Toward a Local Food Agenda in Turin: Mapping Practices and Processes Through Resilience

The aim of this chapter is to present the first results of interdisciplinary research that aims at understanding whether Turin has the assets and skills to build and manage a local food system, following a territorial approach. This analysis goes beyond a previous step of deconstructing the relationships between the “smart city” discourse and food policies and practices, which were presented in 2013 at the Fifth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning, in Montpellier, France (Dansero, Barbera, and Toldo 2013). In the first step of the research, presented here, ongoing food-related practices and processes in the Turin metropolitan area are interpreted through the conceptual framework of resilience.