Recording of the CFS 50 hybrid Side Event held on 12 October 2022...

Este video muestra los resultados del Programa de Alimentación Escolar activado en Portoviejo, Ecuador, en línea con el Marco de la FAO para la Agenda Alimentaria Urbana. Este proyecto impacta sobre un problema muy importante en el Ecuador: la malnutrición en niños en edad escolar, y mejora la economía de las asociaciones agropecuarias y agricultores de las zonas...  

This report summarizes the major outcomes of the dialogues that were conducted by more than 26 local governments and brought together about 1000 stakeholders under the partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in contribution to the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021

This video shows the collaboration between FAO, the City of Kigali and the Rwanda Rural Rehabilitation Initiative to create a Task Force on Food Waste Reduction and Management to address these issues...

Food waste management in Nairobi County...

FAO presents the Urban Food Agenda and the Green Cities Initiative in Nairobi

Sustainable Public Food Procurement (PFP) is a key game changer for food systems transformation. It can influence food consumption and food production, and it can deliver social, environmental and economic benefits to achieve sustainable food systems for healthy diets... FAO has developed this publication with the Alliance of Bioversity International, CIAT and Editora da UFRGS to contribute to the understanding, dissemination and use of PFP as a development tool in particular in the case of school meals programmes. The publication is divided into 2 volumes: VOLUME 1 - researchers, policymakers and development partners can find evidence on how PFP can be used as a development...

"The critical role of urban, local and regional governments in resilient food system". This N4G Side Event wanted to raise awareness of urban, local and regional governments and their role in...

Mirian Johanna Zambrano Benavides is the Project Coordinator of the Feeding Urbanization FAO Ecuador Project. In this podcast we explore public food procurement in Manta, Ecuador - as the city is an example of local food procurement complimentary to the country’s centralised food procurement model. Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and One Planet Network YouTube or ICLEI Youtube.  Click here to know more about the project.    

Cities call for collective action to transform our urban food systems...