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Table 1.

Research tools and analysis exercises carried out for research development

Stage	Objectives	Strategies and tools
1st	To identify the arguments addressed in the scientific literature on food-related issues on university campuses, emphasizing publications that address food sustainability	Literature review
2nd	To make a first approach to the food practices and food sustainability issues on UNAM campus	Visits at UNAM's central campus and 5 external campuses
		23 semistructured interviews with employees of food vending businesses on the campuses with different profiles
		2 workshops with students
3th	To identify the relevance given to food in universities' sustainability plans and the approaches of the strategies proposed in this area	Content analysis of the sustainability programmes (including programmatic documents and websites) of the 100 best-ranked universities worldwide by the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking (2020)
4th	To characterize a sample of production units linked to sustainable food initiatives in the city and to document the perspectives of those responsible for the	Field visits and semistructured interviews were conducted with 60 smallholder farmers from the peri-urban agricultural area of Mexico City
	To identify the food sustainability criteria from the perspective of academic specialists	4 online workshops conducted with a multidisciplinary group of experts in biology, ecology, anthropology, sociology, economics, landscape architecture and industrial design
	To know the perspectives of the university community regarding the problems and shortcomings of food systems and their correlation to sustainability	6 virtual discussion meetings with consumers of the UNAM community and a survey with consumers belonging to the UNAM university community
		An online survey (with 100 participants from the university community)
	To document the perspectives of AFN members and learn about the challenges they face	45 online discussion meetings with members of 23 Alternative Food Networks (AFNs)

Stage	Objectives	Strategies and tools
1st	To identify the arguments addressed in the scientific literature on food-related issues on university campuses, emphasizing publications that address food sustainability	Literature review
2nd	To make a first approach to the food practices and food sustainability issues on UNAM campus	Visits at UNAM's central campus and 5 external campuses
		23 semistructured interviews with employees of food vending businesses on the campuses with different profiles
		2 workshops with students
3th	To identify the relevance given to food in universities' sustainability plans and the approaches of the strategies proposed in this area	Content analysis of the sustainability programmes (including programmatic documents and websites) of the 100 best-ranked universities worldwide by the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking (2020)
4th	To characterize a sample of production units linked to sustainable food initiatives in the city and to document the perspectives of those responsible for the	Field visits and semistructured interviews were conducted with 60 smallholder farmers from the peri-urban agricultural area of Mexico City
	To identify the food sustainability criteria from the perspective of academic specialists	4 online workshops conducted with a multidisciplinary group of experts in biology, ecology, anthropology, sociology, economics, landscape architecture and industrial design
	To know the perspectives of the university community regarding the problems and shortcomings of food systems and their correlation to sustainability	6 virtual discussion meetings with consumers of the UNAM community and a survey with consumers belonging to the UNAM university community
		An online survey (with 100 participants from the university community)
	To document the perspectives of AFN members and learn about the challenges they face	45 online discussion meetings with members of 23 Alternative Food Networks (AFNs)