FOOD SYSTEMS AND URBAN

PLANNING: GLOBAL AND NATIONAL

PERSPECTIVES

Shipra Narang Suri | Chief, Urban Practices Branch, UN-Habitat

23rd March 2021
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND FOOD SYSTEMS AND NUTRITION
FOOD AND NUTRITION IN THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
FOOD AND NUTRITION IN UN-HABITAT’S STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023
COUNTRY PROJECTS ON URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES, FOOD AND NUTRITION

 United Republic of Tanzania (Zanzibar)

 Cameroon
 Guinea
UNDA
 Nigeria (Niger State)

 Mozambique (Closed in 2020)

 Mali
 Democratic Republic of the Congo

Food in all planning phases

 Senegal
 Burkina Faso
CASE STUDY: CANADA, GREATER TORONTO AREA; LONG TERM FOOD SECURITY
THROUGH PROGRESSIVE PLANNING;
IMPACT

• Effective protection of nearly 2

million acres of land and nearly
5,500 highly productive farms
• Long-term food security has been
addressed within the region
• Providing jobs for local population
and limiting environmental impacts
• Reducing energy consumption in
transportation due to the proximity
of agricultural land and markets.

In order to secure agricultural production and prevent the transformation of rural land into a sprawling
urban landscape, the government of the province adopted the Greenbelt Act, which led to the
development and implementation of the Greenbelt Plan
CASE STUDY: TANZANIA- MAINSTREAMING URBAN AGRICULTURE IN DAR ES SALAAM

Link to Framework for Action: I. Integrated

approaches for food security, nutrition, and public
health

• 90% of city´s vegetables grown in open spaces and

gardens and income generation
CASE STUDY: GHANA- PROMOTING FOOD SYSTEM IN URBAN POLICY +
OUTCOMES

Establish rural service
centres and strengthen
rural-urban linkages to
promote agriculture and
development of agro-
based industries.
National Urban Policy
Framework extract;
2012
KEYFIGURES (2016)
4 Fully operational Rural
service Centres servicing over
8 000 farmers in 4 districts
153 demo plots set-up
2 342 farmers buying inputs at
competitive rates
2 245 farmers trained in
financial literacy
UN-HABITAT NORMATIVE GUIDANCE, TOOLS AND RESOURCES

• Urban-rural Linkages: Guiding Principles and Framework of Action

• Implementing the URL-GP with the food systems and nutrition lens

• SMART Villages work (eg.reducing urban-rural digital divide

enhancing link between producers and consumers)

• Mainstreaming Food systems and Nutrition in National Urban

Policies

• IG-UTP is multi-level, multi-stakeholder, multi-sector approach to

urban and territorial planning. The think piece provides food and
nutrition actions in urban and territorial planning
UPCOMING RELEVANT EVENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS IN 2021

The Second International Forum on Urban-Rural Linkages (October or November 2021

Songyang China)

Nutrition for Growth (N4G) and the UN Summit on Food and Nutrition (September or October
2021)

The Conference of the Parties of the three Rio Conventions (Climate Change, Biodiversity and
Desertification)

Green cities initiative in collaboration with FAO

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