Focus-area: Jobs, equity & social justice

Integrating Food into Urban Planning

This volume provides 20 city-based experiences with planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition for the urban poor.

November 21, 2018
Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 35 – Youth in Food. Opportunities for education and employment

This issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine explores challenges and solutions raised by migration pressures with a focus on youth employment in city region food systems.

November 19, 2018
Citizen-generated Evidence for a More Sustainable and Healthy Food System

If communities can generate evidence themselves, either as primary data or from existing information, they may be more effective in lobbying and advocacy around their priorities, and less dependent on others to set the agenda. This discussion paper by Hivos and IIED focuses on evidence as a means for defending and improving the food system of the poor,…

April 19, 2018
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.

November 25, 2017
Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology

This issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine by RUAF and the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience documents the emerging field of urban agroecology.

November 19, 2017
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…

October 20, 2017
Building future food leaders

This guide on building future food leaders showcases portraits, from inspiring people that operate at the grassroots to make changes within the food system.

December 19, 2016
The role of private sector in the Bristol (UK) city region food system

This study on Bristol, UK, contributes to a better understanding of how different types of private sector players can shape/enable the existence of a city region food system.

August 19, 2016
Practice brief: SMEs and sustainable urban food provisioning

Development of commercial to social enterprises offers new opportunities for job and revenue creation for different actors in the food chain.

September 20, 2015
From Seed to Table Programme. Final report

This report provides a synthesis of the results achieved under the RUAF “From Seed to Table (FStT)” programme implemented in 17 cities in 7 regions.

October 25, 2011

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