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Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: toward more resilient cities in the Global South

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Title Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: toward more resilient cities in the Global South
 
Creator Prain, Gordon
Simon, David
Halliday, Jess
Drechsel, Pay
 
Subject agrifood systems
urban agriculture
peri-urban agriculture
investment
research
innovation
resilience
cities
markets
informal sector
circular economy
bioeconomy
resource recovery
waste management
food production
governance
planning
policies
 
Description Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is widely distributed throughout the Global South. Despite urban population growth and diversifying food habits, UPA delivers an important part of urban food supply, as well as other types of services to cities, such as employment and waste reuse. Nevertheless, the extent and importance of UPA varies between different urban areas, while challenges like limited recognition, land conversion, and water pollution and competition threaten the potential of UPA to contribute to urban resilience. Key investment priorities for research and innovation for overcoming current challenges include incentivized peri-urban zoning, urban allocation of productive lands, and increasing capacities for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Innovative repositioning of food marketing can help to strengthen supply of healthy food from UPA production, increase decent employment, and turn food markets into nutrition hubs. Priority innovations for contributing to the circular bioeconomy of cities include scaling the safe use of wastewater for irrigation through investments in the adoption of multiple risk-barrier approaches and scaling UPA-based ecosystem services for valorising solid waste and environmental management. Innovations in urban governance are required to support these processes by bringing food systems into urban planning through food mapping and the multisectoral platforms for dialogue and policy formulation across city regions and with vertical levels of government.
 
Date 2022-11-10
2022-11-16T05:36:36Z
2022-11-16T05:36:36Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Prain, G.; Simon, D.; Halliday, J.; Drechsel, Pay. 2022. Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: toward more resilient cities in the Global South. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6:965011. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.965011]
2571-581X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125485
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.965011
Rural-Urban Linkages
H051503
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 6:965011.
 
Source Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems