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ONLY IN FRENCH-This VIDEO presents an overview of the city of Porto-Novo (Benin) in 2015, a city with an exceptional tangible and intangible heritage, hosting natural areas of great quality. It shows the challenges of urban planning, and highlights the city's sustainable development strategy, with the "Porto Novo, Green city" project.

Extreme climate events already expose food systems to shocks and stresses, thus affecting food production and access to food of different groups. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the complexity of factors and processes that constrain or enable people's ability to build resilient livelihoods. This includes...

Urban markets contribute to massive opportunities and benefits. They can play an important role for the sustainable development and revitalization of a city by promoting: job creation and employment, tourism (related to gastronomy traditions), local commerce, healthy life styles, revitalization of public space, social and cultural “services", and an environmental...

ONLY IN FRENCH This video asks us about the new challenges of sustainable food and the role of each actor in this system (farmers, elected officials, economic actors, associations, consumers, distributors, etc.). A real tool for debate, it questions our ability to change our attitudes (dialogue, listening, pleasure, etc.). Meeting with...

This database is a centralized resource for planners, policy makers, community advocates, local organizations and the policy curious to search for policy precedents and to better understand how local government policy in British Columbia is addressing local food systems. Search by a range of characteristics to find food system policies that have...