Exploring the Urban Food Actions Database
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Governance and planning, Food production and ecosystem management - Reports & Case Studies
In times of crisis, or a global pandemic, the need for quick, innovative solutions is ever-more pressing, as essential everyday systems such as our food supply chain become strained. These innovations can take many shapes, but it is the citizen-driven innovations radically challenging how we eat and produce food today. In...
(Europe)
2020 - Coll.
Governance and planning, Food loss and waste - Policy Briefs
Food waste is a climate issue, representing 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The UK has a long-standing reputation as an international leader on food waste action: now it is time to realise the potential of ambitious food waste prevention to deliver climate goals. This policy brief sets out the overwhelming...
United Kingdom (Europe)
2020 - Coll.
Food loss and waste - Reports & Case Studies
Turning municipal solid waste into energy through the waste-to-energy process is one of the popular strategies of solving the rise of generated waste. It involves incinerating waste to produce energy in the form of electricity or heat. Unfortunately, lack of access to finance and a gap in technological knowledge made...
China (Asia and the Pacific)
2020 - Coll.
Governance and planning, Food loss and waste - Articles
Food waste is one of the most important issues of current food systems, and cities are crucial actors in tackling food waste, launching effective policies and initiatives to address it. By looking at 40 cities across 16 European countries, this study aims to present a new framework for assessing urban...
(Europe)
2020 - Fattibene, Daniele, Francesca Recanati, Katarzyna Dembska, and Marta Antonelli.
Food production and ecosystem management - Reports & Case Studies
The rapid expansion of cities in West Africa has implications for urban cropland.This study aimed to assess the dynamics of cropland in West African cities overtime and space, to identify key drivers, and to report the effects of changing cropland on farmers and farmers’ resilience strategies. Cities studied were Accra...
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali (Africa)
2020 - Karg H, Drechsel P, DittrichN, Cauchois A.