Creating places around food

Whats the role of food in creating identities around places? Complex first of all. But increasingly its also becoming the focus of research and policy making.

Take a look and get impressions from the presentations given at the symposium "Food & Place – how the public can contribute to sustainable foodtures and intangible value creation held Tuesday August 29, 9.00-12.30

Introduction to the symposium, Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Aalborg University

Food & the city - case of Montpellier, Claire Cerdan; CIRAD

Food; the Region  & the City – how the city of Aalborg public contributes to sustainable foodtures and local food identity creation. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Aalborg University

What's in a place name? When the rise of protection coincides with the fall of tradition. Maurizio Canavari, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna & Katia Laura Sidali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano