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Sustainable food system assessment : lessons from global practice

Part I. Conceptual foundations

An emerging user-led participatory methodology : mapping impact pathways of urban food system sustainability innovations

Taking care of the land : an interdisciplinary approach to community-based food systems assessment in Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada

Assessing food systems as complex adaptive systems : conceptual views and US applications

Part II. Operationalizing sustainable food system assessment

Data gaps and the politics of data : generating appropriate data for food system assessment in Cape Town, South Africa

Action research as a tool to measure progress in sustainable food cities : enacting reflexive governance principles to develop indicators

Building consensus on sustainable food system assessment : applying a Delphi survey

Part III. Impacts and outcomes of sustainable food system assessment

Building the foundation to grow food policy : the development of a toolkit to measure advocacy capacity

Tools for food system change : city region food system assessment, planning and policy

Assessing responsible food consumption in three Ecuadorian city regions

Integrating upstream determinants and downstream food metrics

The view from here : a critical consideration of sustainable food system assessments