SHARECITY: the practice and sustainability potential of urban food sharing

Published on December 1, 2016

There is growing clarity regarding the unsustainability of cities, not least with respect to food consumption and sharing, including food sharing, is increasingly being identified as one transformative mechanism for sustainable cities: reducing consumption; conserving resources, preventing waste and providing new forms of socio-economic relations. SHARECITY aims to establish the significance and potential of food sharing economies to transform cities onto more sustainable pathways.

SHARECITY will establish the significance and potential of food sharing economies to transform cities onto more sustainable pathways the project by: - Developing deeper theoretical understanding of contemporary food sharing - Generating comparative international empirical data about food sharing activities within cities - Assessing the impact of food sharing activities - Exploring how food sharing in cities might evolve in the future

The SHARECITY100 Database - an open access, interactive platform provides details of more than 4000 food sharing enterprises across 100 cities: Full details and interactive platform available from: - http://sharecity.ie/research/sharecity100-database/ Current research involves indepth food sharing ethnographies within a range of citeis across the globe. The research has generated significant interest amongst food sharers around the globe, including the co-development of the SHARECITY100 database through calls for input through the shareable network. Dissemination of results to date includes: More than 30 blogs: http://sharecity.ie/blog/page/3/ Presentations: http://sharecity.ie/outputs/presentations/ Publications: http://sharecity.ie/outputs/publications/ Contact Anna Davies PI of SHARECITY at: daviesa@tcd.ie