Sentences with phrase «resilient urban food»

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

Hence, supporting short supply chain initiatives and related SME's seem to be an important mechanism for building resilient urban food systems.

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GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

The purpose of CITYFOOD is to raise awareness on resilient city - region food systems and (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture, create an advocacy platform for cities to gain political recognition and support from national governments and international support organizations, to provide information to cities around the world, stimulate exchange of experiences, identify and disseminate important lesson and good practices, and facilitate cooperation between cities worldwide and between local governments and civil society in this area.

The development of urban agriculture and urban food provisioning systems is increasingly considered an important part of sustainable and resilient urban development by local and national governments around the world.

During the Forum — and in response to the demands for information, training, technical and policy advice, and financial assistance by an increasing number of cities, ICLEI and RUAF Foundation, launched the proposal for setting up a CITYFOOD network on resilient city - region food systems and urban agriculture.

The sustainability of urban agriculture is closely related to its contributions to the development of a sustainable and resilient city that is socially inclusive, food - secure, productive and environmentally - healthy.

about City region food systems and food waste management - Linking urban and rural areas for sustainable and resilient development.

The RUAF Foundation prepared a paper on «The role of urban agriculture in building resilient cities in developing countries» for (and published by) the UK - Foresight «State of Science Review 19 (SR 19) and the Global Food and Farming Futures Project, which is run by the UK's Government Office for Science.

The first session highlighted good practices, strategies, and policies in achieving resilient and low - carbon urban food systems in cities and city regions across the globe.

The RUAF Foundation, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Urban Harvest programme of the CGIAR institutes, the Chinese Urban Agriculture Association and the Nanjing Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, organised a session called «Urban and peri-urban agriculture for Resilient Cities (Green, Productive and Socially Inclusive)» during the World Urban Forum of UN Habitat from 3 to 7 November 2008 in Nanjing, China.

SUPURBFOOD, RUAF and ICLEI jointly organised a special Urban Food Forum during the 2015 ICLEI's Resilient Cities Congress (June 2015, Bonn).

Urban policies need to incorporate food security considerations and focus more on building cities that are more resilient to crises.

Creating more urban farms and more food production centers closer to where the market is, whether they are traditional outdoor growing areas, rooftop farms, indoor hydroponic and aquaponics systems, vertical farms, or vacant lot gardens, can go a long way toward building a more resilient local food system and reducing the ecological footprint of our diets.