region: Global
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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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Rooftop Urban Agriculture
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific…
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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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Lecture by Luc Mougeot (IDRC) on urban agricultures without borders
Luc talks about: Urban Agricultures Without Borders: Lessons, Logics and Liabilities. Recorded at the Agri4D Conference on Rural Transformation and Urbanization – 20 September 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Entrepreneurship in Urban Agriculture
RUAF with the University of Bologna, Horticity, Agreenium, Vegepolys, SWUAS, Hei-tro, STePS, Mammut film and Grow the Planet developed a distance learning course in the framework of the Urban Green Train project. The consortium developed a series of 5 modules on urban agriculture and entrepreneurship: 1: Introduction to urban agriculture concept and types 2: Resource…
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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.