The Cityfood Market Handbook For Healthy And Resilient Cities (Ed.2)

Edition 2 of the CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities builds on the first edition with a greater range of case studies. This edition features 31 real-world case studies from small, intermediary and large cities located in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Insightfully, these cases illustrate challenges, learnings and solutions around:

Policy and governance
Market infrastructure
Funding and incentives and capacity building and awareness, across a diversity of socio-economic, environmental and governance contexts.

Available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, this expanded edition showcases how fresh food markets are a vital entry point for realising numerous locally led, inclusive and sustainable food systems transformative outcomes in urban food environments – including livelihood prosperity, community cohesion, food security and access to safe, healthy diets for all.

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GAIN’s contributions

GAIN’s contributions were made possible through the Nourishing Food Pathways programme, which is jointly funded by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; European Union; government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada; Irish Aid through the Development Cooperation and Africa Division; and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The findings, ideas, and conclusions contained presented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of any of GAIN’s funding partners.