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Book (stand-alone)Assessment and planning of the Toronto City Region Food System - Synthesis report 2018
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No results found.More than 80 percent Canadians live in cities with almost one-quarter of country’s total population living in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) area. The GGH stretches in a curve around the western side of Lake Ontario with the City of Toronto occupying the northern side of the horseshoe. The GGH is an area of high potential food production as well as rapid population growth creating a mix of difficult to reconcile, opposing demands. For example, the need for housing and residential infrastructure conflicts directly with the need to preserve prime agricultural lands. Food insecurity is another significant challenge for Toronto and its surrounding areas as underscored in recent initiatives. The City of Toronto’s ‘Neighbourhood Equity Index’ shows some communities facing difficulties accessing healthy food. In considering the links between rural and urban areas, the ‘Cultivating Food Connections’ study determined that expenditures are not going to local farmers or local economies with the average journey for food from farm to table in 2015 estimated at 4 497 kilometres. It was in this context that the vision for a sustainable city region food system in Toronto was defined as: Healthy food for all, sourced as regionally as possible, and as sustainably produced, processed, packaged, and distributed as possible. -
Policy briefFood Security and Nutrition in City Region Food System Planning - Sri Lanka
COLOMBO (SRI LANKA) Policy brief
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No results found.Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is located in the center of Kandy-Colombo-Galle urbanization belt, where it forms the largest Local Authority (LA) of Sri Lanka and one of the oldest in South Asia, established in 1865. Together with 12 other LAs, it forms part of the Colombo district, which is one of three districts (Colombo, Gamapaha and Kalutara) of Sri Lanka’s most populated Western Province, which hosts the largest part of the urbanization belt. Main issues related to urban food security are: fragmentation, malnutrition, stagnant crop yields and increasing food prices, complexity of value chains, food safety and food miles. Based on stakeholder consultations and available research, policy and strategy recommendations are as follows: 1) Facilitate a more holistic and territorial approach to food security and nutrition; 2)Develop physical and institutional capacity to reduce the vulnerability of the urban poor to food price fluctuations; 3) Strengthening food safety across the Colombo city region food system. -
Book (stand-alone)Lusaka City Region Food System Assessment Synthesis Report 2019
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No results found.The Lusaka CRFS assessment helped to identify gaps to be bridged and bottlenecks to be opened to create more resilient and inclusive food systems within the Lusaka City Region, and in long term to make the CRFS more sustainable and resilient, and improve the livelihoods of rural and urban dwellers in the city region. It gives special attention to the challenges of how to improve production capacities, access to inputs, sustainability of production practices and market access for the smallholder farmers in urban, peri-urban and rural areas in the city region, with a specific focus on fruit and vegetable value chains. The assessment examined current and future constraints affecting the local and regional food value chain. It used local knowledge to help analyse and prioritize these constraints and explore new ideas to strengthen the sustainability and performance of the food system.
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