The JUST GROW framework: conceptualizing how city regions can govern urban agriculture for equity and sustainability

ILS scientists Ann-Kristin Koch, Barbara Schröter and Kathrin Specht, together with other colleagues from the JUST GROW project, have published an article in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The article deals with a new framework for establishing justice-oriented pathways to govern and catalyze the sustainable transformation of city region food systems (CRFS). Therefore, the JUST GROW framework incorporates three interlinked principles of justice into a comprehensive governance process of collective knowing, inclusive deliberation, and intentional action and calls for processes of open and inclusive co-creation with community stakeholders, decision-makers, and researchers. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1653448. Further current selected papers can be found here.