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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Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Articles
These webpages from the Michigan State University is dedicated to evidence-based knowledge, critical thinking, and news on Covid-19 impacts on Food Systems from developing countries, more specifically from African countries and Nigeria.
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Social and economic equity - Articles
The spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic across every corner of the globe has resulted in drastic changes to our everyday lives and future plans. It has shaken the very core of everyday activities from working and learning, to commuting and, of course, eating! The SHARECITY project has been...
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Kenya (Africa)
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Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Directories
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Canada (North America)
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Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution - Directories
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks project has compiled a list of resources, models/examples, funding, and other shared practices in COVID-19 response useful for food policy councils and other groups working at the local and state level. The resources focus on: 1_FPCs’ roles of convening, collaborating...
United States of America (North America)
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