Food Policy Councils and Food Citizenship Events: success criteria

Citizen participation in local food policies can be framed as a field of education for sustainable development, critically needed in an agrifood system in crisis.  With this in mind, the success criteria of these food citizen participation events were elicited through expert interviews and analyzed using grounded theory. The success criteria were further developed by relating the interview results to radical democratic concepts from the alternative food movement, participatory democracy, and democratic governance theory. In particular, the participation of social categories that are disadvantaged in the modern food system emerges as critical to the success of food citizenship events.