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The Habitat III Issue Papers have been prepared by the United Nations Task Team on Habitat III, a task force of UN agencies and programmes working together towards the elaboration of the New Urban Agenda. The Issue Papers were finalized during the UN Task Team writeshop held in New York...

The challenges of the global food system are often framed around feeding the world’s growing population. The issue is about much more than scale, however, with population rising but also shifting in character from predominately rural to increasingly urban. In the latter half of the 20th century the world's urban...

ONLY IN SPANISH INTA is in constant evolution and is constantly adapting to new demands. It develops intervention strategies in the territories established in the Regional Technological Plan. Among the new approaches, we find the actions developed by the Institution in urban and suburban areas, particularly in the City of Córdoba...

This article outlines how a theoretical approach that explores gender as ‘emplaced performance’ can improve the analytical value of gender by drawing attention to (1) the ways in which gender, as a socially and spatially contingent performance, is enrolled in the relationships that create the city, and (2) how the...

A lot has been written in recent years about technological change on Asia’s farms and the enabling context for that technological transformation, in the development of agricultural factor markets (such as land, variable input, and credit markets), in the “upstream segment” of the food supply chain. This report, instead, is...