Feeding Sustainable Cities Platform reshaping the Portuguese foodscape

Delgado, Cecília

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The Portuguese national platform - Feeding Sustainable Cities started in June 2018 as a civil society initiative aiming at reshaping the Portuguese food systems. It started with roughly 40 members and only one year later 260 people were engaged, demonstrating a steady increase. This paper explores the following research questions: (1) To what extent internet and more broadly speaking ICTS can be a positive tool to improve food democracy in countries with limited civic engagement? (2) Are permanent engagement, co-learning and trust among food actors, the basic values substantiating a capacity to move from knowledge exchange to a more engaging advocacy capacity at political level? The results of the preliminary research suggest that food actors are willing to be better informed. However, they feel the need to broaden the debate through democratic horizontal exchange able to bypass power asymmetries which is proved to be facilitate by internet. In conclusion, in spite of the significant role played by this platform on building trust based on co-learning among national food actors, it seems to be still too soon to conclude that it can move from a multi-stakeholder to co-governance food movement.