S09 - Session P2 - Indicators and metrics to measure social impacts in city-region-food-systems (CRFS)

Authors: Kathrin Specht *, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Giuseppe Calore, Mara Petruzzelli, Francesca Monticone, Laura Carotti, Pietro Tonini

Analyzing social impacts is required to reach the main goals of a sustainable development of a CRFS. In order to identify the most relevant and suitable indicators and metrics to measure social impacts in CRFS, we conducted a literature review between 2020 and 2021. The objectives of this review were the identification of the state of the art on main social aspects to be addressed when analyzing CRFS. The literature review was based on the PRISMA method (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses). The PRISMA method aims to help authors in improving the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on a specific topic (Moher et al., 2009). The main goal was to identify indicators and metrics for measuring the social impacts of CRFS. Therefore, only those papers that report on an empirical analysis of impacts and that use clear metrics were included into the final analysis, which is currently still ongoing. The data was collected by 19 researchers from the FoodE team including researchers from ILS, UNIBO, UAB, AGROPARISTECH, MAIBINE and SWUAS. Social indicators have been identified along four main impact categories: (1) education, (2) health impacts, (3) community development and (4) economic impacts.