Focus-area: Urban agriculture
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Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience
Author: Carolyn Fry This article originally appeared on: https://wle.cgiar.org/understanding-nairobi%E2%80%99s-urban-agriculture-sector-helps-enhance-equality-and-climate-resilience Food makes up almost half of trading in the vibrant informal sector of Kenya’s capital city. Every day, farmers, processors and traders sell goods that are either locally generated or brought in from up-country. An estimated 250,000 households generate food within the city boundary. Together, these…
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Urban agriculture thrives in Nairobi during COVID-19 crisis
Author: Sam Ikua, Mazingira Institute The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted urban rural linkages, posing unprecedented challenges to cities and their systems. City lockdowns have affected the flow of people and goods into and out of cities. This disruption has created food shortages, putting a majority of the urban population at risk of being food insecure.…
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RUAF Rooted in Cities: 20 years in urban agriculture and urban food systems
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Certificate programme in food security
Do you have a keen passion and interest in food security? Then, register today for our post-degree Certificate in Food Security! What will you learn? The certificate explores the challenges of creating sustainable food systems based on social justice and democratic decision-making that will ensure the right of dignified access to healthy food. The program’s…
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Spotlight: Urban farmers’ networks in East Africa
The urban food policy community is alert to the benefits of higher-level Food Policy Councils and city food departments, but there is less attention on organisations dealing with urban food at community level. This means there is untapped potential for sharing experiences and learning between urban farmers’ networks in different city and country contexts. Any…
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A menu of actions to shape urban food environments for improved nutrition
The menu of actions contains over 70 examples of policies and programmes that city governments have implemented to improve food security and nutrition by making healthy and nutritious food more accessible, desirable, and affordable.
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Distance learning courses on urban agriculture and urban food security
The RUAF Foundation in cooperation with Ryerson University (Canada) developed 4 distance learning courses (each containing 14 learning modules) on urban agriculture and urban food security. Understanding Urban Agriculture. Includes modules on the definition of the urban agriculture; its history and actual trends; the stakeholders in urban agriculture; its benefits and risks; its constraints and…
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 36 – Food Policy Councils
In this Urban Agriculture Magazine, we explore food policy councils, their approach to inclusiveness, their impacts, and challenges faced.
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Event: We feed the city
6 December 2019, Belgium In 8 interactive workshops, you discover how Rikolto and its partners work towards a sustainable food transition, in cities around the globe. We travel from Leuven to Hanoi. From Quito to Arusha. From Solo to Tegucigalpa. Don’t expect a presentation of what Rikolto is doing! We especially want to stimulate discussions…
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Urban agriculture in Nairobi
This video portrays Francis Wachira, one of Kenya’s most successful urban farmers in Nairobi. Francis a pioneer, leader, a mentor and role model embodies the spirit and promise of a new dawn of urbanisation, one that recognises the vital role of urban farmers.