ICLEI’s CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities

with contributions from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the World Farmers Markets Coalition (WFMC)

The CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities

launched at the Climate Chance EU-Africa Summit (31 March – 1 April)

Summit theme: Adaption: Taking Action

The CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities is an ICLEI lead initiative with contributions by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and World Farmers Markets Coalition (WFMC). This handbook offers local and city governments, national and global policymakers, businesses, researchers, communities and wider civil society substantive insights into what is and can be done to transform food systems in multiple ways with co-benefits for people and the environment and specifically the advancement of safe, healthy diets through the entry point of city governments and food markets. Sixteen (16) city-market cases from across the world are presented in the handbook. Each case illustrates an approach/es to local, food systems transformation as per policy and governance, infrastructure, funding and incentives and capacity building and awareness raising.

More about the ICLEI Global City Food Programme’s hosted workshop and launch:

Enhancing Urban-Rural Linkages for Resilient Food Systems

31 March 2025 –  16:00 to 17:30 at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille (in person)

Moderator

• Peter Defranceschi, Head of Global CityFood Programme, ICLEI

Keynote Speaker

• Corinna Hawkes, Director, Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO

Panelists

• Nicolas Bricas, Researcher, CIRAD & Director, UNESCO Chair on World Food Systems

• Wilber Kakaire, AfriFOODlinks City Coordinator for Mbale, Uganda

• Annie Trevenen-Jones, Technical Manager: Food Systems Governance, GAIN

• Giaime Berti, Chair, Resilient Local Food Supply Chains Alliance

• Jiwon Lee, Principal Co-Lead of Global CityFood Programme, ICLEI

• City of Marseille (TBC)