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June 2017
What Makes Urban Food Policy Happen?
Insights from five case studies
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Cities are at the forefront of our food system challenges. With more than half the world’s population living in urban areas – and rising – cities face enormous responsibilities, including ensuring access to nutritious food, combating climate change, tackling public health, preserving rural livelihoods, and enhancing urban resilience and infrastructure.
Over the last two decades, hundreds of cities around the world have developed food policies or governance structures to help meet these needs.
In this report, IPES-Food presents five city case studies (Belo Horizonte, Nairobi, Amsterdam, Golden Horseshoe, and Detroit) which illustrate key enablers for success for developing urban food policies, and which can be adapted and implemented by others. These key strategies include:
- Leveraging city powers for food policy integration;
- Cross-departmental and multi-level governance integration for cohesive policy development;
- Rigorous monitoring and adaptive learning to gauge and enhance food policy impacts;
- Inclusive engagement of all stakeholders in the policymaking process to ensure broad-based support and diverse perspectives;
- Security and sustaining political commitment for food policies.
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