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Levels of obesity in most cities are growing fast, as is the associated healthcare burden. Urban food provisioning – the way people in cities access food – is a significant part of the problem, but urban authorities around the world are starting to take a new approach; one that combines...

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.

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...

Urban and rural communities do not live in isolation from one another. The flow of people, goods, services and transport, for example, does not go in one direction only. In fact, there is a repeated and reciprocal circular movement across the urban-rural continuum that connects these areas and generates a...

ONLY IN FRENCH This action plan is intended to contribute to consolidating the Aix Marseille Provance metropolis in its future as a sustainable metropolis and to place it among the ranks of major European cities in terms of urban agriculture.In its first phase of implementation, it totals 30 flagship actions, including...