Cecília Delgado

Cecília Delgado
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  • Researcher at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

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Introduction
Cecília Delgado is a Researcher Fellow with a fixed-term contract at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of NOVA FCSH (Portugal). Currently, her research is focused on public policies and governance on the articulation within urban and peri-urban agriculture, urban food systems, and urban planning. Her work in the last years has resulted in almost 70 research outputs covering scientific papers, books, book chapters, working papers and policy briefs.
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Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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  • Researcher

Publications

Publications (73)
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O Manual de Perguntas Frequentes para Arquitetos, Urbanistas, Técnicos e Decisores sobre Como Integrar a Alimentação e o Clima no Planeamento Territorial” é resultado de workshops realizados pela Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis Associação e envolveu mais de 200 estudantes e docentes de arquitetura e urbanismo, realizados entre outubro e dezembro de...
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This article intends to strengthen access to land for agricultural production initiatives in Portugal by answering the following question: In the international context of sustainable development agendas and plans, what are the key themes for advocating an access to land public policy? We call for more visibility to the topic based on the internatio...
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In Portugal, local answers to climate change and food are basically twofold: the approval of a Climate Adaptive Strategy or Plan, which are largely being formulated by Portuguese municipalities and the voluntary signature of the Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration. As both folds are not binding their impact is limited. However, a recent Portuguese...
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This book comprises six chapters prepared by the COST Action Circular City (https://circular-city.eu/). The Action aims to establish a network of researchers and stakeholders testing the hypothesis that: ‘A circular flow system that implements nature-based solutions (NBS) for managing nutrients and resources within the urban biosphere will lead to...
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Um breve retrato das iniciativas alimentares em Portugal, baseado nas dimensões do Pacto de Milão, revela a preponderância da dimensão “dieta sustentável e nutrição” e uma ausência quase completa da dimensão "governança alimentar".
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This paper discusses to what extent land is considered in food-related policies from a systemic perspective. Based on existing literature and international agendas priorities, we argue that access to and preservation of land for food along the food chain do play a major role in sustainable food systems. To further explore this argument, we address...
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Este artigo pretende ser um primeiro contributo para refletir sobre a ausência de uma perspetiva multidimensional nos sistemas alimentares em Portugal, suportada na análise de um conjunto de grelhas e declarações propostas pela FAO, o Pacto de Milão, organizações não governamentais e a academia. Como amostragem recorreu-se a 96 iniciativas, listada...
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Portuguese organic food consumption to meet national individual and institutional demand is swiftly increasing. This demand is a missed opportunity due to lack of land access for farmers. We claim that land availability needs to be taken into consideration centrally in the formulation of local and national food policies. In particular, we suggest:...
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Individual and institutional demand for organic food in Portugal is swiftly increasing. This demand is an opportunity currently missed due to farmers' lack to access to land. At this point, we claim that land availability needs to be centrally taken into consideration in the formulation of local and national food policies. In particular, we suggest...
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Multiple policy entries for a sustainable food system in Portugal: overview, challenges and solutions I Delgado, C. (guest editor)
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Urban agriculture (UA) plays a key role in the circular metabolism of cities, as it can use water resources, nutrients, and other materials recovered from streams that currently leave the city as solid waste or as wastewater to produce new food and biomass. The ecosystem services of urban green spaces and infrastructures and the productivity of spe...
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Organic food demand in Portugal swiftly increases due to local governments willingness to include organic and locally produced food in school meals. We argue that local production is limited because there are no multi-sector or multi-actors approaches regarding land access, a necessity to secure local organic food supply. Based on a stakeholder's m...
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National organic food is scarce, and demand from consumers and institutions is growing, namely from Local Authorities seeking to improve the quality of meals provided to their children in canteens. In addition, land to grow locally is hard to find. We argue that access to land should be a central topic for food policy formulation at local and natio...
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This paper addresses two interconnected questions: the first one being why urban agriculture and food related initiatives take usually years to materialize in Portugal and the second explores why resilient ones do not scale up and shift from practices to local food policies. We argue that existing initiatives are viewed as single events and therefo...
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ENG: Crises, like the current pandemic Covid-19, are opportunities to rethink food systems, yet the lack of land access in particularly on urban perimeters is an obstacle. We argue that Urban Planning should consider Urban Agriculture as a tool for strengthening the urban and peri-urban fabric through permanent or temporary use of the vacant land....
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Este artigo é o primeiro contributo para mapear os conteúdos partilhados pelos membros da plataforma nacional Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis da qual fazem parte 270 membros (julho 2019). Defendemos que a complexidade dos sistemas alimentares exige estruturas de aprendizagem coletiva baseadas em comunidades de prática como a plataforma Alimentar Cid...
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O e-book Alimentar Boas Práticas: da Produção ao Consumo Sustentável 2020 mapeia 46 iniciativas que oferecem uma visão não exaustiva das ações, projetos e programas em curso em Portugal. A compilação foi o resultado de contributos de promotores privados, da administração central e local, do terceiro setor e da academia, o que se reflete na riqueza...
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PRÁTICAS INOVADORAS EM PORTUGAL AO LONGO DA CADEIA ALIMENTAR: DA PRODUÇÃO AO CONSUMO SUSTENTÁVEL O e-book Alimentar Boas Práticas: da Produção ao Consumo Sustentável 2020 compila 46 iniciativas que oferecem uma visão não exaustiva das ações, projetos e programas em curso em Portugal. A compilação foi o resultado de contributos de promotores privad...
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The Portuguese national platform - Feeding Sustainable Cities started in June 2018 as a civil society initiative aiming at reshaping the Portuguese food systems. It started with roughly 40 members and only one year later 260 people were engaged, demonstrating a steady increase. This paper explores the following research questions: (1) To what exten...
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A Estratégia Integrada para a Promoção da Alimentação Saudável (2017), a Estratégia Nacional para a Agricultura Biológica e Plano de Ação (2017) e o Estatuto da Pequena Agricultura Familiar (2018) demonstram que a Alimentação e a Agricultura fazem hoje parte da Agenda Política Nacional. Falta, argumentamos, uma abordagem multissetorial que integre...
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Compreender se existe em Portugal uma conjuntura propicia à formulação, implementação e institucionalização de políticas alimentares e de que modo as práticas de Agricultura Urbana existentes podem potenciar esse processo são as questões examinadas neste artigo. A análise é suportada num inquérito a 16 autarquias locais que identificou áreas de con...
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Session - Trends and Innovations in Urban Food Governance - Lessons and experiences from Europe
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Research and practice during the last 20 years has shown that urban agriculture can contribute to minimising the effects of climate change by, at the same time, improving the life quality in urban areas. In order to do so most effectively, land use and spatial planning are crucial so as to obtain and maintain a supportive green infrastructure and t...
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An increasing number of cities are developing their food policy council, yet there are still many countries where this is not happening, or only just beginning. This article describes the development of an active national exchange platform in Portugal.
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Two key questions addressed in the current study are why urban agriculture and food initiatives in Portugal take so long to materialize, and why existing initiatives don’t scale up from projects to policies. We argue that existing initiatives are mainly carried out as linear processes and have quite limited long-term political commitment. We carrie...
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Two key questions addressed in the current study are why urban agriculture and food initiatives in Portugal take so long to materialize, and why existing initiatives don’t scale up from projects to policies. We argue that existing initia­tives are mainly carried out as linear processes and have quite limited long-term political commitment. We carri...
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Apresentação da Plataforma Nacional Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis
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Power point Presentation - National Platform Feeding Sustainable Cities May 2019
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Apresentação no âmbito da Escola de Verão - European Green Foundation, Lisboa Portugal
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Apresentação e Caracterização da Plataforma Nacional Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis em Novembro 2018
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Resultados do Workshop sobre Agricultura Urbana realizado em Cascais, Fevereiro 2019
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Belo Horizonte is a planned Brazilian city, built in the late nineteenth century, whose city plan differentiated urban and peri-urban zones as well as a productive rural belt. The city has expanded swiftly from 25 000 inhabitants in 1897 to close to 2.5 million today (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística [IBGE] 2016), eating up arable la...
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Artigo de opinião publicado na revista da REDE RURAL NACIONAL (DGADR), subordinada ao tema - Caminhos para uma alimentação mais sustentável.
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This paper presents a conceptual exploration of Urban Agriculture in Portugal. We argue that Portuguese Urban Agriculture primarily focuses on food production for self-consumption and that its links with the other components of urban as a system are quite limited. To substantiate our argument several Urban Agriculture international definitions are...
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Apresentação na tertúlia dinamizada pela ONG - campo Aberto Porto, 11 de Maio de 2018
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The city of Paris has been extremely active on programmes and projects concerning biodiversity, greening, urban agriculture [UA] and food initiatives. Our leading question in this paper is: which are the critical points that explain such a lively process? In order to address this, 22 actors and initiatives where either consulted or visited and a se...
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Apresentação dos resultados do inquérito aos municípios Portugueses no âmbito do evento - AGRICULTURA URBANA COMO COMPONENTE DE SISTEMAS ALIMENTARES RESILIENTES - que reuniu os peritos da Fundação RUAF em Lisboa e alguns municípios Portugueses.
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A significant sample of twenty-nine Portuguese urban agriculture (UA) initiatives is analysed in this article. It argues that emerging initiatives are relevant for shifting from a post-crisis approach to one that is more developmental. This multi-level analysis finds that UA in Portugal: embraces allotment gardens, urban farms and short food chains...
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Apresentam-se os resultados preliminares do estado da arte da Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana [AUP] em Portugal1. Argumenta-se que a AUP em Portugal está focalizada principalmente no componente produção e que a sua ligação às restantes componentes do sistema urbano são ainda limitadas. Para fundamentar o argumento apresentam-se e analisam-se várias...
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Argumenta-se que a agricultura urbana é uma prática onde a mulher é protagonista. Considerou-se um conjunto de hortas em Viena e Lisboa e 29 experiências relevantes em Portugal para testar o argumento. Os resultados demonstram uma evolução favorável à maior presença das mulheres nas hortas; uma hegemonia das mulheres no conjunto de práticas analisa...
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It is argued that urban agriculture is a practice where women are protagonists. In order to verify the argument a set of gardens in Vienna and Lisbon plus 29 relevant experiences in Portugal were used. The results show that woman presence in the gardens has space to increase; women are in hegemony as process managers; women are leading social entre...
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As tendências produtivas dos espaços públicos: Multi-funções, Multi-atores e Multi-territórios. Apresentação de exemplos internacionais: Singapura (Singapura) e.g. verde hi-tech e estético; Malmo (Suécia) e.g. verde como politica de sustentabilidade e parte de um sistema de mitigação das alterações climáticas; Ghent (Bélgica) e.g. verde como produç...
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Este texto explora algumas das articulações possíveis entre três campos ainda inexplorados - Agricultura Urbana, Alterações Climáticas, e Cidades - que merecem uma maior compreensão numa perspetiva de desenvolvimento sustentável do futuro do nosso planeta.
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A força das comunidades locais de atores envolvidos Editorial-O envolvimento das comunidades no planejamento urbano e na formulação de políticas alimentares urbano-regionais Desafios para integrar a alimentação no planejamento urbano: lições da realidade Atores locais construindo estratégias alimentares urbanas na África Ocidental e América do Sul...
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Editorial - Community Involvement in Urban Planning and Policy Development to Strengthen City Region Food Systems
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O presente relatório sintetiza os resultados decorrentes da produção coletiva de conhecimento em torno da temática da Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana que decorreu em Pinhal Novo no dia 1 de Outubro de 2016. O fórum foi concebido no âmbito do Programa Alimenta Ação dinamizado pelo Projeto 270.
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Apresentação do projecto à Comissão Social da Junta de Freguesia de Alvalade, Lisboa
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Key words: Urban Agriculture and peri-urban agriculture; urban planning; territorial cohesion; social cohesion; urban food system; Portugal
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Belo Horizonte Presentation - Exchange Seminar NY/FAO
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Apresentação no Congresso Maria Lamas
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http://www.habitants.org/news/library/another_city_is_possible_-_alternatives_to_the_city_as_a_commodity
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Este estudo analisou planos de ordenamento de território brasileiros e portugueses, com o objetivo de compreender a prática da participação popular na construção da democracia participativa. A metodologia aplicada ao trabalho consistiu na análise empírica da participação popular do Plano-Diretor Municipal (2007); e o de Regularização Fundiária (201...
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Presentation on the Local Urban Food Policies in the global food sovereignty debate (Key Speaker)
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Aula Inaugural - Departamento de Planeamento Regional e Urbano - Universidade de Palmas
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AHRC European Workshop on urban agriculture & policy, Presentation
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The benefits of public participation and community involvement are broadly recognised and encouraged by governmental institutions and civil society. However, its effectiveness and impact on Portuguese urban planning are relatively scarce. It was used as study case the urban project - Polis Programme, in Vila Nova de Gaia - Portugal, and both qualit...
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Using semi-structured interviews we cross-examined our target sample (politicians, citizens and technicians from an urban rehabilitation in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal). Questions focused on the importance of public participation and if people got involved in planning issues. Secondly we asked about the importance of some indicators of urban qualit...
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The economic crisis has reinforced the need to cross information and seek new alternatives. How urban planners are going to deal with it is crucial. It is urgent to reactivate the profession's social function and recognize that the right to the city for all is universal. Urban planning is the result of political and technical decisions. Cities are...

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