Urban Food Actions Platform

Some dietary and food recommendations are considered more sustainable and protective of human health and the environment.

The challenge lies in putting the recommendations into practice.

Discover ways and means of incorporating more sustainable and nutritious diets. For instance, reorienting school meal programmes and other institutional food services (from hospitals to elderly homes) to provide nutritious and safe food that contribute to healthy diets; developing regulatory and voluntary instruments to promote sustainable diets and address associated with poor diets and obesity involving private and public companies, using marketing, health promotion and communication programmes; developing and labelling policies/schemes; using economic incentives or disincentives.

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Unnoticed, yet happening: food foraging in the city
Who forages and why? A team of researchers across a variety of Baltimore-based organisations carried out an exhaustive survey to identify what, why, and, for the first time, how much people foraged in the city. This study puts this activity on the radar of urban planners and raises questions regarding...
(Global coverage)
2018 - Albane Gaspard
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Food Security in Africa's Secondary Cities: No. 1. Mzuzu, Malawi
This report marks the first stage of AFSUN’s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities. With regard specifically to studies of food security in urban Malawi, the report builds on two previous AFSUN studies. The first was conducted as...
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Governance and planning, Sustainable diets and nutrition, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Methodology and Training Materials
City Region Food System Toolkit
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(Global coverage)
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Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture. best Practice Catalogue.
This Catalogue highlights the best practices identified in the 6 metropolises associated with MADRE, in terms of farmers’ innovation, social innovation, consumer innovation, academic research, territorial innovation and transnational innovation. It aims at: - Mapping the key stakeholders of urban and peri-urban agriculture and connecting them at the Mediterranean level...
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The Urban Agenda: Meeting the food and nutrition security needs of the urban poor
The world is at an unprecedented point in the sustainable development journey. For the first time in history extreme poverty, those living on less than $1.90 per day, has fallen below 10%. However, two years after the global commitments were adopted in New York, and after years of steady decline,...
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2018 - Seidenbusch, E.; Villamarin, F; McMahon, D.; Husain, S.; Islam, S
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