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ONLY IN FRENCH: Nowadays, urban agriculture is considered as one of the potential solutions to feed cities in the face of increasing crises caused by climate change. This guide is a methodological tool to assist in the decision making process for urban land owners and managers (such as local authorities or...

On 29 July 2022, FAO celebrated the launch of its new joint publication “Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Sourcebook – From production to food systems” with the RUAF Global Partnership on Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems (RUAF) and Rikolto. This event introduced the book and demonstrated how it can support...

By 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion, 70 percent of which will be living in urban areas, mainly in low and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia. At the same time the current COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing climate emergency is forcing us to rethink how...

The unsustainability of the globalized food system is a relevant debate. Despite the vast amount of literature on sustainable food systems, there is little research explaining how food system innovations can scale impact and influence systemic change. Moreover, not much literature considers the territorial context in which innovations take place,...

This paper assesses the contribution made by the cultivation of urban gardens to the food self-sufficiency of mountain municipalities at risk of food desertification during 2020 in South Tyrol (Italy). A food desert is a territory where people are food-insecure because of job/income loss or through the absence of food retail facilities....