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Today SNV publishes a report that explores the malnutrition situation in the urban environment and explores interventions that can be used to address it. Urbanisation is expected to put an increased pressure on the global food systems. As the world’s cities expand, they are becoming home to an increasing number...

Food is vital to sustain life but food is also much more than just a meal. It connects everything we do as a society, it affects the environment, it drives our economy, affects our health and it is a central part of our cultural life. How our food system works...

This report presents the methodology and results of a study investigating the consumption based greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 79 cities, carried out by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) in partnership with the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and Arup. Consumption-based...

RUAF Foundation and FAO partnered to support a City Region Food System Assessment and Planning process in seven cities selected from across the globe– Lusaka and Kitwe (Zambia), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Medellín (Colombia), Quito (Ecuador), Toronto (Canada) and Utrecht (The Netherlands). A synthesis report on Utrecht, The Netherlands, as presented...

Why is it so difficult for farmers operating just outside the city of Chicago to sell to people living there? This was the question that led a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (United States) to explore urban food logistics. Their work, published in a report entitled Regional...