A selection of produce at the Veggie Van in Linden. The project launched to bring fresh fruit and vegetables to Columbus' food deserts. For the first time ever, Columbus is hosting the Urban Food ...

The Transforming Urban Rural Food Systems (TURFS) Consortium launched its Strategy for Food Systems Transformation at COP28 on ‘Food, Agriculture and Water’ day. TURFS has a carefully developed ...

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The pact has been signed by 330 cities around the world that have pledged to ...

Picture stepping onto your urban balcony and picking fresh tomatoes, basil, and leafy greens for tonight’s dinner. This simple act connects you to a growing movement transforming our cities into ...

While farmers continue to face challenges -- from global competition and transportation issues to avian influenza and climate change -- a 'micro-agriculture approach' or backyard gardens can increase ...

‘There’s a lot of work to do around food governance and there’s a need to think about how cities should respond, in a way that is different to how we traditionally responded,” Luke Metelerkamp told ...

What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple ...

University of Michigan researchers evaluate an urban garden in Detroit. Credit: Dave Brenner, University of Michigan. A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and ...

Gisèle Yasmeen has consulted for the World Bank to produce background papers that have, in part, fed into this work with permission. Julian Tayarah and Umme Salma do not work for, consult, own shares ...