Urban agriculture as a climate change and disaster risk reduction strategy

Urban and peri-urban agriculture is considered as a strategy that can bring multiple benefits and help to build resilient urban food systems at the city region level. Cities have an important role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk management and in enhancing the clim...

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Autores principales: Veenhuizen, D.M.R. van, Halliday, J.C.T.
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: RUAF Foundation 2019
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106037
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description Urban and peri-urban agriculture is considered as a strategy that can bring multiple benefits and help to build resilient urban food systems at the city region level. Cities have an important role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk management and in enhancing the climate resilience of their vulnerable residents. Major emitters of greenhouse gas (GHG), cities are not only contributing to climate change, but are also directly and indirectly impacted by it. Acute or chronic climate change is threatening access to basic urban services such as water, energy and food for growing populations. Key issues include rising temperatures, increasing rainfall, flooding and urban food insecurity. Rapid urban growth will only increase the number of highly vulnerable urban communities, with the urban poor being most at risk. Only with a coordinated approach and action at the global, regional, national and local levels can the climate change emergency be curbed, and its eff ects mitigated.
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spelling CGSpace1060372023-03-14T08:13:48Z Urban agriculture as a climate change and disaster risk reduction strategy Veenhuizen, D.M.R. van Halliday, J.C.T. Urban and peri-urban agriculture is considered as a strategy that can bring multiple benefits and help to build resilient urban food systems at the city region level. Cities have an important role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk management and in enhancing the climate resilience of their vulnerable residents. Major emitters of greenhouse gas (GHG), cities are not only contributing to climate change, but are also directly and indirectly impacted by it. Acute or chronic climate change is threatening access to basic urban services such as water, energy and food for growing populations. Key issues include rising temperatures, increasing rainfall, flooding and urban food insecurity. Rapid urban growth will only increase the number of highly vulnerable urban communities, with the urban poor being most at risk. Only with a coordinated approach and action at the global, regional, national and local levels can the climate change emergency be curbed, and its eff ects mitigated. 2019 2019-12-06T09:50:40Z 2019-12-06T09:50:40Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106037 en Open Access application/pdf RUAF Foundation van Veenhuizen, D. M. R. ; Halliday, J. 2019. Urban agriculture as a climate change and disaster risk reduction strategy. 32p.
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