Urban Food Actions Platform

Food production depends and impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity, with spillover effects going beyond food. Urban and peri-urban agriculture and food processing can contribute to improving the resilience of territories in the face of climate change, natural disasters and disrupted suppy chains. Urban food consumption can also influence where and how food is produced. 

How can you optimize agriculture production while managing ecosystem services and biodiversity and improving resilience to climate change? Numerous examples are presented, explaining how to implement sustainable urban and peri-urban food production and processing; how these can mitigate the heat island effect, prevent floods, reduce the energy needed for cooling and heating buildings, improve social inclusion, (indirectly) raise awareness on combating food waste, or contribute to better access to healthy, diversified and fresh products. Resources on Urban and Peri-Urban Forestry are also available.

 

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City Region Food Systems to cope with COVID-19 and other pandemic emergencies
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In Medellin, the City Food Region System implemented a few years ago, enabled local producers, consumers and local government to keep an active food distribution system. Overall, the program generates income for producers, lowers the costs of supplying vendors and ensures a secure channel of food supply during the crisis....
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Much more than rural villages, urban metabolism depends on its surrounding region for key resources, such as food and water. This dependence puts locked-down cities across the globe under risk. Strengthening ‘rural-urban linkages’ becomes a stake aiming to make urban food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses.
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The COVID-19 Crisis and Food Systems: addressing threats, creating opportunities
This article discusses threats and opportunities the Covid-19 addresses to our food system. A table to be downloaded lists, for low-income context as well as for high-income context, how to mitigate impacts or adapt from food production to food consumption, including creating an enabling policy environment.
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