Items tagged:
Urban food security
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Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
The World Resources Institute Ross Centre ‘Prize for Cities’ competition has awarded its grand prize to the municipality of Rosario, to recognise major progress in building climate resilience and equity through urban agriculture
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Feeding all city inhabitants
Cecilia Tacoli explores how food and nutrition security in urban areas is often overlooked by policymakers and city governments
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How Dhaka's urban poor are dealing with COVID-19
COVID-19 presents not only a health crisis, but a food crisis for Dhaka’s poorest. Guest blogger John Taylor describes how urban poor communities have risen to the challenge
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Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food
Food insecurity, malnutrition and obesity are increasingly becoming urban issues, affecting the health of millions of children and adults. The new issue of Environment & Urbanization looks at the wider context of urban food and nutrition security and the challenges for policymakers
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Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor
As urban food insecurity attracts growing interest in policy debates, Cecilia Tacoli makes the case for ensuring that the views of poor urban residents both inform and shape solutions.
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How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity
There is growing interest in food consumption and its links to urbanisation but the views of the real experts, the urban poor, do not get the attention they deserve. IIED and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights are asking poor women in cities in Cambodia and Nepal about the challenges of putting food on the table
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Reframing food security for an urbanising world
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030 means taking account of changes in both rural and urban contexts. Cecilia Tacoli reports back from a workshop organised with IFAD on some of the issues raised
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Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors
Street-food vendors' businesses are often threatened in the name of progress, but a new initiative from IIED and Hivos is looking to bridge the divide, protecting livelihoods and an important source of cheap food
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Building fairer food futures
Powerful images from Uganda and Indonesia highlight the importance of informal food vendors in the food systems of the rural and urban poor
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Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
One in three urban citizens in Asia and Africa live in informal settlements. It’s time to consider their priorities when shaping urban food security policies.
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Introduction to urbanisation and rural-urban linkages
Understanding urbanisation and the links between rural and urban areas is fundamental to making the most of the global transformations happening around the world, and to challenging the many myths that exist
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Urban food security and consumption
The multiple causes of food insecurity – poverty, urbanisation, climate change – must be matched by a coordinated approach that addresses income, living conditions and affordable food, as well as resilience to climate change
