Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions

This report highlights the critical failures of the current food system, especially for poor and marginalised communities. It outlines a "polycrisis" of interconnected economic, environmental, and social challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, biodiversity loss, and weak governance exacerbated by global pressures and pandemics like COVID-19. While debates continue over whether solutions lie in scientific innovation, systemic reform, or grassroots action, the report proposes the urban scale as a key arena for addressing these issues. It examines urban food governance approaches, emphasising the importance of community-level agency in transforming food systems towards more equitable and context-appropriate models.

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