RUAF is a global partnership on sustainable urban agriculture and food systems. The RUAF partners strengthen each other in joint and collaborative strategy development, research, benchmarking and upscaling, representation and networking, dissemination and awareness raising, and implementation. RUAF is co-convener of the ICLEI-RUAF CITYFOOD network, which aims to accelerate local and regional government action on sustainable and resilient city-region food systems by combining networking with training, policy guidance and technical expertise to its participants. As of 2019, the RUAF Secretariat is hosted by HIVOS.