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

Sustainable diets and nutrition, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe, Malawi
Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. In Southern Africa, empirical research has uncovered extensive food insecurity at the household scale in cities with an abundance of food.1 An urban household...
Malawi (Africa)
2017 - Emmanuel Chilanga, Liam Riley, Juliana Ngwira, Chisomo Chalinda and Lameck Masitala
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
The supermarket revolution and food security in Namibia
Rapid urbanization in Africa has been accompanied by a major transformation in national and local food systems. Thomas Reardon and colleagues were the first to argue that this transformation was being driven by a “supermarket revolution” that involved increasingly greater control over food supply and marketing by international and local...
Namibia (Africa)
2017 - Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush and Jeremy Wagner
Governance and planning, Sustainable diets and nutrition, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
The experience of Bio-districts in Italy
In 2009 the Italian Association for Organic Agriculture (AIAB) launched the first bio-district in Italy. A bio-district is a geographical area where farmers, citizens, tourist operators, associations and public authorities enter into an agreement for the sustainable management of local resources, based on organic principles and practices, aiming at the...
Italy (Europe)
2017 - Salvatore Basile
Governance and planning, Sustainable diets and nutrition, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Food Metrics Report 2017
In the pages that follow, you’ll read about the City of New York’s efforts to support a more sustainable, accessible, nutritious and equitable food system for communities throughout New York City. We continue to work to reduce the Meal Gap and food insecurity rate in all boroughs, along with prioritizing...
United States of America (North America)
2017 - The City of New York
Food supply and distribution - Guidelines
Guide for the development of producer markets
ONLY IN SPANISH The objective of this document is to present a guide for the establishment and development of producer markets, taking into account the territorial dynamics, the complexity and diversity of actors and productive structures that may occur within the framework of rural-urban relations, based on good practices and everything...
Mexico (Latin America and the Caribbean)
2017 - FAO
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