The Creation of Sustainable Cities for African Cities

2018. Keynote at the Sustainable African Cities Conference, Accra, Ghana, 4 July.

Edgar Pieterse

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) is an international network of cities and city-based partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, informality, migration and urban food systems in the Global South. The HCP aims to provide solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities, policies and programs that promote food security in cities. The HCP currently operates in Jamaica, Mexico, Ecuador, Qatar, China, India, Singapore, Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa.

Hungry Cities Funding Partners

The Hungry Cities Partnership is supported with a partnership grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Creation of Sustainable Cities for African Cities

The Partnership

Hungry Cities Funding Partners