TY - JFULL AU - Rayeheh Khatami and Toktam Hanaei and Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar PY - 2019/12/ TI - The Role of Food System in Promoting Environmental Planning T2 - International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering SP - 637 EP - 641 VL - 13 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010863 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 155, 2019 N2 - Today, many local and national governments are developing urban agriculture as an effective tool in responding to challenges such as food security, poverty and environmental problems. In fact, urban agriculture plays an important role in food system, which can provide citizens' income and become one of the components of economic, social and environmental systems. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the urban agriculture and urban food systems in order to understand the impact of urban foods production on environmental planning in non-western city region context. To achieve such objective, we carry out a case study in Mashhad city of Iran by using qualitative approaches. A survey on documentary studies and planning tools integrate with face to face interview with experts which explain the role of food system in environmental planning process. The paper extends the use of food in the environmental planning, specifically to examine this role to create agricultural garden as a mean to improve agricultural system in non-western country. The paper is concluded with a set of recommendations for researchers and policymakers who seek to create spaces in order to implement urban agriculture in cities for food justice. ER -