Consuming Urban Poverty

The new HLPE report "Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition, in the context of urbanization and rural transformation" led by CUP's Jane Battersby is now live.

77% of people in the world experiencing severe or moderate food insecurity now live in urban and peri-urban areas. There is an urgent need to redirect food security and food system policies and investments to address this growing challenge.

You can access the full report and executive summary here: https://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/publications/hlpe-19

Photo credit: ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico

Please read, reflect and provide input on the VO of the HLPE-FSN report on Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation.

This report will shape urban and peri-urban food policy discussions at the global scale, so your input is essential.

Comment period is open until 18 January 2024.

Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation – V0 draft of the HLPE-FSN report #19 During its 50th Plenary Session (10 – 13 October 2022), the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) to produce a report entitled “Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrit...

The HLPE Report on Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition is now live.
Access the full report herehttps://www.fao.org/3/cc6536en/cc6536en.pdf
And the Executive Summary here:https://www.fao.org/3/cc6537en/cc6537en.pdf

We cannot address inequality in food security and nutrition outcomes without addressing underlying inequities in the food system and related systems, and the underlying drivers of inequality.

Launch of the report on “reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition”: 15 June 2023 The launch of the HLPE-FSN report on “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition” will take place on Thursday, 15 June 2023 at FAO headquarte...

The HLPE-FSN report on "reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition" launches on 15th June 2023.
CUP's Jane Battersby was a part of the writing team of this important report.
Sign up for the Launch here:

Launch of the report on “reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition”: 15 June 2023 The launch of the HLPE-FSN report on “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition” will take place on Thursday, 15 June 2023 at FAO headquarte...

Great coverage of the Masi Ambassadors programme, which emerged out of the Nourished Child project.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-31-young-ambassadors-inspiring-masiphumeleles-children-to-eat-healthier/

The little project that could thanks to amazing project team members, community partners and project participants.

NUTRITION OP-ED : Young ambassadors inspiring Masiphumelele’s children to eat healthier The ambassadors form part of the Nourished Child Ambassador Programme — an initiative following a multi-university research project that looked to find answers for addressing malnutrition among women and children.

The Architecture Off-Centre podcast is doing a series on food from an architecture, design and planning perspective. I was v happy to be a part of this series. Some fascinating episodes out already, and more to come:
https://www.archoffcentre.com/episodes-1

https://www.archoffcentre.com/episodes-1/episode/1a50c8cb/on-urban-food-deserts-jane-battersby

A few months ago I was asked to write a piece for New Agenda on the topic of "Toward a Comprehensive Policy on Food Security."

I took no prisoners in this short piece. My recommendations are Firstly, policy must be informed by a wider range of data types and data sets. Secondly, food policy should be genuinely multi-level in governance. Thirdly, food security policy should be transversal. Finally, a comprehensive food security policy needs to be inclusive of extra- governmental voices.

https://ifaaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Revised-food-security-policy.pdf

The Consultation on the draft of the HLPE Report on Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition is now open.

This report will shape food policy decisions globally and nationally going forward.

Anyone is welcome to provide input that will guide us in revising the report.

Please share in your networks and provide feedback so we can move towards more equal and equitable food systems and food security and nutrition outcomes.
https://www.fao.org/fsnforum/consultation/reducing-inequalities-food-security-and-nutrition-hlpe-fsn-consultation-v0-draft"

New Book Alert: Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya by James Duminy

Past governance of food fundamentally shapes current food systems. As part of the CUP project, James Duminy examined the case of colonial Kenya.
Link to book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10964-5

"This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the 'analysis of government', the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa - policies and practices that prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources, the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in Kenya. "

Hot off the (virtual) press. Access the new UNICEF report "A Systems Approach to Improving Children’s Diets: Learning from lived experience" here: https://lnkd.in/eHMXHAbj

It features case studies from Cape Town, Tunis and rural Philippines. The Cape Town case is from our work in Masiphumelele.

There will be a Master Class on how to conduct and use lived experience research to advance policy change for children on 17 Nov. Save the Date. Details to follow.

Delighted to announce that the Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance is now available for purchase.

The book has 32 chapters from leading and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world and reflects on urban food governance pasts, presents and futures from theoretical and applied perspectives.

You can access the introductory chapter in which we lay out a new framing of urban food governance as a free preview at the link below (and buy a copy of the full book in hard copy e-copy).

https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Urban-Food-Governance/Moragues-Faus-Clark-Battersby-Davies/p/book/9780367518004