies have thus highlighted the need for a transition to sustainable food systems (Stassart et al., 2012; Hinrichs, 2014; Jurgilevich et al., 2016; Caron et al., 2018; Springmann et al., 2018; Vermeulen et al., 2020). Given this need, cities are regarded by several authors as places of social mobilization and as important drivers of the innovation that can make this transition to sustainable food systems a reality (Brand et al., 2019).