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Many city-dwellers have limited time for shopping and cooking and they rely increasingly on processed and convenience foods, including street foods. Poor shelter, lack of sanitation and hygiene, and insufficient social services in slum areas further compound the problems of the poor. The urban dimension of malnutrition has received so far limited specific attention, although under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies can still be found in most, if not all, cities.

Excessive intake of energy, coupled with limited physical activity, lead to rising problems of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. These problems are increasingly found among the poorer sectors of society, where it is not uncommon to find overweight and obese adults living with underweight children, amid widespread micronutrient deficiencies.

Policy-makers must move beyond the prevailing commodity approach and start thinking of whole diets and food systems, and seek to remove major obstacles to sustainable nutrition, such as policies that subsidize harmful practices expansion of the agro-industrial model, including the production of biofuels and socio-economic inequity including gender discrimination and violation of human rights. In the decades to come, the food and agriculture system will need to change to meet the related challenges of rising demand, access and affordability of the variety of safe foods required for healthy diets, in a context of increased frequency of natural disasters, shifting climate patterns, and growing resource scarcity, particularly of arable land and water.

But this change can only happen of we adopt a different perspective and focus on demand i. Failures in development projects are usually due to over-simplification and focus on a specific ministry. We need a holistic approach. It is time to move from linear to systemic thinking and aim for nutrition needs rather than productivity. The multi-functional role of agriculture for nutrition and health, cultural diversity, incomes, resilience to climate change… must be acknowledged and encouraged.

The way people behave and consume eventually drives food systems, and is ultimately a major determinant of production and ecosystem management. Consumers and citizens in urban areas are able through their daily purchases, and through policy and procurement by agencies of local authorities, to make a significant impact on the food system and improve the livelihoods of both rural and urban people.

They therefore have a key role to play in the transformation of agriculture and food systems, and can generate a WIN-WIN dynamic which would improve both health and environmental management. Moderating meat consumption would for example decrease greenhouse gas emissions as well saturated fat intake, cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer. Existing dietary guidelines should therefore be updated into sustainable dietary guidelines as the basis for agriculture and food security policies and programmes, as well as consumer information.

Nutrition is an ecosystem service and needs to be considered as such along with other ecosystem services such as water and clean air. An agriculture anchored in basic ecological principles and respectful of its footprint can provide an alternative in terms of crop and animal production, employment, and use of natural resources energy, land, water and forests. Biodiversity offers a wealth of untapped potential for livelihoods, health, nutrition and environments and there is much to learn from traditional and local food systems in terms of sustainability.

Protection and management of biodiversity plants, including trees, and animals is therefore key to locally appropriate diets, sustainable food systems and resilient environments. In order to be sustainable, diets must be healthy, compatible with sustainable management of natural resources and social equity.

They should therefore benefit both producers and consumers rather than pitch them against each other. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable; nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimizing natural and human resources.

The concept of sustainable diets must be operationalized; and the contribution of food production to livelihoods from farm to fork, and their impact on the health of both producers and consumers must be assessed and monitored. Such a shift will require policy and institutional changes and more attention to political economy. Given the impact of food and agriculture systems on nutrition and health, it comes as no suprise that health system professionals are shifting towards a food system perspective. Urban food policy and planning efforts are increasingly addressing obesity and NCDs at local level.

There is no good health without good nutrition, and healthy diets depend on agriculture. Yet public agriculture and health agencies interact little, and are guided by distinct and sometimes contradictory objectives. Agriculture agencies and ministries aim for greater food and feed production with available resources and technology, while health ministries focus on disease control.

Consumers, and consumer associations, have a key role to play through reorienting demand and reporting on the impact of supply policies. Urban decision makers can help create a more diversified food supply and there is increasing awareness and experience in food system planning among local governments, civil society and the private sector. There is a wealth of innovative and promising solutions at local level to guide them. Policy and programmes linking food and nutrition security with economic development, biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation can and must become more integrated.

Institutional set-up and procedures have to be revisited accordingly from the local level upward, and people reconnected to policy makers. The key to successful policies is local empowerment and multi-stakeholder ownership of the policy decisions. We need more partnerships, multi-stakeholder discussions and the reform of institutions to address the complexity of nutrition and sustainability.

Priority should be given to policy dialogue and coherence, as well joint action-learning in a multidisciplinary context. Practice-based evidence, knowledge management and networking are essential to operationalize and accelerate the shift towards sustainable food systems and diets, with production and consumption within environmental limits. Food and nutrition are at a crossroads. If we aim for sustainable development, we will need to bring together economics, social equity, and environmental management.

We cannot avoid any longer the need to deal with complexity and this can best be done at decentralised level where local institutions have to face concrete issues and develop pragmatic approaches. Governance at all levels is key to bring all stakeholders to respond to local needs and opportunities, support geographic alignment and integration of productive and social programmes, foster intersectoral collaboration and harmonize policy-making.

Many became aware of the issue in , when food prices peaked. More than 20 countries around the world experienced food riots in urban areas. Nutrition and sustainability must be central in our efforts to reduce poverty and hunger. These issues are complex and need a holistic, human-centered approach. It will also allow municipalities to broaden their strategies and contribute to the post agenda. A diverse, nutritious and safe diet offers the opportunity for increased resilience, sustainability, and advances in human health, nutrition, productivity and livelihoods.

Hunger estimates today remain around million. While the persistent burden of under-nutrition is seen as the unfinished health agenda of the 20 th Century, poor diets and unhealthy lifestyles are the emerging threat for the 21 st century. WHO estimated in that more than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight and at least 2. Health is a strong motivating factor for people to change their behavior. There are therefore big opportunities for triple wins of health, environment and development. Climate change is without a doubt the first international issue to require absolute solidarity.

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Its effects naturally transcend borders, whatever their nature, while its treatment continues to be countered by conflicts of interest, economic lobbies and governmental caution. It is also a question of democracy. First and foremost, however, the challenge is one that concerns our social model, our consumption, our lifestyles and work habits, and the new points of reference that, today, must define the framework of our development and our liberation.

The report, based on more than 30 consultations with experts, representatives of the French autorities and the European Commission, and networks of elected officials, as well as responses from local governments to a dedicated questionnaire is developing three major steps: Local governments are crucial to mobilization for Paris Climate ; 3. Local governments are crucial to negotiations. Local governments, aware of their role, must be granted the responsibilities that they are keen to assume in the fight against climate change, so that they may support and uphold the commitments made by the states.

There is still some way to go, but a number of solutions and proposals exist. Real interest has been shown, and France can hope to count on its territories and elected officials. A process must be set in motion, both in France and throughout Europe. But, in order to persuade, it is necessary to demonstrate, reassure, and build links. The report offers 30 proposals on how to launch this mobilization towards a successful COP At a global level, the networks of elected officials, the strength of the French-speaking community and our diplomatic network are assets that we must exploit.

Things are changing in the United States, in China and in many other countries, but we must help support this movement. The authors believe that local governments are one of the keys to doing so! The development of CRFS is an expression of a new, more integrated approach to rural and urban development, which is now becoming a common theme, not only in food security discourse, but also in international discussions to do with local employment, rural livelihood development, resilience, climate change, trade and environmental sustainability.

IUFN together with partner institutions is now calling on others to join our efforts. A new collaborative mechanism, hosted at www. More information on the CFS Week available online. The Committee on World Food Security CFS was established in as an intergovernmental body to serve as a forum in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security including production and physical and economic access to food.

During the CFS underwent reform to make it more effective by including a wider group of stakeholders and increasing its ability to promote polices that reduce food insecurity. The vision of the reformed CFS is to be the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. It will work in a coordinated manner in support of country led processes that lead to food security. The framework of the reformed CFS broadens participation and aims to:.

Initial results of this survey will inform the Urban Age Conference in Delhi, India which will bring together a wide range of policy makers, academics and city experts to discuss the role of urban governance in shaping the future development of cities. The survey and its underlying research have three main objectives: This would potentially allow for a more fruitful exchange of good practice; and 3 Explore new and innovative ways for communicating and mapping urban governance for public dissemination, comparative policy and research analysis.

The success of this study depends on the level of participation of local governments in different countries and global regions. Its impact will certainly profit from the current global momentum related to urban governance related questions. The United Nations are currently debating the future priorities for the post world development agenda. As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, the urban agenda and urban governance are central issues in these discussions. The better the data gathered in the survey, the better the final results of the study. Thus, we would like to encourage the participation in this initiative of UCLG members and all local governments of the world.

Start the survey NOW. SITOPOLIS — Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed and open access journal focussing on urban and peri-urban agriculture and systems of urban and regional food provisioning in developing, transition and advanced economies. The journal intends to be a platform for cutting edge research on urban and peri-urban agricultural production for food and non-food e. It aims to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon urban and regional food production, processing, transport, trade, marketing and consumption and the social, economic, environmental, health and spatial contexts, relations and impacts of these food provisioning activities.

The journal addresses one of the contemporary grand societal challenges: This contemporary grand societal challenge requires a multi-disciplinary approach and hence SITIPOLIS welcomes contributions from a wide variety of disciplines, such as sociology, economics, marketing and consumer studies, gender studies, human and economic geography, urban and regional planning, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, political science, agronomy, soil science, water management, and public health studies.

The journal publishes original research as well as critical reviews. All articles published in SITOPOLIS, including data, graphics, and supplements, can be linked from external sources, scanned by search engines, re-used by text mining applications or websites, blogs, etc.

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BSP believes that open access publishing fosters the exchange of research results amongst scientists from different disciplines, thus facilitating interdisciplinary research. Open-access publishing also provides access to research results to researchers worldwide, including those from developing countries, and to an interested general public. We believe that open access is an enriching part of the scholarly communication process that can and should co-exist with other forms of communication and publication, such as society-based publishing and conferencing activities.

Please note that you should inquire with the original copyright holder usually the original publisher or authors , whether or not this material can be re-used. More info available here: Go vernment leadership and substantial investment in research are needed to shift global consumption habits towards eating patterns that are both healthy and sustainable, say academics, industry and NGOs representatives in a new report. Research is now needed in three key areas, say those involved in the report: How do we eat now, why, and what are the health and sustainability implications?

Experts say global trends in eating habits — including increasing meat consumption in many parts of the world — are detrimental both to the environment and to human health, and that a significant shift in consumption practices among high consuming populations is needed. The food system contributes to some per cent of human-generated greenhouse gas GHG emissions, is the leading cause of deforestation, land and soil degradation and biodiversity loss, accounts for 70 per cent of all human water use and is a major source of water pollution.

Livestock rearing, for meat and dairy products, carries a particularly high environmental cost, accounting for some 15 per cent of global GHG emissions. At the same time, current eating patterns, alongside other lifestyle factors, are putting an unsustainable burden on health services around the world. While meat and animal products can be an important source of nutrients for many, high and growing intakes are associated with a range of chronic diseases. But while these production-side measures are necessary, they are not by themselves sufficient.

To address the multiple environmental, health and societal challenges we face we also need to adopt eating patterns that have lower environmental impacts, deliver broader societal benefits, and support good health. The report invites collaboration with the FCRN in driving forward investment and research. But there is an urgent need for political leadership to set the direction of travel and to provide support. For a full list of participants please see Appendix 1 of the report. For more information see www.

Changing what we eat: The remaining 50 per cent is caused by the manufacture, transport, retailing, cooking and refrigeration of foods. This loss not only undermines food security but represents a waste of land, water and other inputs, as well as causing the generation of unnecessary emissions. Most of the growth in global demand for animal products will come from these growing populations and economies. Food Climate Research Network press release City Regions as Landscapes for People, Food and Nature is a new take on integrated landscapes that highlights important linkages between cities, peri-urban areas and rural areas.

Challenges like poverty, climate change, and growing demand for resources are issues faced across the urban rural continuum, and they all relate to food. With food and agriculture linking the ecosystems, economies, and public health of communities rural and urban, we must plan for food systems on a city region scale in order to meet 21st century challenges and reduce the risk they pose to food and nutrition security.

Source and more info available on the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature, an international initiative for Dialogue, Learning and Action website. The 10YFP is a global framework for action to enhance international cooperation on sustainable consumption and production SCP. More information on the 10YFP can be found at www. Sustainable food systems are key to ensuring sustainable development.

They have to ensure food security and nutrition and satisfy a growing demand for quantity, quality and diversity. At the same time current food production and consumption already exert a considerable impact on the environment and play a significant socio-economic role. Food systems are very diverse and their impacts also. A 10YFP SFSP needs to be relevant and adaptable to various local and regional specificities and take into account different levels of development. By leveraging international collaboration, networks and research, stimulating innovation, new project implementation and scaling up current initiatives, a global programme on sustainable food systems aims at providing an opportunity to achieve measurable improvements towards more sustainable consumption and production of food.

It is important to note that any policy, regulatory and voluntary instruments proposed by a 10YFP programme are implementable on a voluntary basis. Any stakeholder, from any country, can be involved in the design and implementation of this programme: Governments, private sector, civil society, researchers, UN agencies, financial institutions, and others. This survey is your opportunity to contribute to this effort. You will also have the opportunity to register your ongoing interest in being involved in the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme at the end of this questionnaire.

The survey is expected to take 20 minutes. You can save your results and return to the survey if you wish. If you would like to receive additional information, please contact: Responses to this survey are due by Wednesday, 23 July We are happy to announce you that with summer days, IUFN has engaged some profound changes for our website. The goal is twofold. On the other hand we are making our best to make the identified contents directly accessible through a more user-friendly design.

The Resource centre will also be re-shaped in order to provide a thematic approach of the challenges of sustainable food systems for cities of tomorrow. Benefitting from the flexibility of a web-based platform, we are working hard on all these solutions. You will progressively discover the results. We hope you will enjoy this new offer! From a more global perspective, you may have noticed, since few days our web is proposing only the English version. In order to be able to make our strategic projects move forward while they keep multiplying and to assure the website community management properly, we had to make a choice.

We decided then to put the French version of our web on stand-by for the moment. It will be re-developed later on, when our human and financial resources are stable. We would like to thank especially our French visitors for their comprehension. From now on, your wish to be part of an international community is fulfilled through the LinkedIN dedicated group and on iufn. You have expressed your interest in becoming part of an on-line community on sustainable food governance for city-regions.

We need new ideas, we need new approaches, we need new people! For that reason, this status will disappear and all our web content will be available directly. IUFN will make sure all your personal data will be destroyed. Join us at on LinkedIN! It will address a central question: Expo Milano seeks to be a collaborative Expo where the international community can actively collaborate and discuss on the main challenges facing humanity. These challenges involve not only food production and sustainable behaviors but also the application of advanced technologies and new political visions that will allow us to strike a new and better balance between our resources and our consumption.

In the tradition of previous universal expositions, Expo Milano aims to uphold the positive spirit of faith in human progress. During 6 months, participating nations, international organizations, businesses and civil society organizations from around the world, will display concrete solutions for ensuring the right to safe, healthy and sufficient food for all, guarantying environmental, social and economic sustainability of the food production chain, and safeguarding the culture of and taste for food.

Participants are asked to reflect on the two distinct human activities that characterize the transformation of nature: Food consumption refers to any human activity relating to feeding an individual in all its most various forms according to the countries, cultures or religions. Food production refers to all human activities geared to the creation of food and encompasses the technology of entire food production chains. With a great importance given to dietary education, innovation in the agro-food supply chain, and the relations between food and better lifestyles, or food and culture amongst other themes, urban food challenges are an underlying issue in the Expo.

Cities being the main place of food consumption but also a place to innovate in food production, they shall be a central theme in the debate on the future of food. Sharing with the Universal Expo the same faith in human progress and international cooperation, we look forward to the event! More than people attended the evening debate and the next day, the Open Forum has mobilized actors with varied and complementary profiles: Designers of the Art School of St.

Luke had the place scenography. Theatre skits punctuated the event. Designed as a true exercise of collective intelligence, the open forum gave birth to 25 workshops and allowed to come to the definition of structural projects. It was a precious and regenerating moment, allowing exchange and building around a common desire: Its official launch was an opportunity to assert its structuring role: A pilot project farm and a cooperative of agro-ecological activities are also emerging in Ourthe-Amel with Agroecoop.

Ultimately the project aims to train and assist agricultural entrepreneurs to settle. FAO Food, Agriculture and Cities, challenges of food and nutrition security, agriculture and ecosystem management in an urbanizing world is a ground document and a position paper published in October by FAO Food for the cities — a multi-disciplinary initiative.

FAO Food for cities Position paper. Food is fundamental to all human beings. The food system cities rely on to ensure their food supply is neither resilient, nor sustainable. There is an imperial need to design alternatives to current urban food systems. If cities are our future, then their development will only be made possible if we manage to meet the urban food challenge.

The challenge is huge, the issue complex. Sustainable food systems for cities call for systemic solutions and need a real commitment of local authorities. That is why, IUFN, the International Urban Food Network, is launching the first web-based interactive platform to foster cooperation and help actors come up with solutions towards more sustainable urban food systems — iufn.

Thanks to its interactive design, you will be able to:. Benefit from a dedicated social network to access expertise from an international expert community, let the others know what you are doing and get advice on your own projects. We keep talking about the transition to a new paradigm, about mutations of our societal model, about transformation of the human condition …. But what kind of change do we want exactly? Where is strategic vision, which sees far and is inclusive and unifying? Where is the vision of resilient territories, both sustainable and vibrant? It is probably time to slow down.

Time to give us the necessary means to think differently our future — build it instead of just expect it. It is probably time to get back to basics and renew the way we organize ourselves in society. IUFN, since its creation firmly believes that we all, individually and collectively, have the power to change things. Nothing is fixed, anything can happen, anything is possible. In this first month of this new year, we are pleased to offer you a new space for dialogue around what, like many others, we consider the challenge of tomorrow and a fundamental building block of sustainable territories — feeding our cities.

Secondly, we wish to gather and to make work together actors from the research community, local decision-makers committed to sustainable food governance of urban regions, but also businesses, civil society and innovative project developers. Because it is only together, through a shared desire to make our food system more sustainable, that we will find concrete solutions. The World Urban Campaign is the advocacy and partnership platform for cities in the twenty first century. Its goal is to place the urban agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by UN-Habitat and driven by a large number of committed partners from around the world.

It is meant to raise awareness about positive urban change by engaging citizens in voicing issues and solutions to change their urban communities, and to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well-planned cities. It is the catalyzing, action-planning, and monitoring organ of the Campaign, offering guidance on substantive and operational matters, and to serve as an advisory body to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. Nicholas You was elected as the Chair of the Steering Committee.

Both were re-elected at the eighth session of the Steering Committee held in Naples, Italy on 2 September To view Steering Committee Meeting reports and documents, please see the Resources page. Members of the Steering Committee also form working groups around areas and ideas that the Campaign would like to advance. These working groups convene on an ad hoc basis, typically corresponding with other large events and conferences. Accessible and pro-poor land, infrastructure, services, mobility and housing;.

Socially inclusive, gender sensitive, healthy and safe development;. Environmentally sound and carbon-efficient built environment;. Vibrant and competitive local economies promoting decent work and livelihoods;. Assurance of non-discrimination and equal rights to the city; and. Empowering cities and communities to plan for and effectively manage adversity and change.

Twenty years later, in in Istanbul, Habitat II served as the place of negotiation on future policies for sustainable urban development. The Habitat III conference will address sustainable urbanisation and the future of urban spaces. It will also serve as an opportunity to assess the state of our cities, to develop solutions, and to revisit our shared urban future. Agriculture and food systems are at the centre of the debates around post development goals and targets. Hunger and food insecurity remain major development priorities, made worse by climate change, price volatility in globalised food markets and over-consumption in wealthy countries.

Post goals and agendas need to support a transformation of food systems to make them more productive, environmentally sustainable and resilient while preserving and enhancing these livelihood benefits. The agroecological and agroindustrial technical solutions to that challenge are well advanced, but the systemic political, economic and social barriers to change are substantial and under-appreciated. In this briefing, IIED highlights following policy pointers concerning food security and sustainable food systems: The governance of food systems is profoundly undemocratic, mostly involving unilateral decisions of large corporations, and government and international agency policies and investments that are in large part shaped by the interests and priorities of these powerful actors.

Sustainable, equitable and fair food systems require more participatory forms of governance. Examples of participatory food system governance are springing up at the local level worldwide, led by networks of farmer associations, NGOs and local governments. The challenge is to scale up participatory governance institutions so that they equitably represent the full range of stakeholders, including those who are not directly engaged in agriculture and food production.

As this report shows, the transition has been a long and winding road with these countries now in various phases of completing their reforms. The European transitional nations are a varied group of countries. Domestic populations in ranged from The Foundation indeed has great experience in the field of scientific research, especially on food. The Foundation has launched a large variety of actions on the topic of food, involving social, economic, and institutional stakeholders, as well as researchers.

The municipality and the Foundation therefore decided to create a citizen food policy , based on a model already successful elsewhere in the world. Food Policies appeared in the United States in the s. These initiatives aim at improving the management of the food chain food production, distribution, and consumption , along with all the activities influencing this chain. Starting now, this will be also done in Milan, engaging a process for the next five years. Recent surveys reveal that the new hunger geography, or rather the lack of healthy food, is creating boarders between urban areas.

Still today, too many people suffer from malnutrition and eating disorders. As for Kyoto, better than Kyoto: For that occasion, I will ask the mayors from all around the world present in Milan, to sign an international pact that will commit their city to build food systems based on sustainability and social justice. This is linked to the implications of civil society in public policies. We work on these topics, not as a sponsor offering economic resources, but as operators entering at the heart of issues, understanding them and offering our own contribution to solve and improve things.

Considering the importance of these topics, Milan Food Policy will be, among other things, the tool for:. The citizen food policy will contribute to defining the organic framework of all these elements, determining the key actions to enforce it, promoting an active participation of the population and of all those living in or working in the city, in order to gather a diversity of resources ideas, skills, investments, etc.

Expo must leave a tangible legacy to Milan, inspiring those who manage the city as well as its habitants to engage actions for a better future. The high point will then be the organization of an international event for the launch of the Milan food policy and of the International Pact, which will take place during the Expo , with the presence of mayors from all around the world. For more information, please visit the dedicated website: However, there is a pressing need to help bring this knowledge together and increase political awareness in order to maximize the potential presented by various international policy processes leading up to the Habitat III summit in e.

If this is not done then an important chance to level-the-playing field for the evolution of more democratic and sustainable food systems will have been missed, alongside the opportunity to advance a more systems-based and integrated approach to rural and urban development by integrating agriculture and food concerns to the sustainable urbanisation agenda. A specific website — www. We are now calling on others to join our efforts.

Sign the Call for Global Action at www. Market-driven modernization, basic and applied agricultural research, and subsidies have led agriculture to remarkable progress in two generations. Food systems have become more commercial, more global, and more complex. But achievements in terms of variety, quality, and availability of food products have been accompanied by declining localization and tradition, moving away from traditional production systems to commodity approaches aiming to maximize production of a limited number of species to supply mass distribution.

Agriculture policies and programmes have concentrated on value chains, and monocultures of commodities such as soybeans, maize and palm oil have replaced what was once a diversity of food crops. At present, of more than 50, edible plant species in the world, only a few hundred contribute significantly to food supply and just a few crops dominate the energy supply.

While the benefits of an increasingly globalized food system are apparent, the risks are increasingly apparent as well. Global commercialization provides a great variety of food and beverages to most people — and the affordability of modern diets, measured by cost per unit of energy, or kilocalorie, is indeed increasing -, but it offers more products in processed and packaged forms containing a wide array of ingredients, including salt, sweeteners, and oils. Consumption of excess amounts of those ingredients and products, combined with other lifestyle changes, generates adverse health outcomes.

People around the world are indeed consuming more calories but their health is worsening. Changing dietary patterns and lifestyles—spurred by urbanization, the liberalization of markets, demographic shifts, and omnipresent marketing— have contributed to increased prevalence of overweight and the chronic diseases that accompany it. According to the Report of the Secretary-General on Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases NCDs — type 2 diabetes mellitus, cancer, and obesity — kill more people every year than any other cause of death.

Urbanization is one of the key drivers of change in the world today, and nutrition is no exception. It will almost double to more than 6 billion by Urban food supply is usually more connected to the outside market than to locally sourced supply. Although a wider variety of both local and imported food products is available year round in cities, access to food and other basic needs essentially depends on purchasing power.

The food consumed in urban areas is not necessarily of better nutritional quality, and food safety is a growing concern in many urban environments. More jobs and social services can also be found in urban areas but not everyone is able to benefit equally. People who move to cities must adopt new methods of acquiring, preparing and eating food. Many city-dwellers have limited time for shopping and cooking and they rely increasingly on processed and convenience foods, including street foods. Poor shelter, lack of sanitation and hygiene, and insufficient social services in slum areas further compound the problems of the poor.

The urban dimension of malnutrition has received so far limited specific attention, although under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies can still be found in most, if not all, cities. Excessive intake of energy, coupled with limited physical activity, lead to rising problems of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. These problems are increasingly found among the poorer sectors of society, where it is not uncommon to find overweight and obese adults living with underweight children, amid widespread micronutrient deficiencies. Policy-makers must move beyond the prevailing commodity approach and start thinking of whole diets and food systems, and seek to remove major obstacles to sustainable nutrition, such as policies that subsidize harmful practices expansion of the agro-industrial model, including the production of biofuels and socio-economic inequity including gender discrimination and violation of human rights.

In the decades to come, the food and agriculture system will need to change to meet the related challenges of rising demand, access and affordability of the variety of safe foods required for healthy diets, in a context of increased frequency of natural disasters, shifting climate patterns, and growing resource scarcity, particularly of arable land and water. But this change can only happen of we adopt a different perspective and focus on demand i. Failures in development projects are usually due to over-simplification and focus on a specific ministry. We need a holistic approach. It is time to move from linear to systemic thinking and aim for nutrition needs rather than productivity.

The multi-functional role of agriculture for nutrition and health, cultural diversity, incomes, resilience to climate change… must be acknowledged and encouraged. The way people behave and consume eventually drives food systems, and is ultimately a major determinant of production and ecosystem management.

Consumers and citizens in urban areas are able through their daily purchases, and through policy and procurement by agencies of local authorities, to make a significant impact on the food system and improve the livelihoods of both rural and urban people. They therefore have a key role to play in the transformation of agriculture and food systems, and can generate a WIN-WIN dynamic which would improve both health and environmental management. Moderating meat consumption would for example decrease greenhouse gas emissions as well saturated fat intake, cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer.

Existing dietary guidelines should therefore be updated into sustainable dietary guidelines as the basis for agriculture and food security policies and programmes, as well as consumer information. Nutrition is an ecosystem service and needs to be considered as such along with other ecosystem services such as water and clean air.

An agriculture anchored in basic ecological principles and respectful of its footprint can provide an alternative in terms of crop and animal production, employment, and use of natural resources energy, land, water and forests. Biodiversity offers a wealth of untapped potential for livelihoods, health, nutrition and environments and there is much to learn from traditional and local food systems in terms of sustainability. Protection and management of biodiversity plants, including trees, and animals is therefore key to locally appropriate diets, sustainable food systems and resilient environments.

In order to be sustainable, diets must be healthy, compatible with sustainable management of natural resources and social equity. They should therefore benefit both producers and consumers rather than pitch them against each other. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable; nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimizing natural and human resources.

Given the impact of food and agriculture systems on nutrition and health, it comes as no suprise that health system professionals are shifting towards a food system perspective. Urban food policy and planning efforts are increasingly addressing obesity and NCDs at local level. There is no good health without good nutrition, and healthy diets depend on agriculture. Yet public agriculture and health agencies interact little, and are guided by distinct and sometimes contradictory objectives. Agriculture agencies and ministries aim for greater food and feed production with available resources and technology, while health ministries focus on disease control.

Nutrition objectives and outcomes play a role in both agencies but are often secondary to the main political and technical concerns in those two sectors. Providing healthier foods to urban as well as rural populations will require a reorientation of food systems and policies, from production-driven to demand-driven. Consumers, and consumer associations, have a key role to play through reorienting demand and reporting on the impact of supply policies.

Urban decision makers can help create a more diversified food supply and there is increasing awareness and experience in food system planning among local governments, civil society and the private sector. There is a wealth of innovative and promising solutions at local level to guide them. Policy and programmes linking food and nutrition security with economic development, biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation can and must become more integrated.

Territorial planning based on agroecological zoning can help us find answers and learn together. Local authorities are key players in this context, however, urban actors have often not considered the food system an important issue when designing, planning and managing cities. Many became aware of the issue in , when food prices peaked. More than 20 countries around the world experienced food riots in urban areas.

Nutrition and sustainability must be central in our efforts to reduce poverty and hunger. These issues are complex and need a holistic, human-centered approach. It will also allow municipalities to broaden their strategies and contribute to the post agenda. A diverse, nutritious and safe diet offers the opportunity for increased resilience, sustainability, and advances in human health, nutrition, productivity and livelihoods.

Health is a strong motivating factor for people to change their behavior. There are therefore big opportunities for triple wins of health, environment and development.

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Climate change is without a doubt the first international issue to require absolute solidarity. Its effects naturally transcend borders, whatever their nature, while its treatment continues to be countered by conflicts of interest, economic lobbies and governmental caution. It is also a question of democracy. First and foremost, however, the challenge is one that concerns our social model, our consumption, our lifestyles and work habits, and the new points of reference that, today, must define the framework of our development and our liberation.

Local governments, aware of their role, must be granted the responsibilities that they are keen to assume in the fight against climate change, so that they may support and uphold the commitments made by the states. There is still some way to go, but a number of solutions and proposals exist. Real interest has been shown, and France can hope to count on its territories and elected officials.

A process must be set in motion, both in France and throughout Europe. But, in order to persuade, it is necessary to demonstrate, reassure, and build links. The report offers 30 proposals on how to launch this mobilization towards a successful COP At a global level, the networks of elected officials, the strength of the French-speaking community and our diplomatic network are assets that we must exploit. Things are changing in the United States, in China and in many other countries, but we must help support this movement. The authors believe that local governments are one of the keys to doing so!

The development of CRFS is an expression of a new, more integrated approach to rural and urban development, which is now becoming a common theme, not only in food security discourse, but also in international discussions to do with local employment, rural livelihood development, resilience, climate change, trade and environmental sustainability. IUFN together with partner institutions is now calling on others to join our efforts.

A new collaborative mechanism, hosted at www. More information on the CFS Week available online. The Committee on World Food Security CFS was established in as an intergovernmental body to serve as a forum in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security including production and physical and economic access to food. During the CFS underwent reform to make it more effective by including a wider group of stakeholders and increasing its ability to promote polices that reduce food insecurity.

The vision of the reformed CFS is to be the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. It will work in a coordinated manner in support of country led processes that lead to food security. The framework of the reformed CFS broadens participation and aims to:.

As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, the urban agenda and urban governance are central issues in these discussions. The better the data gathered in the survey, the better the final results of the study. Thus, we would like to encourage the participation in this initiative of UCLG members and all local governments of the world.

Research is now needed in three key areas, say those involved in the report: How do we eat now, why, and what are the health and sustainability implications? Experts say global trends in eating habits — including increasing meat consumption in many parts of the world — are detrimental both to the environment and to human health, and that a significant shift in consumption practices among high consuming populations is needed.

The food system contributes to some per cent of human-generated greenhouse gas GHG emissions, is the leading cause of deforestation, land and soil degradation and biodiversity loss, accounts for 70 per cent of all human water use and is a major source of water pollution.

This loss not only undermines food security but represents a waste of land, water and other inputs, as well as causing the generation of unnecessary emissions. Most of the growth in global demand for animal products will come from these growing populations and economies. Food Climate Research Network press release City Regions as Landscapes for People, Food and Nature is a new take on integrated landscapes that highlights important linkages between cities, peri-urban areas and rural areas. Challenges like poverty, climate change, and growing demand for resources are issues faced across the urban rural continuum, and they all relate to food.

With food and agriculture linking the ecosystems, economies, and public health of communities rural and urban, we must plan for food systems on a city region scale in order to meet 21st century challenges and reduce the risk they pose to food and nutrition security. Source and more info available on the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature, an international initiative for Dialogue, Learning and Action website. French regions committed to the development of regional food systems during the conference organized by the Brittany region and association of French regions ARF on July 4th , in Rennes.

Offering an alternative to agro-food industry and mass consumption, regional food systems aim at re-valuing the products from short supply-chains, and favoring family farming, small enterprises and alternative supply chains. They limit environmental impact and waste along the food chain. The conference in Rennes, which gathered around elected representatives, civil servants and experts, presented innovative practices of given territories and international cooperation opportunities between the North and the South.

Through the Declaration, the French regions call for the creation of a stronger link between regional policies, reinforced by the recent transfer of management from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development EAFRD , and the national agricultural policy. They commit to develop synergies taking into account the characteristics of regional systems in creating regional rural development programs.

The 10YFP is a global framework for action to enhance international cooperation on sustainable consumption and production SCP. More information on the 10YFP can be found at www. Sustainable food systems are key to ensuring sustainable development. They have to ensure food security and nutrition and satisfy a growing demand for quantity, quality and diversity. At the same time current food production and consumption already exert a considerable impact on the environment and play a significant socio-economic role. Food systems are very diverse and their impacts also.

A 10YFP SFSP needs to be relevant and adaptable to various local and regional specificities and take into account different levels of development. By leveraging international collaboration, networks and research, stimulating innovation, new project implementation and scaling up current initiatives, a global programme on sustainable food systems aims at providing an opportunity to achieve measurable improvements towards more sustainable consumption and production of food.

This survey is your opportunity to contribute to this effort. You will also have the opportunity to register your ongoing interest in being involved in the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme at the end of this questionnaire. The survey is expected to take 20 minutes. You can save your results and return to the survey if you wish. If you would like to receive additional information, please contact: Responses to this survey are due by Wednesday, 23 July IPES-Food initiative addresses evidence-based advocacy on sustainable food systems and diets.

This group of high-level scientists aims to provide the policy makers, the private sector and the public at large with the evidence to guide a transition towards sustainable food systems and diets. The food challenge requires that today modes of production, supply chain and consumption are rethought and reworked. This cannot be allowed to emerge slowly.

It must be actively pushed and promoted.

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The evidence for the need to significantly change our food systems and diets is increasingly strong. As declared by Prof. Food systems must be reshaped with a view to ensuring social equity and the reduction of rural poverty, protecting our resource base and delivering better health outcomes.

Multidisciplinary research is urgently needed to promote adequate solutions at policy and global levels. And it must include an analysis of consumer behaviour, to encourage sustainable consumption as an integral part of food systems reform. A long-term outlook at least 5 years is particularly important for such a complex, comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach that has not yet been widely recognized or adopted.

IPES-Food will be composed of between 25 and 30 members, appointed for their expertise and commitment to the issue, who contribute in their personal capacity, independently from their organization. Olivier De Schutter, U. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, until 30th May. The members will cover a broad range of disciplines with complementary expertise spanning the entire breath and complexity of food systems. Other members will be actors on the ground representatives of consumer associations, of the civil society… , experts in global prospective studies and creative thinkers with the ability to devise innovative ways to convey messages.

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The instigators of both IPES-Food and EAT Initiative realized that bringing about the necessary policy reforms, innovations and behavior changes to achieve sustainable food systems is a monumental task that cannot be achieved by any organization or initiative alone. Sharing the same concerns and overall aims, they have decided to join forces and plan their initiatives in a closely coordinated way, building on their respective strengths, to create synergies and complement each other.

Driven by its collaborative spirit, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation plans to bring into the initiative additional funding and operating partners foundations, scientific organizations, intergovernmental bodies and leading advocacy organizations such as NGOs to further strengthen the initiative and bolster its capacity to achieve its ambitious goal. The fact remains, however, that the world currently lacks a global scientific advisory body that looks at sustainable food systems in all their complexity.

The Premio Daniel Carasso: More than just an award, the Premio is designed to promote innovative, cross-disciplinary research into food systems. The 2 nd edition of the Premio Daniel Carasso was launched on April the 1 st , Applications may be submitted till June 30 th , For more information,visit the official web site: The Foundation is very much a family organization.

On its Executive Committee sit its president, Marina Nahmias, daughter of Daniel and Nina Carasso, her family and individuals with different expertise. Under the aegis of the Fondation de France, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation supports sustainable food systems and art projects. More information available on: We are happy to announce you that with summer days, IUFN has engaged some profound changes for our website. The goal is twofold. On the other hand we are making our best to make the identified contents directly accessible through a more user-friendly design.

In order to be able to make our strategic projects move forward while they keep multiplying and to assure the website community management properly, we had to make a choice. We decided then to put the French version of our web on stand-by for the moment. It will be re-developed later on, when our human and financial resources are stable.

We would like to thank especially our French visitors for their comprehension. From now on, your wish to be part of an international community is fulfilled through the LinkedIN dedicated group and on iufn. You have expressed your interest in becoming part of an on-line community on sustainable food governance for city-regions.

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Getting participants off the beaten tracks, opening their minds to new perspectives, to new collaborations. Creating a space to imagine together the solutions to preserve land for food around cities: Gathering more than people over 2 days researchers, local authorities, national decision-makers, associations, foundations, businesses, farmers, informed citizens, etc , the event was a succession of creative moments where plenty of ideas were exchanged. First of all, an Open Forum with 15 discussion groups around a key question: Then, a buzzing day at the heart of UNESCO with 11 co-design workshops addressing particular challenges of this complex question, featuring invited expert speakers.

Its standards and requirements aim to ensure a high level of food safety and nutrition within an efficient, competitive, sustainable and innovative global market. However, a series of emerging challenges and risks could put the currently successful European food system under severe stress. These challenges include demographic imbalances, climate change, resource and energy scarcity, slowing agricultural productivity, increasing concentration of the supply chain, price volatility, changing diet trends and the emergence of anti-microbial resistant strands. The project aims to provide insight and guidance for future policy-making and the research which underpins EU policy in this area by identifying the:.

Download the report here. Urbact is a European exchange and learning program financed by the European Union and the member States promoting sustainable urban development. It enables cities to work together to develop solutions to major urban challenges, by coordinating exchange and learning between cities and by providing support and funding for project operations. It gathers cities, 29 countries and 7, active participants.

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Urbact III is the third Urbact program to be launched and will be delivered across the programming period under the patronage of France. It is proposed that Urbact III will continue its work of promoting the sharing of knowledge and good practice between cities and other levels of government while trying to go further. Urbact wants to encourage cities to develop a strategy of sustainable urban development with all the relevant stakeholders of a given territory.

For this third program, Urbact III proposes to support knowledge access but also concrete learning exchanges between cities, in order to encourage the development and implementation of integrated urban policies in European cities.

By supporting dialogue between local elected officials, technicians and other urban policy stakeholders across Europe, and by giving them access to the knowledge and methods that allow to think and to build the sustainable city, Urbact III will contribute to the Europe goals. Indeed, the program feeds and encourages the development of stronger and more vibrant European cities and helps tackle a range of emerging urban issues linked to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth the three Europe priorities.

Several stakeholders, including IUFN, have been invited to give their opinion about this proposition of program, and the consultation continues online. More information on Urbact III is available here. It will address a central question: Those to be highlighted include: Urbanization is also identified as one of the major challenges. Indeed, urbanization has direct impact on diet and eating habits and consequently on our health.

As far as environment is concerned,. A significant decline in hunger and malnutrition has been achieved through an improved access to affordable, diverse and enjoyable food for local populations. But according to FCRN, the key challenges for policy makers still need to be addressed.

They include environmental pollution and degradation, food safety concerns and the rising prevalence of obesity and chronic diseases. In such a huge, diverse and rapidly transforming country as China, this requires both integrated approaches but also differentiated local policies that are sensitive to social, economic and environmental contexts and scales. The report also emphasizes the potential of international collaboration to find solutions to issues that are not only faced by China.

The full report is available here. More information on the Food Climate Research Network is available here. Others have noted that the sourcing of food for the public plate can support local and regional agriculture. At the same time, environmentalists have raised concerns about the handling of waste from meals, and about the carbon footprint and other environmental implications of urban food procurement practices.

Institutional meals are an important defense against hunger, a problem that continues to disrupt the lives and health of too many New Yorkers. Thus institutional food is at the intersection of health, economic development, environmental protection, and social justice. To do so, the interdisciplinary working group analyzed the basic parameters of meal provision in public schools, child care and senior citizen programs, homeless shelters, jails, hospitals, and other settings.

It then identified challenges, highlighted emerging solutions and provided recommendations for how the City of New York can continue to improve the nutritional quality and economic and environmental impact of the meals served not just in the ten agencies studied but for all New Yorkers. The report explores the complex mix of institutional meals served by the City of New York. In the last seven years, since the establishment of the Office of the Food Policy Coordinator, NYC has made substantial progress in improving its institutional food programs and weaving them into a system that can achieve health, economic, environmental and social justice goals.

A great example to learn from! The full report, executive summary and supplement are available here. A Guide to Institutional Meals. Wealthy capital cities vary greatly in their dependence on the global food market. The Australian capital Canberra produces the majority of its most common food in its regional hinterland, while Tokyo primarily ensures its food security through import.

The Copenhagen hinterland produces less than half of the consumption of the most common foods. For the first time, researchers have mapped the food systems of these three capital cities, an essential insight for future food security if population growth, climate change and political instability will affect the open market. The study was conducted by several partners in the International Alliance of Research Universities IARU , an alliance addressing the grand challenges facing humanity, with a particular focus on climate change and sustainability.

Porter, Professor of Plant and Environmental Science from the University of Copenhagen, who is leading author on the study recently published online in the journal Global Food Security. The three capital cities and accompanying capital regions or territories have populations that range over two orders of magnitude, situated within different global, climatic and physical locations and socio-economic contexts.

Although the analysis is not predictive or prescriptive, it is intended to provide a better understanding of the effects of a globally coupled food system. The research shows that higher farmland yields have influenced the cities self-provisioning over the past 40 years, but that, overall, the ability of cities to feed themselves is unlikely to keep pace with increasing population.

The study has exclusively focused on the historical and current production and not considered whether changes in land management practices can increase productivity further or whether consumers are willing to limit their intake to local seasonally available goods. It did not include citizen-based production from allotments, urban gardens etc.

The full study is available here. Expo Milano seeks to be a collaborative Expo where the international community can actively collaborate and discuss on the main challenges facing humanity.