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Today, more than 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and consumes 70% of all food produced globally. By 2050, the urban population is expected to grow even more. This presents a challenge: urban areas need efficient food systems that ensure food security, safeguard the environment and promote...

This international seminar on parliamentary networks and food security challenges will also be the first meeting of the parliamentary network on food security in Africa and the Arab world, an initiative of Association of Senate, Shoora and Equivalent Councils in Africa and Arab World (ASSECCA). The event will bring together...

The Fifth Annual Gathering of the signatory cities of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) will take place from 7-9 October, organized by the city of Montpellier in collaboration with the MUFPP Secretariat.  The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact was signed on the 15 October 2015 in Milan by more than...

Digital technologies are profoundly changing our societies. They act as a catalyst for development and, if harnessed, can help reverse negative trends in the Eastern European region. Still, good practices are fragmented, and rooted to a particular, often local, context which does not permit the region to fully benefit from...

The recent approval of the Decade of Family Farming by the United Nations Assembly offers an extraordinary opportunity to contribute significantly to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in an inclusive, collaborative and coherent manner, taking into account the multidimensionality of family farming. During the Regional Launch of...