Bioregional food systems and the structures of long-term territorialization process

Peri-urban farmland areas have historically played a key role in providing food for the cities while keeping and developing with those an overall and co-evolutionary relationship both in cultural and environmental terms. A mutual reproductive role weakened in modernity especially because of the advent of the global capitalist market, reducing food mainly to a commodity and jeopardising the historical relationship between city and countryside. The chapter, drawing on the paradigm of the urban bioregion, tries to briefly account, referring to three case studies, how the inherited relationships between the country and the city in Central America and Europe are being revived. It analyzes the preexistence of territorialization processes in peri-urban agricultural areas and their connection with bioregional agrifood systems, while also highlighting current problems and some experiences that could act as a guide for the revival of agro ecologies with the objective of adapting urban bioregions to the climate emergency and the scarcity of energy and materials.