Focus-area: Food policies & governance
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CITYFOOD webinar: Food Policy Councils
Marielle Dubbeling (RUAF) and Thiago Soares Barbizan (ICLEI) organised this CITYFOOD webinar in May 2018. Webinar hosts presentations from the City of Antananarivo (Madagascar) and the Municipality of Ede (The Netherlands).
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Policy brief: The role of private sector in city region food systems
The policy brief highlights six policy pointers on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient 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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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.…