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The Municipality of Dakar implemented a project of micro-gardening on tables made out of mainly recycled materials. The project aims at addressing food insecurity in disadvantaged areas of the city. Requiring inexpensive technology and little physical effort, creating micro gardens is an activity that everyone can take part in -...

The City of Bruges is providing guidance to two of its major hospitals to support them in their efforts to reduce food waste. This collaboration resulted from the city food guidelines drew up by local stakeholders through a bottom-up process.

Since 2005, the City of Medellin has a public policy for food and nutrition (Food and Nutrition Security Plan), which includes a variety of actions such as providing food to the most vulnerable groups (Medellin Solidaria). This includes communitarian restaurants for the elderly; the promotion of family and community gardens;...

The Municipality of Milan developed a large range of actions to address food waste. These include: 1) a discount on the waste tax in favor of food businesses that donate their food losses to charities, 2) affiliation of school canteens to food banks to distribute surplus, 3) distribution of doggy...

Since 2003, the City of Vancouver has been working to support a just and sustainable food system based on residents’ initiatives and grassroots community development. Ten years later, the City Council adopted the Vancouver Food Strategy, an official plan that integrates a full spectrum of urban food system issues within...