Zhenzhong Si

Following a recent multi-stakeholder workshop in Bellagio on “Harnessing Urban Food Systems for Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being”, the Partnership has lent its support to the Bellagio Communique along with a number of other agencies including UNHABITAT, the World Food Programme, the African Centre for Cities and the RUAF Foundation. A number of HCP researchers […]

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and Nanjing University organized a workshop entitled Wet Market and Urban Food System in Nanjing on January 12, 2017 at the School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences of Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. The workshop aimed to disseminate the results of the HCP household food security survey in Nanjing to government

This online course examines how urban sustainability can be delivered: how cities function as systems of systems; how to increase urban productivity, reduce urban poverty and inequality and enable urban inclusion and safety; and protect the urban environment, reduce risk and vulnerability. The course is led and curated by Aromar Revi, Director of the IIHS

The Hungry Cities Partnership participated in Food Secure Canada’s 9th National Assembly on October 14, 2016 at Ryerson University. HCP Associate Director Dr. Bruce Frayne (UW) and HCP Data Manager Dr. Cameron McCordic (BSIA) represented the Hungry Cities Partnership in a session on “Global Perspectives on Sustainable City Region Food Systems.” Dr. Frayne and Dr.

The HCP participated in the World Nutrition Conference at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town from 29 August to 3 September 2016: Jonathan Crush (BSIA) chaired the Symposium on “The Food and Nutrition System We Need”; Jane Battersby (ACC) presented on “Beyond Nutrition: Food as Social, Spatial and Economic Context

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP), African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) and the Consuming Urban Poverties (CUP) research projects convened a workshop entitled Joining the Sustainable Development Goals: Urbanization and Food Security in the Global South in July 2016 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers presented thoughtful and insightful findings on