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This paper is focused on how agriculture – including the natural and cultural resources that sustain people in and around cities, and even in remote rural areas – provides important and reciprocal benefits to the sustainable development of both rural and urban communities (see definition of sustainable agriculture in glossary). The intended audiences are sustainable...

The Right to Food is enshrined within the South African Constitution. However, despite there being sufficient food available within the country, this right is not being met. Both nationally and within the City of Cape Town there are high levels of household food insecurity. The nature of food insecurity is...

ONLY IN FRENCH Rennes Declaration: For territorialized food systems The French Regions are committed to territorialized food systems since the conference co-organized by the Region of Brittany and the ARF on July 4, 2014 in Rennes. This conference was part of the official events organized by France in the framework of...

A recent FAO analysis of national household surveys collected between 2003 and 2008 shows that 1.4 million urban dwellers in Nicaragua and Guatemala were also food producers. Savings made on food purchases, along with sales of produce, accounted for more than one-fifth of their household income. Five years later, this...

Following the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched agricultural development programmes that made intensive use of agrochemicals and farm machinery. By 1980, when its population reached 10 million, the country was able to produce food for 40 million people. Cuba was also one of the world’s major producers of sugar, with annual...