Urban Food Systems Analysis provides local decision-makers with a holistic understanding of how food systems work: where the food comes from, how it is distributed and utilized, and where, how and for whom the systems create food (in)security and (un)healthy dietary patterns.
In line with this holistic approach, the impacts of the food system on the different dimensions of sustainability — economic, social and environmental — have to be well understood to then take informed action for increasing the resilience, sustainability, healthiness and inclusiveness of urban food systems and for improving food security and ensuring good nutrition.

Through this project, the Rapid Urban Food Systems Assessment Tool (RUFSAT) has been piloted as tool for carrying out urban food systems analysis in small and intermediary cities.
RUFSAT has been developed in response to the need for a structured approach for holistic assessment of the urban food systems assessment. It is a multi-disciplinary tool designed to work closely with a multi-stakeholder group including key public and private stakeholders and civil society participants to ensure ownership of the assessment and hence galvanize implementation support. The tool includes 4 components:

• Consumer analysis
• Sustainable Food Value Chain Analysis
• Policy audit and Urban Food Systems stakeholders’ analysis
• GIS Urban food systems Mapping

The RUFSAT assessment helps to implement strategies to:

1. Portoviejo food systems analysis
   Diagnóstico del sistema alimentario de la ciudad de Portoviejo
   
   
2. Rulindo food systems analysis
   Food Systems Analysis in Rulindo District
   
   
3. Khoungheul food systems analysis
   In-depth analysis of the urban food systems of Bambilor and Koungheul
   
   
4. Bambilor food systems analysis
   In-depth analysis of the urban food systems of Bambilor and Koungheul