

The project responds to Sustainable Intensification (Focus 1) through developing food system models that couple within-city dynamics with broader global change and agricultural intensification. This will allow us to evaluate what alternative city food pathways mean for sustainable and equitable ecosystem service benefit flows and economies across the urban, peri-urban and rural landscape. Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (Focus 2) is addressed by seeking strategies to diversify city food systems and make healthy food available, accessible and affordable to vulnerable, malnourished social groups in the city. Focus 3 (agricultural markets and trade) is addressed through quantifying the potential of small-scale or informal food chain operators to contribute to positive trajectories of employment and nutrition security.
The project aims to promote sustainable, inclusive and nutrition-secure city food systems by developing knowledge and tools for local and national development planning. It accomplishes this through the following objectives:
Summary ToC with assumptions
Based on existing knowledge, challenges that this project need to influence to achieve its aim include: