Exploring the Urban Food Actions Database
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Food production and ecosystem management - Methodology and Training Materials
La Costanza is a 'family' (LCF) farm located in Chía, Cundinamarca, 23 km north of Bogota. LCF is integrated by Mireya (owner); Dora (farmer from Gachetá), Jessica and Laura (Dora's daughters, though primary students, they are learning agroecology) and María and Constantino (fully dedicated to agroecology). Although Chía has been...
Colombia (Latin America and the Caribbean)
2016 - Constantino Casasbuenas
Food production and ecosystem management - Methodology and Training Materials
Red H Farm is located in Sebastopol, a small town in Sonoma County, about one hour north of San Francisco, California on the western coast of the United States of America. Red H Farm is owned and operated by Caitlin Hachmyer, a 32-year old woman born and raised in Sebastopol....
United States of America (North America)
2016 - Caitlin Hachmyer
Social and economic equity - Reports & Case Studies
Cash remittances have grown rapidly over the past two decades and are now at an all-time high. The World Bank estimates that international remittances reached USD436 billion in 2014, and predicts that they will increase to USD601 billion in 2016. Studies of remitting practices and impacts often define remittances to...
(Africa)
2016 - Jonathan Crush, Mary Caesar
Food production and ecosystem management - Academic Literature
Food security is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in the Global North, especially in urban areas. Because such areas do not always have good access to nutritionally adequate food, the question of how to supply them is an urgent priority in order to maintain a healthy population. Urban and peri-urban...
(Global coverage)
2016 - Ina Opitz, Regine Berges, Annette Piorr, Thomas Krikser
Food supply and distribution - Policy Briefs
By 2050, nearly 63 per cent of the total population of Southeast Asia is expected to live in urban areas. Not only is urbanisation profoundly changing urban-rural relations, it is also shifting patterns of food consumption. Governments in the region are modernising food systems, in part to meet the needs...
(Asia and the Pacific)
2016 - Bill Vorley