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Climate resilience & sustainability

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  • Climate resilience & sustainability

    RUAF supports cities in integrating (peri-) urban agriculture and forestry in local and national climate change plans, policies and disaster risk reduction strategies.

    Activities:

    • Developing frameworks and assessments to monitor and evaluate resilience
    • Building evidence
    • Building local staff capacity
    • Identifying urban agriculture and forestry models for climate-change mitigation and adaptation
    • UN Global Climate Action Awards – Interview with Ghent as winner
      Videos and podcasts / December 9, 2019

      UN Global Climate Action Awards – Interview with Ghent as winner

    • Services
      page / December 3, 2019

      Services

    • Call for papers: Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change—Possible Transformations
      News / November 26, 2019

      Call for papers: Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change—Possi...

    • Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
      partner / November 20, 2019

      Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems

    • City of Toronto
      partner / November 20, 2019

      City of Toronto

    • International Water Management Institute
      partner / November 20, 2019

      International Water Management Institute

    • Gent en Garde wins UN Global Climate Action Award
      News / November 18, 2019

      Gent en Garde wins UN Global Climate Action Award

    • Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology
      Publications / November 19, 2017

      Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology

    • Alison Blay Palmer on why she works on food
      Videos and podcasts / December 17, 2016

      Alison Blay Palmer on why she works on food

    • Publications / November 21, 2016

      Policy brief: Urban agriculture as a climate change strategy

    • Publications / May 2, 2016

      Enhancing climate resilience of Gorakhpur by buffering floods through climate-resi...

    • Publications / November 19, 2015

      Cities and Agriculture – Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems

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