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

Food supply and distribution - Policy Briefs
How do markets encourage the adoption of sustainable agriculture?
Incentives and enabling measures encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agricultural practices. They include im-proving farmers’ education and technical training, imple-menting strategies for reducing the costs of inputs, en-acting organic farming legislation that protects product integrity, and providing financial incentives for adoption of sustainable practices. Market demand for sustainable products can...
(Global coverage)
2017 - FAO
Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food production and ecosystem management, Food supply and distribution, Food loss and waste - Reports & Case Studies
Urban Agroecology - Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 –
This issue of the UA Magazine is a joint effort of the RUAF Foundation and the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience (CAWR). It aims to articulate and document the emerging field of urban agroecology. Definitions differ and tend to reflect the various ways the term agroecology is understood in...
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan province of China (Global coverage)
2017 - Coll.
Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Mapping the Invisible: The Informal Food Economy of Cape Town, South Africa
The informal sector remains an important component of the South African food system, despite the rapid transformation and consolidation of the formal food sector since the end of apartheid. (Greenberg 2010, Ramabulana 2011, Vink and van Rooyen 2009). The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (Act 47 of 1996) and the...
South Africa (Africa)
2017 - Jane Battersby, Maya Marshak and Ncedo Mngqibisa
Sustainable diets and nutrition, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe, Malawi
Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. In Southern Africa, empirical research has uncovered extensive food insecurity at the household scale in cities with an abundance of food.1 An urban household...
Malawi (Africa)
2017 - Emmanuel Chilanga, Liam Riley, Juliana Ngwira, Chisomo Chalinda and Lameck Masitala
Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
The supermarket revolution and food security in Namibia
Rapid urbanization in Africa has been accompanied by a major transformation in national and local food systems. Thomas Reardon and colleagues were the first to argue that this transformation was being driven by a “supermarket revolution” that involved increasingly greater control over food supply and marketing by international and local...
Namibia (Africa)
2017 - Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush and Jeremy Wagner
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