Integrating urban forestry, urban agriculture and urban food systems in urban and territorial planning to enhance resilience and the health and wellbeing of urban dwellers (focus Africa)

The main objective of the “FAO Green Cities Initiative” is to increase people’s wellbeing through better availability of and access to products and services provided by urban and peri-urban forestry, agriculture and food systems, improving the urban environment, strengthening urban rural linkages, the resilience of urban populations to external shocks and contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation while ensuring access to healthy diets from sustainable systems. To address the challenges listed above, national and sub-national governments need to rethink the way in which they plan urban and peri-urban areas identifying more inclusive, resilient and green ways to assure the environmental, social and economic wellbeing of their people. The training event aims at addressing and outlining some of the challenges that impinge the relation between planning policies and food policies and to address, through the interaction among the participants, actions that possibly provide effective solutions. 1200/2000