Ede is located in the heart of the Netherlands, has around 115,000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom reside in Ede-City. Its large rural area is home to several villages, intensive poultry and pork production, and the renowned De Hoge Veluwe National Park and Kröller-Müller Museum. As a typical representative of Dutch poly-centric urbanisation and part of the national Food Valley region, Ede is actively involved in crafting an urban food policy that aspires to integrate municipal policy areas such as public health, social welfare and sustainable regional development.
By actively mobilizing and engaging relevant stakeholders, the Ede Living Lab will further concentrate on better eco-system service delivery with the help of customized, participatory spatial planning tools, and explore how to facilitate rural business models that build on regional farming style diversification, novel forms of territory-based cooperation and different types of offset mechanisms between public and private goods.
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“Food is the biggest employer on earth. If you believe a good life is one in which you have a good job – good work that is rewarding…
Join us on 2 April to hear Carolyn Steel’s keynote talk, “Sitopia: rethinking our lives through food”.
By Marina Knickel, University of Pisa
…| Publication | Type | Date | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural-Urban Business Model Profile: Valorising Food Heritage and Rural Lifestyles | Factsheet | 3 Aug 2020 |  Valorising food heritage and rural lifestyles.pdf |
| Rural-Urban Business Model Profile: Rural Service Hubs | Factsheet | 3 Aug 2020 | Rural service hubs.pdf |
| Rural-Urban Business Model Profile: Local Food Hubs | Factsheet | 3 Aug 2020 | Local food hubs.pdf |
