Urban Food Actions Platform

Food systems should ensure that enough nutritious food is available for everyone, whether they live in urban or rural areas, and they are poor households. The challenge is to do so while minimizing any harmful impact on the environment. 

This thematic area focuses on efficient and resilient food supply and distribution systems. For instance strengthening the rural-urban food supply chain in order to face and adapt to disruptive events; developing sustainable food transportation and logistics planning in order to reduce carbon emissions by improving alternative fuels or means of transport and thus improve connections with peri-urban and rural nearby areas; strengthening or developing energy efficient municipal public markets including farmers markets, retail and wholesale markets; creating an enabling environment for the informal food system sector and their stakeholders.

Related Resources

Governance and planning, Food supply and distribution - Frameworks
2023 – WFP Urban Strategy – Achieving zero hunger in an urbanising world
Recognizing urban areas as a crucial operational context, the WFP Urban Strategy provides a common vision and strategic framework for WFP's contribution to achieving zero hunger in urban areas With poverty, inequality, and risks increasingly concentrating in cities, the burden of food insecurity and malnutrition is gradually shifting from rural to...
(Global coverage)
2023 - World Food Programme - WFP
Governance and planning, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Guidelines
Assessment of retail food environments and green spaces for healthy cities - Methodological guidance based on the experiences in Dar es Salaam, Lima, Tunis
Developing and maintaining healthy retail food environments and green spaces isof the utmost and pressing importance in urban centres. To this end, it is crucial to provide cities with tools to assess the availability, accessibility and use of food outlets and green spaces that facilitate healthy eating and living for...
Peru, Tanzania, Tunisia (Global coverage)
2022 - FAO, GAIN, WOF
Governance and planning, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Directories
Planning Food System Transitions
In this special section, authors approach urban, as well as city-region food systems, to discuss the implications of the deep changes needed in terms of degrowth, social justice and contesting the political and economic hegemony. It gathers selected contributions to the 9th International AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference held at Universidad Politécnica de...
(Global coverage)
2022 - Coll.
Governance and planning, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Assessing risk in times of climate change and COVID-19: City region food system of Antananarivo, Madagascar
This factsheet provides information on the general knowledge collected by the City region food system (CRFS) project in its phase 2 regarding the assessment of risks for the CRFS of Antananarivo. The data was collected through literature review and stakeholder consultations. Some priorities are identified to increase the CRFS resilience...
Madagascar (Africa)
2021 - Coll.
Food supply and distribution - Guidelines
Mapping of territorial markets - Methodology and guidelines for participatory data collection
Malnutrition is a major global challenge, and improving nutrition is a key priority for global development; hence ensuring availability, physical accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious food at territorial level is crucial. A number of studies show that the majority of fruits and vegetables in Low-Income Countries (LICs) are...
(Global coverage)
2021 - Coll.
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