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The Indonesia Food Change Lab started in 2015 as a multi-stakeholder platform to address the deadlock between proponents of safety and public order on the one hand, and access to healthy, fresh food and income-generating activities for low-income citizens on the other. Thanks to these efforts, the Indonesia Food Change...

Central to the Change Lab process is citizen agency – the notion that people (both individually and collectively) have the capacity to act independently and to make their own choices. Hence the bottom-up approach, which brings different stakeholders together and provides a forum in which they can discuss and act...

The Zambia Food Change Lab aims to create a collective understanding of Zambia’s current food system and challenges for the future. In the process, it strengthens collaboration among consumers, farmers, entrepreneurs, civil society and government to foster long-term engagement, collective leadership and joint initiatives. Lab participants – from smallholder farmers...

This webpage provides access to various FAO publications on Urban and Peri-Urban Forestry. Some publications are available in French or in Spanish.[Urban Forestry]

Cities can be great hubs for ideas, culture, science, productivity, commerce and social development, offering citizens diverse opportunities for employment, education and lifestyle. The potential of cities is under threat, however, from unprecedented urban growth and an exponential increase in the global urban population. In many cities worldwide, the well-being...