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City Region Food Systems and Food Waste Management

Year of publication 2017

Pages 186 p.

Author RUAF, FAO, GIZ

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical book

ISBN 978-92-5-109453-2

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This book describes the results of 13 case studies on city region food systems and food waste management. It provides lessons learned on the institutionalisation of city region food policies and programmes; provisioning of national and legal frameworks embedding city region food systems in broader legislation, on strengthening of coordination and collaboration across horizontal and vertical government levels, and on design of specific programmes and policies for sustainable city region food sys tems.

Language English

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