Exploring the Urban Food Actions Database
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Governance and planning - Reports & Case Studies
“Food Planning in Garden Cities”, is a contribution to the successful integration of food into urban planning. Urban agriculture and City Region Food Systems (CRFS) are fast gaining the attention of planners and policy makers across the Global South and North, because of persistent food insecurity and rapid urbanisation. City...
United Kingdom (Europe)
2018 - Yves Cabannes, Philip Ross
Food production and ecosystem management - Reports & Case Studies
This film provides useful insights from urban and peri-urban practises experiences and researches in West African cities.
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali (Africa)
2018 - Coll.
Food production and ecosystem management - Reports & Case Studies
This atlas, with examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso, summarises recent interdisciplinary research to address different components of West African urban food systems, including urban and peri-urban agriculture. It draws on the results of several major collaborative research projects and stakeholder consultations conducted in West Africa over the past two...
Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali (Africa)
2018 - Hanna Karg, Pay Drechsel
Governance and planning - Reports & Case Studies
This volume provides 20 city-based experiences with planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition for the urban poor.
Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Peru, Thailand, United States of America (Global coverage)
2018 - Yves Cabannes, Cecilia Marocchino
Governance and planning - Local Policies
The Toronto Food Strategy aims to move the needle towards a food system that positively impacts human and environmental health. This kind of transformative change requires a long-term effort by global, regional and local stakeholders – community, institutional, private sector, government, producers, and academia.
This report describes the complexities of working...
Canada (North America)
2018 - Coll.