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Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda
On 26 January 2017, 12 Dutch cities, the Province of Gelderland and 3 national Ministries jointly signed the Urban Agenda on Food, with the objective to strengthen the Dutch food system together with the private sector, knowledge institutes and societal organisations. The partners will specifically work on four themes: 1) Governance innovation; 2) Ecological and economic sustainability innovation; 3) Regional…
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Food policy review for the Municipality of Ede (The Netherlands)
From December 2016 to February 2017, RUAF supported the Municipality of Ede with an external assessment of their municipal food policy which has been implemented for the past 2 years. Part of this policy development review included learning from other cities. Therefore, on the 15th of December 2016 the Dutch food team of Ede visited…
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Interview with Henk Renting on urban food policies and food movements
Henk Renting of RUAF Foundation was interviewed by Wayne Roberts on urban food policies and food movement building.
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Recordings of FAO-RUAF event on assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems
FAO and RUAF Foundation hosted the closing event of their joint programme on assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems (CRFS). The programme provided assistance to local governments in identifying and understanding gaps, bottlenecks and opportunities for sustainable planning of food policies and strategies to improve urban food systems with strong rural urban linkages.…
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Lecture by Luc Mougeot (IDRC) on urban agricultures without borders
Luc talks about: Urban Agricultures Without Borders: Lessons, Logics and Liabilities. Recorded at the Agri4D Conference on Rural Transformation and Urbanization – 20 September 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Entrepreneurship in Urban Agriculture
RUAF with the University of Bologna, Horticity, Agreenium, Vegepolys, SWUAS, Hei-tro, STePS, Mammut film and Grow the Planet developed a distance learning course in the framework of the Urban Green Train project. The consortium developed a series of 5 modules on urban agriculture and entrepreneurship: 1: Introduction to urban agriculture concept and types 2: Resource…
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Using food as tool for settlement and integration in Toronto
Toronto won the 2017 Milan Pact Awards with the highest score for the good practice Community Food Works for Newcomers: Using food as tool for settlement and integration. The programme provides training at no cost to obtain a Food Handler Training and Certification and supports refugees and low-income residents who are job-ready to access employment…
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A growing menu for the urban food agenda
The regulars at the Resilient Cities congress might recall that when urban food first appeared as a topic in the congress series, it almost seemed out of place – a topic more fitting to the agricultural community than urbanists. The conversation started from the basics, emphasizing food as a system, which includes producers, consumers and many other stakeholders all along…
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Hungry for more: Cities are shaping the global food agenda
It is clear that the food, urban, resilience and sustainability agendas must come together. At the Urban Food Forum at Resilient Cities 2017, Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI and Thierry Giordano, Decentralized Cooperation Advisor at FAO, drew an analogy between the way cities are seizing the food agenda and how they got a…
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Alison Blay Palmer on why she works on food
This video was used as a trailer for Alison’s induction into the Royal Society of Canada at their Annual General Meeting. Shot at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to highlight the research Alison is doing on Global Food Systems. @John Ternan.