Exploring the Urban Food Actions Database
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Governance and planning, Food production and ecosystem management - Articles
Much more than rural villages, urban metabolism depends on its surrounding region for key resources, such as food and water. This dependence puts locked-down cities across the globe under risk. Strengthening ‘rural-urban linkages’ becomes a stake aiming to make urban food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses.
(Global coverage)
2020 - Pay Drechsel
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Policy Briefs
Based on interviews, statements by various organisations and PLAAS own experience, here are the already-evident impacts of the lockdown on poor people’s access to food, and on the informal food economy in South Africa – from small farmers to street vendors and spaza shops – that is so important in...
South Africa (Africa)
2020 - Coll.
Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Articles
This article discusses threats and opportunities the Covid-19 addresses to our food system. A table to be downloaded lists, for low-income context as well as for high-income context, how to mitigate impacts or adapt from food production to food consumption, including creating an enabling policy environment.
(Global coverage)
2020 - Lawrence Haddad, Jess Fanzo, Steve Godfrey, Corinna Hawkes, Saul Morris and Lynnette Neufeld
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Local Policies
New York City developed plans to keep the city fed during the COVID-19 crisis. Two phases of plans are included:
meet immediate needs (meeting the food needs of the most vulnerable people and supporting the existing supply chain);
provide medium and long-term response and build food system resilience (thinking in long-term; developing...
United States of America (North America)
2020 - Coll.
Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Directories
IFPRI is curating a special series of blogposts analyzing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutrition security, poverty, and development. Links to publications featuring IFPRI analysis on COVID-19, including on specific regional and country impacts; virtual IFPRI events on COVID-19; and pandemic-related podcast episodes....
(Global coverage)
2020 - Coll.