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  • Event: Empowering Cities And Local Governments To Improve Food Systems Globally

    Event: Empowering Cities And Local Governments To Improve Food Systems Globally

    Date: Monday June 28, 2021 Time: 14.30 to 17.30 (CEST) Location: Virtual event. Register: it will be streamed online on the Urban Food Agenda Homepage and on the FAO Webcast page. A Registration Link (optional) is open if you want to access the Zoom Room. (CLOSED) The recording is available here.    Convened by FAO,…

  • City Region Food Systems at the MUFPP Africa Forum 2021

    City Region Food Systems at the MUFPP Africa Forum 2021

    On 17th February 2021 RUAF will host an online panel session on City Region Food Systems at the 4th annual Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) Africa Forum, together with FAO and CGIAR’s Water Land and Ecosystems programme. This year’s MUFPP Africa Forum will be held between 15 and 19 February 2021 in Ouagadougou, Burkina…

  • Role of City Region Food Systems in pandemic and climate shock recovery highlighted at GFFA

    Role of City Region Food Systems in pandemic and climate shock recovery highlighted at GFFA

    City region food systems help assure access to food when supply chains are impacted by climate shocks and stresses and pandemic infection control measures, and play a vital role in building back better, according to an expert panel at the 13th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) held on 18-22 January 2021. GFFA is…

  • Upcoming IWMI CAPVAL Project trainings

    Upcoming IWMI CAPVAL Project trainings

    Supporting public and private sectors driven commercialization of reuse and recycling of liquid and solid wastes in selected cities in Ghana. RUAF Partner, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) – under the Creating and capturing value: Supporting enterprises for urban liquid and solid wastes recycling for food, energy and clean environment (CapVal) project – and…

  • World Food Day 2020: We need to build a resilient post-Covid food system. Together.

    World Food Day 2020: We need to build a resilient post-Covid food system. Together.

    Authors: Jess Halliday and Barbara Emanuel The theme of World Food Day 2020 – Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together – was probably settled well before Covid-19 arrived on Planet Earth, killing more than a million people, devastating economies, and laying bare the fragilities and inequalities of the food system. But the importance of working together is…

  • COVID-19: a growing opportunity for community gardening in London

    COVID-19: a growing opportunity for community gardening in London

    Authors: Victoria Schoen (University of Kent) and Chris Blythe (Social Farms & Gardens) As the UK went into COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, many community gardens in London stepped up as emergency food providers, despite unclear government advice on whether they could continue operating. Highlighting the flexible, community-centred approach of such gardens, as well as…

  • Handpicked podcast: Episode 6

    Handpicked podcast: Episode 6

    The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems just released the last episode of the first season in their podcast, Handpicked: Stories from the Field.  Episode 6: “We are all the shepherds of the data”: food, technology and data sovereignty Technology is changing all aspects of the food system, including how smaller-scale farmers and food producers…

  • Addressing Gender Inequalities in Quito’s Food System

    Addressing Gender Inequalities in Quito’s Food System

    Author: Alexandra Rodríguez, Economic Development Agency, CONQUITO, Head of AGRUPAR Gender justice and women’s empowerment are central to Quito’s participatory urban agriculture project, AGRUPAR, both as a means of food security and nutrition and as a final goal. This article provides insights into how gender-related data informs the project, the threats faced by women farmers,…

  • A Call for Transformative Actions on Gender and Inequality

    A Call for Transformative Actions on Gender and Inequality

    The new issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine (UAM37), Gender in Urban Food Systems, is now published. The articles in this issue identify the ways in which gender and inclusivity have been neglected in urban food policy, practice and research. The editors call upon the international community to lead the way in enabling truly transformative actions…

  • Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience

    Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience

    Author: Carolyn Fry This article originally appeared on: https://wle.cgiar.org/understanding-nairobi%E2%80%99s-urban-agriculture-sector-helps-enhance-equality-and-climate-resilience  Food makes up almost half of trading in the vibrant informal sector of Kenya’s capital city. Every day, farmers, processors and traders sell goods that are either locally generated or brought in from up-country. An estimated 250,000 households generate food within the city boundary. Together, these…