Focus-area: City region food systems
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Mayor of Quito invites other local governments to reflect on their current food system
In this video, the Mayor of Quito (Ecuador) explains how Quito considers the development of urban agriculture as an indicator of sustainability and has included it as a relevant action in the Quito Resilience Plan. Quito was one of the seven city-regions of the world in the city region food system assessment project of RUAF…
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CITYFOOD: Linking Cities on Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Systems
Cities present constraints but also opportunities for building sustainable urban food systems. They can preserve food diversity, stimulate food innovations (short supply chains, urban agriculture, new forms of supply procurement, etc.), and have the potential to optimize resource management, infrastructure and waste recycling. Examples of successful city food strategies include: Promoting and integrating urban agriculture…
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CITYFOOD network brochure
The ICLEI-RUAF CITYFOOD network aims to accelerate local and regional government action on sustainable and resilient city-region food systems by combining networking with training, policy guidance and technical expertise.
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City region food systems. What and why
This brochure describes and operationalises the concept of a city region food system.
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City Region Food System Indicator Framework
The City Region Food System (CRFS) indicator framework is a practical assessment and planning tool to help cities to assess and plan sustainable CRFS.
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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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Assessing and Planning Sustainable City Region Food Systems: Insights from Two Latin American Cities
This article analyses the content, definition and delimitations of the City Region Food Systems concept by presenting two case studies from Latin America.
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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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The role of private sector in city region food systems
This study serves as a starting point to enhance private sector engagement to build more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.