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The publication “Food 2030-Pathways for action” guides future policy reflections relevant to Horizon Europe, the Farm to Fork strategy and European Green Deal. The publication presents 10...

Highlights: Chapter 2 of the book focuses on strengthening Africa’s food systems. It consists in a couple of essays on: Food security in Africa: current efforts...

Highlights: This article identifies six types of urban food chains in the global South: 1) subsistence/non-market; 2) short relational; 3) long relational; 4) value-oriented...

The 2022 report builds upon and complements the 2021 report. The first report includes topics ranging from food systems to gender and water that are not repeated here...

Highlights We use rural & urban level representative phone survey data from 5 African countries. Impacts of COVID-19 were highly correlated...

Prepared for the 15th meeting of System Council held on March 8-9, 2022, this report proposes an external review of the second set of 12 CGIAR Initiatives proposals. The...

Growing urbanisation in Africa is accompanied by rapid changes in food environments, with potential shifts towards unhealthy food/beverage consumption, including in socio-economically disadvantaged populations. This study investigated...

This paper is concerned with: (i) challenges to food systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America caused by urban development, (ii) how existing food systems respond...

This study developed, validated, and evaluated a framework of factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban African food environments, to inform research prioritisation and intervention development in Africa. A multi-component...

This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers' food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical...