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Book (stand-alone)FAO Green Cities Initiative – Green cities action programme: building back better 2020
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No results found.The main objective of the action programme and of the “FAO Green Cities Initiative” is to increase people’s wellbeing through better availability of and access to products and services provided by urban and peri‐urban forestry, agriculture and food systems. This action plans describes how FAO's Green Cities initiative will improve the livelihoods and well-being of urban and peri-urban populations of 1000 cities around the world by 2030, improving the urban environment, strengthening urban-rural linkages, the resilience of urban populations to external shocks and contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation while ensuring access to healthy diets from sustainable systems. The plan describes ways in which local governments and communities will have the capacity to develop and implement context-specific strategies, actions and investment plans for the integrated design and management of resilient and sustainable multifunctional green infrastructure and food systems to ensure that green technologies, innovation and investments are scaled up. -
Book (series)Variations in the subnational cost and affordability of a healthy diet for selected countries in Africa
Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
2023Also available in:
No results found.This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 presents an innovative analysis of within-country variability of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoAHD). The study uses an innovative spatial perspective by analysing the changes along the urban–rural catchment areas (URCA) and using the Living Standards Measurement Studies (LSMS) of 11 African countries. The results show that the cost of a healthy diet in peri-urban areas is lower than it is in urban areas, but the percentage of the population unable to afford a healthy diet is always higher in the surroundings of urban centres. The gap is particularly large between small cities and their surrounding areas, and the share of population unable to secure a healthy diet is disproportionally high in the more remote rural areas. The paper also investigates three methodological issues that were encountered during the analysis to provide evidence on the validity of the FAO Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) methodology for the estimation of subnational cost and affordability of a healthy diet. -
MeetingOptimizing Trees and Forests for Healthy Cities: Developing Guidelines for Decision and Policy Makers
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No results found.Since January 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been spearheading the initiative for the production of “Guidelines for Policy and Decision Making: Promoting Urban and Peri-‐urban Forestry”. These guidelines are being prepared at the global and regional levels through a consultative process. The primary audiences for this document are policy and decision makers holding an authority positions and a strategic influence in city administration, civil society , business or politics. As a first step in the guidelines development process, and in order to deliberate upon regional issues and challenges relevant to UPF, FAO invited experts from various parts of the Asia-‐Pacific region to New Delhi (India). Coming from different disciplines and having different professional backgrounds, these experts represented a wide cross section of key influencers in UPF policy and decision making. Apart from generating useful insights and inputs for the “Guidelines for Policy and Decision Making: Promoting Urban and Peri-‐urban Forestry”, the meeting also paved the way for a sustained and structured dialogue on UPF in the Asia-‐Pacific region. It is hoped that the dialogue initiated by FAO at New Delhi will result in the emergence of new networks and institutional collaborations that will help urban and peri-‐urban forests and trees achieve their potential and ensure healthy and sustainable urban habitats across the Asia-‐Pacific region. The meeting wa s held within the framework of the International Congress on Urban Green Spaces (5–7 March 2012), co-‐organized by the Center for Urban Green Spaces (CUGS), Aravali Foundation for Education (AFE), New Delhi (India), and the Department of Environment, Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, in association with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India. The main objective of this meeting was to invite delegates to give their inputs on the regional draft version of the document “Towards Guidelines for Policy and Decision making: Promoting Urban and Peri-‐urban Forestry”, in order to support its finalization. The meeting also aimed to achieve a better understanding of the overall institutional, policy and networking framework on UPF; to develop strategic advice to raise the profile of forests and trees on the national, regional and global urban agendas; and to define strategic opportunities for implementing adaptable and efficient UPF programmes in the Asia-‐Pacific region.
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