The potential of trans-local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems - The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda

To foster more sustainable food systems, collaboration between local governments for knowledge exchange and cooperation is essential. Trans-local food policy networks potentially serve this purpose but their functioning and outcomes remain largely unexplored. We address this gap by analyzing collaboration and its outcomes for one of the first trans-local food policy networks in the Netherlands: City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda. We use Ansell and Gash's collaborative governance model as an ideal type to analyze the City Deal drawing on two rounds of semi-structured interviews with civil serv... Mehr ...