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This factsheet provides information on the general knowledge collected by the city region food system (CRFS) project in its phase 2 regarding the assessment of risks for the CRFS of Kigali. Specifcally, the factsheet adresses the problem of climate schocks and Covid-19, and their impact on the food supply chain....

This comic strip is the story of research carried out on individual vegetable gardens over four years in the Montreal region. The reader will discover the importance of urban gardens for food production, for the healthy and greener cities, but also for gardeners. Urban gardens, in fact, represent an important...

ONLY IN FRENCH Crossing the Sustainable Development Goals with the actions of a Territorial Food Project (TFP) makes it possible to question the strategic and operational ambitions of a territory, with regard to social, environmental and economic issues, as well as its food security and governance. This is the ambitious of...

Food and food security are not areas where municipalities have roles prescribed by law; nonetheless, they are responsible for a range of overlapping services and functions related to food. Competences for policymaking are divided across many different departments, local authorities, and agencies whose functions involve multiple actors, and both scholars...

The purpose of this handbook is to provide practical guidance for any city wishing to adopt and implement a monitoring framework of its urban food policy, tailored to its own context and reflecting recommendations from the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). The guidance sets out practical steps, simple tools,...