Limited or lack of access to sufficient and nutritious food underpins food insecurity and malnutrition. The reasons for this are many that range from food deserts to lack of income by poor urban dwellers to buy nutritious food.
Find out how to ensure easy access to food for everyone. For instance, building forms of social protection systems - food banks, community food kitchens, social restaurants, emergency food pantries, nutrition-sensitive cash-transfer programs etc. - or supporting grassroots activities dedicated to provide vulnerable populations with access to healthy and sustainable food.
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This survey, conducted by France Urbaine, in partnership with Résolis and Terres en Villes, presents how French cities have acted to mitigate the negative effects of lockdown on food systems: means and levers to ensure that everyone has access to food in sufficient quality and quantity
France (Europe)
2020 - Kader Makhlouf ; Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil ; Marc Nielsen
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Local Policies
Initiatives set up by the Municipality of Milan to contain the effects of COVID-19 on the food system of the city. Specific actions concern access to food, and food delivery for vulnerable groups.
Italy (Europe)
2020 - Official document
Social and economic equity - Guidelines
A practical tool to explain:
How the pandemic may cause hunger and nutrition problems in municipalities;
What local governments can do to reduce food security problems during a pandemic.
(Global coverage)
2020 - Official document
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Regulation
This index includes municipal policies concerning food access during the COVID-19 and other emergency periods. Such measures aim at:
exceed ordinary non-emergency-time policies;
prioritize health and/or equity considerations.
School district policies and other special board policies are not included.
United States of America (North America)
2020 - Coll.
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Guidelines
A guidance to help schools ensuring access to free school meals to eligible pupils.
United Kingdom (Europe)
2020 - Official document