Urban Food Security: Examining the Unique Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Ensuring Food Security in Urban Areas
Food security is a significant concern in urban areas (UAs). With the rapid increase in urbanization, addressing this issue has become increasingly important.
A bibliometric analysis of urban food security
The study of urban food security has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. This evolution has been punctuated, and catalyzed, by insights into the dynamic transformation of food systems in cities. The evolution of this field, as revealed by its scholarly writings, provides an important vantage point for understanding both the dynamic transformation of the urban food system as well as ...
Urban Food Security and Resilience
The concept of resilience within urban food systems has gained significant academic and policy focus in recent years. This aligns with the increased global awareness of the problem of urban food insecurity, and increased focus on sub-national policies for sustainable development. COVID-19 demonstrated a series of vulnerabilities in the food ...
Full article: The role of cities in good governance for food security
This is mainly because governance for food security, particularly urban food governance, tends to be idealized as a space of democratic multi-stakeholder involvement, capable of developing a solidarity-based and capacity-building food system (Sonnino, Citation 2019). To date, there is a gap in the academic literature about the potential of ...
Urban food insecurity and its determinants: a baseline study of
This is the first study of urban food security at a city scale in India that focuses on self-reported measures of food access and food intake using experiential metrics. We analyse food insecurity in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, through a household survey covering 1,698 households across the city. Through the study, we assess the prevalence of ...
Food for Thought: Addressing Urban Food Security Risks through Urban
The 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report highlighted that the world is not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2 to "end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture" [] in 2030 [].This is partly due to the fact that the number of people experiencing any form of food insecurity steadily increased from 1.63 ...
Full article: Analysing the contribution of urban agriculture towards
Although urban agriculture has increasingly been identified by urban decision-makers and researchers as a highly promising pillar of informal food supply systems (Rogerson, Citation 1998; Cofie et al., Citation 2003; Mougeot, Citation 2005; Paganini et al., Citation 2018), the evidence of its impact on urban food security is still highly ...
Review A systematic review of urban agriculture and food security
Introduction. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, ensuring the food security of poor city residents is of central importance. Globally, over half the world's population lives in cities, and although the proportion is smaller in low-income countries (28% of total population in 2012), these countries are undergoing the fastest rates of urban population growth, particularly in sub ...
Assessing Urban Water-Energy-Food Security: A Case of ...
Water-energy-food (WEF) risks and security are widely concerned, but there are few quantitative studies on WEF security assessment, especially lacking of researches at the urban scale. This paper puts forward a measurement framework for assessing urban WEF security from social and economic perspectives, including dimensions of availability, accessibility, affordability, safety, and ...
Full article: Determinants of Urban food security status at household
From this, the majority (72%) are food secures, and just a few (28%) are found food insecure, which indicates how much housing ownership in urban cities plays a vital role in household food security. Access to credit : Credit is a means to boost production and expand income-generating activities (Aliou & Manfred, Citation 2001 ; Diagne ...
Addis Ababa University College of Development Studies Center for Food
Contributions Of Urban Productive Safety Net Program Public Work to Household Food Security: A Case of Woreda 1 Jemo, Nefas Silk Lafto Addis Ababa. Urban productive safety net program (UPSNP) presents the first major opportunity to address food gaps of the vulnerable while at the same time employing the poor and vulnerable.
Urban sprawl, food security and agricultural systems in developing
This is most evident in the case of urban environments in developing countries, where urban food security and the urban food supply are of major importance. The impacts and implications of urban sprawl on agricultural production in developing countries are therefore being more widely recognised and issues related to food security are ...
Drought, urban resilience and urban food security in kaKhoza, Manzini
Food security is the ability to secure an adequate daily supply of food that is affordable, hygienic and nutritious and it has become a chronic development problem in most urban areas of the global South. This thesis contributes to the urban food security debate by exploring the connection between drought and food security in urban Swaziland ...
Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional
Despite a 2.3% increase in world cereal production in 2019 over 2018, the number of people facing severe food insecurity may double from 135 million in January 2020 to 265 million by the end of 2020. The problem of food and nutritional insecurity is severe in urban centers, where the global population is projected to increase (%/year) by 1.84, 1.63, and 1.44 between 2015 to 2020, 2020 to 2025 ...
Reimagining Urban Food Security by Benjamin Chong
This thesis re-examines sustainable urban agriculture by first understanding the importance of food security in Singapore, where food is a key part of its cultural identity, and its geopolitical ...
PDF The Role of Urban Agriculture towards Livelihood and Food Security
Master thesis in Rural Development and Natural Resource Management EX0777 Rural Development and Natural Resources Management - Master's Programme ... (FAO, 2012). As a result of this rapid urbanization, ensuring food security of urban residents has become a critical challenge (Poulsen et al., 2015) and the focus of food insecurity has shifted ...
PDF Food Security in Eurasia 2020
Urban Food Security and the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Uzbekistan Cities Executive Summary Executive.Summary COVID-19 presents new challenges to urban food systems. This case study assesses food security amid the pandemic crisis and consequent lockdown in cities of Uzbekistan. Findings are based on a sur-
French Researcher Pleads Guilty in Moscow for Failing to Register as
(Reuters) -French researcher Laurent Vinatier pleaded guilty in a Moscow court on Friday to a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent while gathering information on the Russian military.
U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa
June 7, 2024. In the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States rushed troops and military aid to a swath of West Africa to help French forces stop the spread of Al Qaeda and other ...
Full article: Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban
This trend is as a result of the practice of urban agriculture which ensures food security as residents engage in agriculture on their plots and open spaces. There are also reserved land parcels by the government (north of Morogoro urban) for farming. There was also a significant decrease of vegetation from 410 km 2 in 2011 to 390 km 2 in 2017.
The E.U. Is Voting. It's Never Mattered More
"The problem is that all the major areas where the E.U. needs to address problems for its citizens now — competitiveness, migration, security — these are issues at the limit of the E.U.'s ...
(PDF) Urban agriculture and sustainable cities
Dar -es-Salaam, one of the world's. fastest growing large cities, now has 67% of families engaged in farming. compared with 18% in 1967. Presently, 65% of Moscow families are involved in. food ...
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Food security is a significant concern in urban areas (UAs). With the rapid increase in urbanization, addressing this issue has become increasingly important.
The study of urban food security has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. This evolution has been punctuated, and catalyzed, by insights into the dynamic transformation of food systems in cities. The evolution of this field, as revealed by its scholarly writings, provides an important vantage point for understanding both the dynamic transformation of the urban food system as well as ...
The concept of resilience within urban food systems has gained significant academic and policy focus in recent years. This aligns with the increased global awareness of the problem of urban food insecurity, and increased focus on sub-national policies for sustainable development. COVID-19 demonstrated a series of vulnerabilities in the food ...
This is mainly because governance for food security, particularly urban food governance, tends to be idealized as a space of democratic multi-stakeholder involvement, capable of developing a solidarity-based and capacity-building food system (Sonnino, Citation 2019). To date, there is a gap in the academic literature about the potential of ...
This is the first study of urban food security at a city scale in India that focuses on self-reported measures of food access and food intake using experiential metrics. We analyse food insecurity in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, through a household survey covering 1,698 households across the city. Through the study, we assess the prevalence of ...
The 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report highlighted that the world is not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2 to "end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture" [] in 2030 [].This is partly due to the fact that the number of people experiencing any form of food insecurity steadily increased from 1.63 ...
Although urban agriculture has increasingly been identified by urban decision-makers and researchers as a highly promising pillar of informal food supply systems (Rogerson, Citation 1998; Cofie et al., Citation 2003; Mougeot, Citation 2005; Paganini et al., Citation 2018), the evidence of its impact on urban food security is still highly ...
Introduction. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, ensuring the food security of poor city residents is of central importance. Globally, over half the world's population lives in cities, and although the proportion is smaller in low-income countries (28% of total population in 2012), these countries are undergoing the fastest rates of urban population growth, particularly in sub ...
Water-energy-food (WEF) risks and security are widely concerned, but there are few quantitative studies on WEF security assessment, especially lacking of researches at the urban scale. This paper puts forward a measurement framework for assessing urban WEF security from social and economic perspectives, including dimensions of availability, accessibility, affordability, safety, and ...
From this, the majority (72%) are food secures, and just a few (28%) are found food insecure, which indicates how much housing ownership in urban cities plays a vital role in household food security. Access to credit : Credit is a means to boost production and expand income-generating activities (Aliou & Manfred, Citation 2001 ; Diagne ...
Contributions Of Urban Productive Safety Net Program Public Work to Household Food Security: A Case of Woreda 1 Jemo, Nefas Silk Lafto Addis Ababa. Urban productive safety net program (UPSNP) presents the first major opportunity to address food gaps of the vulnerable while at the same time employing the poor and vulnerable.
This is most evident in the case of urban environments in developing countries, where urban food security and the urban food supply are of major importance. The impacts and implications of urban sprawl on agricultural production in developing countries are therefore being more widely recognised and issues related to food security are ...
Food security is the ability to secure an adequate daily supply of food that is affordable, hygienic and nutritious and it has become a chronic development problem in most urban areas of the global South. This thesis contributes to the urban food security debate by exploring the connection between drought and food security in urban Swaziland ...
Despite a 2.3% increase in world cereal production in 2019 over 2018, the number of people facing severe food insecurity may double from 135 million in January 2020 to 265 million by the end of 2020. The problem of food and nutritional insecurity is severe in urban centers, where the global population is projected to increase (%/year) by 1.84, 1.63, and 1.44 between 2015 to 2020, 2020 to 2025 ...
This thesis re-examines sustainable urban agriculture by first understanding the importance of food security in Singapore, where food is a key part of its cultural identity, and its geopolitical ...
Master thesis in Rural Development and Natural Resource Management EX0777 Rural Development and Natural Resources Management - Master's Programme ... (FAO, 2012). As a result of this rapid urbanization, ensuring food security of urban residents has become a critical challenge (Poulsen et al., 2015) and the focus of food insecurity has shifted ...
Urban Food Security and the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Uzbekistan Cities Executive Summary Executive.Summary COVID-19 presents new challenges to urban food systems. This case study assesses food security amid the pandemic crisis and consequent lockdown in cities of Uzbekistan. Findings are based on a sur-
(Reuters) -French researcher Laurent Vinatier pleaded guilty in a Moscow court on Friday to a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent while gathering information on the Russian military.
June 7, 2024. In the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States rushed troops and military aid to a swath of West Africa to help French forces stop the spread of Al Qaeda and other ...
This trend is as a result of the practice of urban agriculture which ensures food security as residents engage in agriculture on their plots and open spaces. There are also reserved land parcels by the government (north of Morogoro urban) for farming. There was also a significant decrease of vegetation from 410 km 2 in 2011 to 390 km 2 in 2017.
"The problem is that all the major areas where the E.U. needs to address problems for its citizens now — competitiveness, migration, security — these are issues at the limit of the E.U.'s ...
Dar -es-Salaam, one of the world's. fastest growing large cities, now has 67% of families engaged in farming. compared with 18% in 1967. Presently, 65% of Moscow families are involved in. food ...