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Feeding the global city: urban transformation and urban food supply chain in 21st-century Istanbul

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  • Candan Turkkan

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This article focuses on the effects of urban transformation on the urban food supply chain in 21st century Istanbul. The article begins with a discussion on the particularities of the urban transformation that has shaped the city since the 1980s, emphasizing tendencies that are relevant to food consumption and supply patterns and practices. Next, 6 categories of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFVs), provisioning agents (mixed/foreign-capital supermarkets, domestic-capital supermarkets, bazaars, local suppliers, and urban and semi-urban/peripheral farmers, internet or store-based alternative food networks) are analyzed in terms of their perception of urban transformation and various challenges it poses. The article concludes with an assessment of the changes in the city’s food supply chain in light of provisioning agents’ responses to the urban transformation as a force that either enables them compete more successfully and expand their operations or pushes them to contract or even leave the provisioning sector completely.

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  • Candan Turkkan, 2020. "Feeding the global city: urban transformation and urban food supply chain in 21st-century Istanbul," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 13-37, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjouxx:v:13:y:2020:i:1:p:13-37
    DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2018.1515785
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