region: Middle East and North Africa
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World Food Day 2024: Gaza’s women-led agribusinesses are a cornerstone of community food resilience
This World Food Day, RUAF shines a spotlight on community food resilience. We share the experiences of our colleagues at the Gaza Urban & Periurban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP), whose strong networks, forged over a decade, have been crucial in mitigating the emergency food situation since November 2023.
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GUPAP Community-led Action in crisis (CLA)
This one-pager explains the approach structure and mechanisms of the Community-Led Solidarity Marketing Campaigns (CLSMCs) introduced by the the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) in 2022 to enhance the resilience for Gaza urban women agriprenuers.
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Fact sheet on women agripreneurs’ rights from a food sovereignty perspective
This fact sheet produced by the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) provides context on agriculture in the Gaza strip before the intense war in Gaza since late 2023, and the roles and contribution of women in the local food system. It summarizes the challenges facing women agripreneurs.
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Al-Quarara Seed Bank success & resilience story
This short document produced by the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) tells the story of the Al-Quarara Seed Bank to safeguard 33 varieties of indigenous ‘Baladi’ seeds from extinction.
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The Women Producers’ Markets of Mezitli, Turkey
Author: Jess Halliday The Turkish city of Mezitli established its first markets exclusively for women producers in 2014. Six years later, some 650 women hold stalls at nine bi-weekly markets across the city, selling fruit and vegetables, olive oils, cakes, breads, desserts, teas, and all manner of other home-produced items. Hurrem Betul Levent Erdal, programme…
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Join us for #AfricanCITYFOODmonth
The month of July is #AfricanCITYFOODmonth and RUAF, together with ICLEI Africa, FAO, MUFPP, WWF and partners invite you to explore how we make resilient and nutritious food systems in African cities. The inaugural #AfricanCITYFOODmonth campaign will highlight diverse, innovative and evolving African urban food systems, providing a platform for local governments and food system…
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1,000 entrepreneurs invited to the 2020 Sustainable City Summit
The 28th edition of the Africa-France Summit on Sustainable Cities will take place 4-6 June 2020. On this occasion, France is offering 1000 young African entrepreneurs the opportunity to take part free of charge in the “City of Solutions” that will be held on the sidelines of this event. The young participants will have to…
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The FoodTech Challenge: submit your innovative solution to address food security
The FoodTech Challenge is a global competition that seeks innovative solutions to address food security. The competition supports the United Arabic Emirates (UAE) commitment to providing its population with sufficient, safe and nutritious food. The competition invites applicants from all backgrounds to join. University students and early-stage start-ups with prior experience in urban farming are…
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Transforming Land, Transforming Lives – Greening Innovation and Urban Agriculture in the Context of Forced Displacement
This report details the vision, mission, strategies and tactics for how the Lemon Tree Trust will undertake greening innovation in refugee camps.
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Growing Cities Growing Food
This book contains 7 thematic articles and 16 city cases from Africa, Latin America and Europe on urban agriculture and sustainable cities.