Year of publication 2025

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Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

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Pages 12 p.

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Publisher FAO ;

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Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) By 2050, the world’s urban population is expected to nearly double, making urbanization one of the twenty-first century’s most transformative trends . Considering that out of the 2.33 billion people who are moderately or severely food insecure in the world, 1.7 billion live in urban and peri-urban areas , this rapid urban growth represents a significant global food security ad nutrition challenge as well as an opportunity, taking into account the rural-urban continuum and linkages, including rural livelihoods and investments. Urbanization and peri-urbanizationresult from interconnected transformations in demography, economies, culture, social systems, land use and technology and innovation. Understanding the changes occurring throughout agriculture and food systems requires therefore adopting a rural–urban continuum lens. This approach allows highlighting the growing interconnectedness of urban, peri-urban and rural areas as a foundation for addressing socio-economic dynamics, planning effective resource production and distribution, and developing policies that reflect the complex realities of these interlinked communities. Building on a rural-urban continuum approach, the following CFS policy recommendations are envisioned as a focused, action-oriented guidance tool to strengthen urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation and contribute to the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, while taking into account multiple challenges such as climate change, including extreme weather events and slow onset events, loss of biodiversity, ecosystem degradation and desertification, political instability, economic downturns, debt and debt sustainability , increasing inequality, conflicts, man-made and natural disasters and rapid and unplanned urbanization, and contributing to achieving all Sustainable Development Goals according to national priorities and contexts.

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Statutory body / Meeting title Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

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Meeting symbol .

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Meeting Session Number Sess. 53

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Meeting date 20-24 October 2025

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Meeting location Rome, Italy

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Language English

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• Spanish

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