City Region Food Systems (CRFS) Assessment and Planning Handbook and Toolkit

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the RUAF Global Partnership on Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems are pleased to invite you to the official launch of the City Region Food Systems (CRFS) Assessment and Planning Handbook and online toolkit.

In a challenging context of multiple risks and uncertainties, the CRFS Programme, co-led by FAO and RUAF, aims to reinforce rural-urban linkages to enhance sustainable and resilient food systems. 

The CRFS Assessment and Planning Handbook, along with its online toolkit, provides comprehensive guidance to project teams, institutions, and food system stakeholders on how to assess risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience capacities to multiple shocks and stresses and action planning to build resilience in city region food systems.  

The webinar will i) launch and advocate take-up of the CRFS Assessment and Planning Handbook and Toolkit; ii) explore current understandings of resilience in the context of city region food systems; and iii) raise awareness on the importance to mainstream resilience in city region food systems strategies, policies and action.   

The main language will be English, with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. 

AGENDA

Time	Item and presenter
14.00 - 14.05	Welcome and introduction by Alison Blay Palmer, Wilfred Laurier University
14.05 - 14.10	Opening remarks: Building resilient cities - the FAO Green Cities Initiative Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO
14.15 - 14.25	The role of city regions in food system sustainability and resilience. Guido Santini, Programme Coordinator, FAO
14.25 - 14.35	Introduction to the CRFS Assessment and Planning Handbook and Toolkit, Jess Halliday, Chief Executive, RUAF
14.35 - 14.45	Five different forms of resilience capacities, and why we need them all, Sylvie Wabbes, Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer, FAO
14.45 - 15.15	Roundtable: How the Handbook and Toolkit can support city stakeholders Thierry Giordano, Researcher, CIRAD  Nomé Randriamanantena, Director of Economic Development, Municipality of Antananarivo, Madagascar Buddhi Marambe, Professor, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Angèle Tasse, Sustainable Food Systems Officer, ICLEI
15.15 - 15.25	Q&A Session
15.25 - 15.30	Closing remarks by Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO

• 24 May 2023, 14:00-15:30 CEST – From emergency response to building resilience: future-proof city region food systems
• 29 June 2023, 14:00-15:30 CEST – Capacity-building for strengthening city region food system resilience