Dear leaders - I received and would like to contribute to the scope of Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation
I find the proposed scope comprehensive but potential 2 directions would add more relevant depth to cover some gaps and omissions:
-Scope within boundaries: Provisioning and evaluating resources of cities and supporting gaps as per urban boundaries and mapping of current state vs future state would create a measure for self sufficiency and a road to transformation. This analysis and language especially in state of emergency like earthquakes, famines, wars.. are lacking this clarity of preparedness ,mitigation and recovery stages.
Especially water- food and energy logistics would be key pillars to strengthen in the food security context. A similar study is prepared for Istanbul city with the context of emergency preparedness especially for risks as earthquakes and other potential climate related risks.
-Virtual trade of resources and impact within boundaries: Impact of food miles and embedded resources at the point of consumption ( or waste at that matter) is not immediately referred to and acted against. CREATE project ( Cross-Border Climate Vulnerabilities and Remote Impacts of Food Systems of the EU, Turkey and Africa is investigating Trade, Climate Risk and Adaptation across trade routes and products with the aim to address remote climate risks and impacts related to food systems, Cross Border Vulnerabilities of food also applies to city boundaries and able to develop a novel cross-border climate risk/impact assessment methodology for food value chains based on embedded resource use (e.g. water, land, carbon) trade concept . See more in Create4climate.com “Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation”,
Looking fwd to further collaboration and input. Kind regards
Didem Mahsunlar