Urban Food Actions Platform

Food systems should ensure that enough nutritious food is available for everyone, whether they live in urban or rural areas, and they are poor households. The challenge is to do so while minimizing any harmful impact on the environment. 

This thematic area focuses on efficient and resilient food supply and distribution systems. For instance strengthening the rural-urban food supply chain in order to face and adapt to disruptive events; developing sustainable food transportation and logistics planning in order to reduce carbon emissions by improving alternative fuels or means of transport and thus improve connections with peri-urban and rural nearby areas; strengthening or developing energy efficient municipal public markets including farmers markets, retail and wholesale markets; creating an enabling environment for the informal food system sector and their stakeholders.

Related Resources

Food supply and distribution - Academic Literature
Informal food vendors and their role in the food and nutrition security of low-income workers in Bandung City, Indonesia
Research report on informal food vendors and their role in the food and nutrition security of low-income workers in Bandung City, Indonesia. The role of street vendors and informal food provision in urban food security of the working poor has largely been overlooked. This research, conducted by the International Institute...
Indonesia (Asia and the Pacific)
2019 - Ronnie S Natawidjaja; Hepi Hapsari; Dindin Makhmudin; Irlan A Rum; Hanny Sulistyoningrum; William Vorle
Sustainable diets and nutrition, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Reports & Case Studies
Addressing food-related consumption -based emissions in C40 cities
C40, Arup and the University of Leeds have collaborated on research and analysis to better understand consumption-based emissions in cities, to explore their scale and to consider what cities can do to reduce them.
(Global coverage)
2019 - C40 Cities, Arup & University of Leeds
Governance and planning, Sustainable diets and nutrition, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Frameworks
FAO Framework for the Urban Food Agenda
The FAO Framework for the Urban Food Agenda serves as a corporate strategy to address emerging calls from countries, responding to demands for a multi-sectorial, multi-stakeholder and multi-level approach to food insecurity and malnutrition across the rural-urban continuum. The Framework explains why FAO is in a unique position to influence...
(Global coverage)
2019 - Coll.
Governance and planning, Sustainable diets and nutrition, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
A menu of actions to shape urban food environments for improved nutrition
The menu of actions contains over 70 examples of policies and programmes that city governments have implemented to improve food security and nutrition by making healthy and nutritious food more accessible, desirable, and affordable. The resource helps meet the need for more shared learning and guidance on policies and pro­grammes...
Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Mozambique, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), United Kingdom, United States of America (Global coverage)
2019 - Jess Halliday, Laura Platenkamp, Yota Nicolarea
Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Contribution of food distribution systems to urban food security: case study on the Rabat metropolitan area (Morocco)
ONLY IN FRENCH Food distribution systems (FDS) in developing countries have undergone profound changes in recent years. The objective of this study commissioned by the AFD is to identify priority areas to improve the capacity of FDS to meet the challenges of food and health security for urban populations. The data...
Morocco (Africa)
2019 - Mohammed ADERGHAL, Sylvaine LEMEILLEUR, Bruno ROMAGNY
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