Food Planning and Foodscape. Matera as a Laboratory of Urban Food Policy

The city of Matera, “Capitale del mondo contadino” as Carlo Levi stated while describing the peasant nature of the city, and urban place of the Agrarian Reform’s project in XX century, tries to give a contribution to the debate on food culture and on city as a laboratory of ideas, but also for testing innovative agro-urban models of development. The proposed research, thanks to the project SMART Basilicata Culture and Tourism research, aims at supporting the setting-up of a Card of Food for Matera, to increase the importance of food system and its dynamics, to support the public administration on building a food policy and to improve the quality of urban and rural spaces. In this process the involvement of citizens and other actors and stakeholders of the system is relevant. The aim of the research is also to give value at the traditional knowledge as an education against food waste improving the local sobriety.