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

Governance and planning, Social and economic equity, Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Connecting smallholders to markets
Smallholders engage in many interrelated markets, but also face challenges in securing market access and eliciting benefits to support healthy livelihoods. Governments have an essential role to play in addressing their specific constraints and maximizing potential for beneficial access to reliable and remunerative markets. This will support governments’ efforts to...
(Global coverage)
2017 - Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Food supply and distribution - Articles
Going beyond local food
In many cities around the world, the local food movement has been instrumental in putting food on the agenda. However, is local better than global? A European research project called GLAMUR explored further the question. “What was at the beginning a simple question turned out to be not so simple”,...
(Europe)
2017 - Albane Gaspard
Food supply and distribution - Policy Briefs
Regional Supply Chains and the Food Economy of Malawi
This brief provides an overview of a unique data set that begins to systematically examine the regional supply chain in Lilongwe, Malawi. Sometimes referred to as ‘informal’ or ‘traditional,’ the regional food sector is critical to rural and urban food security and is a common and important source of income...
Malawi (Africa)
2017 - Stephanie A. White, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Michael W. Hamm, Kurt Richter, Carolyn Phiri
Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Urban food policies: proceedings of the international meeting on the experiences in Africa, Latin America and Asia
Looking back at the symposium "Urban Food Policies" organized from 16 to 18 November 2015 in Montpellier (France). The opportunity to explore, through concrete examples presented by political and technical leaders of urban governments, three levers of strategic actions that can be mobilized by cities and urban areas : markets...
(Global coverage)
2017 - S. Albert, J. Debru, N. Bricas, D. Conaré
Food supply and distribution - Reports & Case Studies
Global food policy report
The 2017 Global Food Policy Report provides perspective on the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017. This year’s report takes an in-depth look at how urbanization is affecting food security and nutrition, and how food policies can ensure that rural-urban...
(Global coverage)
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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