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Urban agriculture is fashionable in developed countries and its boasts a rather positive image of community development. But how do these promises hold? In order to answer the question, researchers from Portland State University and the University of Michigan carried out a review of existing evidence in the United States...

This City Region Food System (CRFS) toolkit provides guidance on how to assess and build sustainable city region food systems. It includes support material on how to: define and map your city region; collect data on your city region food system; gather and analyse information on different CRFS components and...

ONLY IN SPANISH The Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ), the capital of Ecuador, seeks greater food sovereignty and sustainability of its territories. In the years 2016-2017, Quito implemented a diagnosis of its food system in the context of the program 'Understanding the city-regional food system: Planning for a more resilient and...

This Catalogue highlights the best practices identified in the 6 metropolises associated with MADRE, in terms of farmers’ innovation, social innovation, consumer innovation, academic research, territorial innovation and transnational innovation. It aims at: - Mapping the key stakeholders of urban and peri-urban agriculture and connecting them at the Mediterranean level...

The future of food systems is closely bound to cities and urban processes. As these relationships are progressively recognised and unpacked cities are becoming the new front lines in the struggle for more just and sustainable food systems. One of the primary ways that cities shape food and agricultural systems...