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Book (stand-alone)Technical studyBuilding resilience of city region food systems: a comparative study of eleven city perspectives 2024
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No results found.In recent years, local governments have increasingly focused on food security and sustainability due to the recognized unsustainability of current food systems. Support from city networks, academics, and international organizations has led to numerous projects and initiatives aimed at raising awareness and promoting concrete actions. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for resilient food systems, prompting more cities to develop response strategies.This study investigates how food system actors perceive recent shocks, identifies collective actions and public policies, and offers insights for enhancing food system resilience. It presents findings on shocks and impacts, public policies, and recommended next steps, concluding with key questions and hypotheses for future research on resilient city region food systems. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical studyStrengthening the resilience of city region food systems: A literature review following the COVID-19 pandemic 2024
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No results found.To enhance the resilience of food systems, it is essential to understand the long-term impacts of recent global shocks and stresses and extract key lessons learned. Shifts in consumption patterns and purchasing power are driving gradual adaptations and transformations within food systems, making these changes difficult to fully comprehend. Given this complexity, it is crucial to analyse how various stakeholders respond to these shocks and the resulting implications for the resilience and sustainability of food systems. This literature review seeks to clarify the concept of resilience in the context of city region food systems (CRFS). It highlights key principles that could strengthen CRFS resilience and focuses on the resilience capacities within these systems, examining the attributes needed to develop and support these capacities. By using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, the report explores the impacts, individual responses, and collective actions that reveal the complexities of CRFS. It also synthesizes a range of recommendations from the literature to improve food system resilience. Finally, it distills key lessons from the literature review and suggests a path forward.This report does not aim to exhaustively review the extensive and growing body of literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems, nor does it cover all aspects of food system resilience. Instead, it offers a targeted perspective on how the pandemic has influenced current thinking around food system resilience. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureFostering resilience and sustainability of the Melbourne city region food system 2024
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No results found.In recent years, global shocks such as climate events, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have significantly disrupted food systems worldwide, compounding existing stresses and challenges. In response to these disruptions, FAO has conducted a comprehensive global study that targets all food system stakeholders, including local governments.For this study, in-depth case studies were conducted in 11 cities across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to provide detailed insights into how food system actors respond to multiple shocks and stresses. Through interviews and focus groups, the case studies capture diverse perspectives and explore the complexities of building resilience in specific contexts. This publication highlights the unique approach of resilience-building efforts in Melbourne, Australia.
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all
2021In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis of their trends. Altogether, the report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation.To understand how hunger and malnutrition have reached these critical levels, this report draws on the analyses of the past four editions, which have produced a vast, evidence-based body of knowledge of the major drivers behind the recent changes in food security and nutrition. These drivers, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, include conflicts, climate variability and extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns – all exacerbated by the underlying causes of poverty and very high and persistent levels of inequality. In addition, millions of people around the world suffer from food insecurity and different forms of malnutrition because they cannot afford the cost of healthy diets. From a synthesized understanding of this knowledge, updates and additional analyses are generated to create a holistic view of the combined effects of these drivers, both on each other and on food systems, and how they negatively affect food security and nutrition around the world.In turn, the evidence informs an in-depth look at how to move from silo solutions to integrated food systems solutions. In this regard, the report proposes transformative pathways that specifically address the challenges posed by the major drivers, also highlighting the types of policy and investment portfolios required to transform food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all. The report observes that, while the pandemic has caused major setbacks, there is much to be learned from the vulnerabilities and inequalities it has laid bare. If taken to heart, these new insights and wisdom can help get the world back on track towards the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookFood loss analysis: causes and solutions – The Republic of Uganda. Beans, maize, and sunflower studies 2019
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No results found.This report illustrates the food loss assessment studies undertaken along the maize, sunflower and beans supply chains in Uganda in 2015-16 and 2016-17. They aimed to identify the critical loss points in the selected supply chains, the key stages at which food losses occur, why they occur, the extent and impact of food losses and the economic, social and environmental implications of the food losses. Furthermore, these studies also evaluated the feasibility of potential interventions to reduce food losses and waste. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
2023This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that the intensification and interaction of conflict, climate extremes and economic slowdowns and downturns, combined with highly unaffordable nutritious foods and growing inequality, are pushing us off track to meet the SDG 2 targets. However, other important megatrends must also be factored into the analysis to fully understand the challenges and opportunities for meeting the SDG 2 targets. One such megatrend, and the focus of this year’s report, is urbanization. New evidence shows that food purchases in some countries are no longer high only among urban households but also among rural households. Consumption of highly processed foods is also increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries. These changes are affecting people’s food security and nutrition in ways that differ depending on where they live across the rural–urban continuum. This timely and relevant theme is aligned with the United Nations General Assembly-endorsed New Urban Agenda, and the report provides recommendations on the policies, investments and actions needed to address the challenges of agrifood systems transformation under urbanization and to enable opportunities for ensuring access to affordable healthy diets for everyone.