<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10010863" mdate="2019-10-05 00:00:00"> <author>Rayeheh Khatami and Toktam Hanaei and Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar</author> <title>The Role of Food System in Promoting Environmental Planning</title> <pages>638 - 641</pages> <year>2019</year> <volume>13</volume> <number>11</number> <journal>International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010863</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/155</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>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&amp;amp;39; 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 nonwestern 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 nonwestern 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. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 155, 2019</index> </article>