Highlights: Urban food insecurity is on the rise, necessitating a multifaceted strategy. Disparities in food security levels are due to urbanization and socioeconomic inequalities. Low urban class...
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A growing body of literature discusses food insecurity in rural and urban contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Peri-urban food insecurity and coping strategies remain an understudied topic...
Urban expansion often takes place on the most productive agricultural lands, affecting how the remaining agricultural land is used. Evidence on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices...
Last October, the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) signed its next framework contract for production of the Urban Atlas product suite. Urban Atlas is CLMS’...
Highlights: Women play a critical role in securing and maintaining household food security. Infrastructural development and agriculture compete for land. Farmers are using ingenious methods...
Highlights: Currently, urbanization is a prominent challenge in Ethiopia. It decreases agricultural land, dumps huge waste in the environment, and reduces crop productivity. The result will be...
Scenario Exploration System that promotes collaboration for sustainable urban planning.
This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 discusses the dynamics and drivers of urbanization, the associated changes in agrifood systems and the corresponding risks and opportunities to ensuring...
Highlights: There is utility in combining large datasets on food systems for nutrition and health policy in LMICs. Decades of Gambian food system data show adequate gross...
Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the Soil Day - 5 December 2023