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[EN] There has been increased academic attention on enhancing the effectiveness of knowledge-policy interfaces at the international level for urgent food systems transformation. However, previous literature signals that actions to improve science, policy, and society relations occur at multiple scales and often through informal avenues. This paper examines the potential role of multi-actor urban food governance spaces in developing more inclusive and territorialised knowledge-policy interfaces; a subject rarely investigated in the literature. To do so, the study proposes a three-dimensional analytical framework that acknowledges their place-based and networked nature. This framework is applied in València and Barcelona, focusing on the knowledge practices within multi-actor urban food governance spaces and their interrelations with the politics of evidence-informed policymaking. The results illustrate that such spaces function as a form of informal knowledge-policy interfaces that promote local and multi-scalar collective learning and knowledge co-production. However, whether knowledge from such spaces becomes a key part of policymaking grapples with issues of limited administrative capacities, scarce data, and lack of political prioritisation of food in the municipal agenda. As such, there is a need for increased efforts to link global, national, and local processes to build on existing infrastructures at different scales, such as by developing translocal knowledge-policy interfaces. This study not only contributes to progress in the field of food. It also offers insights to enhance science-policy-society relations more broadly, illustrating the need to acknowledge the effectiveness of knowledge-policy interfaces as a function of the broader actings of contested place-based and governance dynamics., This research is part of the project "FOODTRANSITIONS, Ecological Transitions to Sustainable Food Security: Creating Sustainable and Just
Cities", code TED2021-129660A-I00, funded by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union "NextGenerationEU"/PRTR

Este artículo está sujeto a una licencia CC BY 4.0., Despite the extensive literature on <Local Agro-food Systems (LAFS), which involves research on local food identity and organisational proximity, the environmental sustainability of these systems has rarely been addressed. This paper develops a new concept called Local Agroecological Food Systems (LAEFS), which focuses the research not only on local food identity, but also on agroecological principles. We aim to conduct a reflexive review of the literature on the conceptual factors attempting to describe the particular characteristics of LAEFS (distinguishing these from LAFS). We explore five axes of analysis: (a) to establish a compromise at the local level between agro-food sectoral specialisation on the one hand and greater cultivated biodiversity and a more diversified economic structure on the other; (b) to geographically and commercially shorten food channels to the fullest extent; (c) to construct new institutional formulae in the fields of logistics, distribution and public procurement for the scaling up of sustainable food; (d) to develop a participatory, bottom-up, multi-stakeholder and multi-level territorial governance; and (e) to reduce the metabolic profile of food systems by reorganising rural-urban linkages. One of the principal objectives of LAEFS should involve redesigning agricultural and food systems at a scale greater than that of the farm (territory or landscape). This requires both a major public policy push and sustainable territorial governance that incorporate an approach based on territory, food systems and agroecology., This publication is framed within the research grant “Sustainable food networks as chains
of values for agroecological and food transition. Implications for territorial public policies” (PID2020-
112980GB-C21 and PID2020-112980GB-C22; 2021-2025), funded by the Spanish Scientific, Technical
and Innovation Research Plan: MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; and by the project “FOODTRANSITIONS” (TED2021-129660A-I00), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the
European Union funds from “Next Generation EU”/PRTR., Peer reviewed

[EN] This dataset compiles the results of a literature review and analysis that enabled the development of an indicator framework for the characterization of urban systems from a socio-ecological and urban perspective. It is part of the project FOODTRANSITIONS - Transitions towards Global Sustainability and Food Security: Assembling Sustainable and Just Cities TED2021-129660A-I00, funded by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y and the European Union under “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. It contains 38 documents analyzed, identified through Boolean searches on Scopus and grey literature complemented by the professional experience of the authors. The selected indicators were organised and prioritised based on their frequency and relevance, allowing their subsequent validation through a Delphi process. The files include the list of reviewed documents, the analysis results in Atlas.ti, and the first iteration of the indicator framework., [ES] Este conjunto de datos recopila los resultados de una revisión bibliográfica y análisis que permitieron desarrollar un marco de indicadores para la caracterización de sistemas urbanos desde una perspectiva socio-ecológica y urbana. Es parte del proyecto de investigación "FOODTRANSITIONS - Transiciones hacia la Sostenibilidad y Seguridad alimentarias Globales: Ensamblando ciudades sostenibles y justas" con código TED2021-129660A-I00, financiado por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación con número de referencia MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea bajo el programa “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. Contiene 38 documentos analizados, identificados a través de búsquedas Booleanas en Scopus y literatura gris complementada con la experiencia profesional de lxs autorxs. Los indicadores seleccionados fueron organizados y priorizados en base a su frecuencia y relevancia, permitiendo su validación posterior mediante un proceso Delphi. Los archivos incluyen la lista de documentos revisados, los resultados del análisis en Atlas.ti y la primera iteración del marco de indicadores., "NextGenerationEU"/PRTR, Peer reviewed

En los últimos años se han dedicado numerosos esfuerzos
a la creación de políticas alimentarias urbanas
participativas y a la implementación de instrumentos
de gobernanza multiactor asociados. Sin embargo, su
efectividad está en duda. Este informe presenta los
resultados de un análisis de redes en los municipios de
Córdoba y Valladolid, aportando evidencias sobre los
factores que influyen en la resiliencia de las colaboraciones
intersectoriales y capital social generados a raíz de
estos mecanismos., El proyecto “FOODTRANSITIONS, Transiciones Ecológicas
hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria Sostenible: Creando ciudades
sostenibles y justas”, de código TED2021-129660A-I00, ha sido
financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la
Unión Europea “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR, Peer reviewed

Agroecology, agency, and bottom-up governance are deemed essential for sustainable food security, yet alternative food initiatives face difficulties accessing decision-making spaces related to public policy and resources. During the pandemic, grassroots movements emerged in Spanish cities to tackle food insecurity through mutual aid, drawing inspiration from agroecological principles. How these initiatives engage with governmental actors and policies remains unexplored. The article uses semi-structured interviews and participant observations to examine two cases of Agroecology-oriented Food Redistribution Initiatives (AFRIs) in Seville and the Barcelona metropolitan areas. It aims to address three main research questions: 1) What kinds of actors and relations characterise the considered food initiatives? 2) How is sustainable food security understood and performed? 3) How do the initiatives relate with governmental actors and what problems emerge in this interaction? AFRIs emerge as assemblages uniting diverse social actors with a shared focus on food security, understanding it as the right to access sustainable, healthy food, intertwined with other basic needs and related social struggles. Sustainable practices are accompanied by the maintenance of conventional elements in the initiatives, which results in hybrid food networks. Relationships with local government institutions vary between the cases, revealing challenges and ambivalences regarding their role in supporting the provision of fresh and sustainable produce. While the study’s findings indicate that scaling up agroecology does not necessarily result in conventionalization and co-optation, such efforts also come with trade-offs. Despite collaborative endeavors, initiatives like the Barcelona AFRI may find themselves in a marginal role and fall short of fundamentally transforming the prevailing food aid model on a broader scale., Concerning funding, we acknowledge that this work contributes to ICTA-UAB “María de Maeztu” Programme for Units of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CEX2019–000940–M]. FF also acknowledges the financial support provided by the ‘Plan Estatal de I + D + I’ of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PRE2019–087557]. DLG acknowledges the financial support provided by [MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033] and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR funds, along the project [TED2021–129660A–I00]. European Commission Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Peer reviewed

Participatory processes of agroecological transitions at territorial scales are becoming a widespread practice. However, systematic research based on empirical processes remains scarce. In this paper, we systematize the experiences of five cases of co-design for agroecological transitions in Spain, in different territorial contexts and scales, applying the framework of Local Agroecological Dynamization. The systematization has involved professional facilitators of each project and is based on the primary and secondary data they provided. The systematization describes a sequence of milestones to walk through to implement transformative, participatory processes of transitions and suggests some principles for the design of such processes. The paper highlights two elements that define the transformative character of the cases: the activation of social creativity based on the material and relational features of the territory, and the strengthening of local socio-economic actors in the framework of a plural social subject to promote the transition. More empirical, action-oriented research is needed, in different territorial contexts and long-term processes, to deepen the understanding of such issues., This work was supported by the Third Sector Grants from the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, call 2024; and by Grant Number [TED2021-129660A-I00], funded by [MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033] and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR., Peer reviewed

The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework has been widely employed to analyze transitions in agri-food systems. However, its analytical capacity remains limited in addressing critical dimensions such as power asymmetries, territorial dynamics, and diverse forms of agency. To address these gaps, this paper integrates MLP with relational and evolutionary perspectives from social movements theory to examine 23 years of agri-food policy co-creation in València, Spain. We aim to understand (1) how do power relations influence the institutional anchoring of bottom-up policy innovations; (2) what mechanisms can grassroots movements leverage to facilitate such anchoring; and (3) what relational dynamics arise in this context. Our findings highlight how grassroots actors mobilize multiple forms of agency and operate across non-linear temporalities to advance anchoring for policy change, assuming diverse roles as intermediary actors. This relational perspective offers new insights into the strategic practices that underpin long-term sustainability transitions., The paper is part of the project “FOODTRANSITIONS, Ecological Transitions to Sustainable Food Security: Creating Sustainable and Just Cities”, code TED2021-129660A-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. Soledad Cuevas receives funding from the Spanish ministry of Science and innovation as part of the Ramon y Cajal programme: grant code RYC2021-034011-I, Peer reviewed