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.

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Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Systems of Control for Agroecological Food Production and Commercialisation in Quito, Ecuador
Meeting future demand for food under sustainable production schemes and through reasonable processes has become of vital importance for the future of humanity. The municipality of the metropolitan district of Quito has – since 2002 – addressed this challenge through the implementation of the Agricultura Urbana Participativa project (AGRUPAR, Participative...
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2017 - Alexandra Rodríguez Dueñas
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Urban Agriculture in Cuba: 30 Years of policy and practice
It is estimated that by 2050, 80% of the global population will live in urban areas, a reality that is changing priorities for urban planning and policy. For many years, Cuba has already reflected what that future global reality will be, with close to 80% of its population living in...
Cuba (Latin America and the Caribbean)
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Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Connecting smallholders to markets
Smallholders engage in many interrelated markets, but also face challenges in securing market access and eliciting benefits to support healthy livelihoods. Governments have an essential role to play in addressing their specific constraints and maximizing potential for beneficial access to reliable and remunerative markets. This will support governments’ efforts to...
(Global coverage)
2017 - Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Food supply and distribution - Articles
Going beyond local food
In many cities around the world, the local food movement has been instrumental in putting food on the agenda. However, is local better than global? A European research project called GLAMUR explored further the question. “What was at the beginning a simple question turned out to be not so simple”,...
(Europe)
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Regional Supply Chains and the Food Economy of Malawi
This brief provides an overview of a unique data set that begins to systematically examine the regional supply chain in Lilongwe, Malawi. Sometimes referred to as ‘informal’ or ‘traditional,’ the regional food sector is critical to rural and urban food security and is a common and important source of income...
Malawi (Africa)
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