AIPH Green City Briefing: From allotments to apartments – urban agriculture successes

Urban agriculture offers numerous benefits to cities, providing solutions to problems associated with transportation, health, land use, waste management, education, and community cohesion.

Find out more about the opportunity to use land in cities to increase capacity for local food production.

This Briefing featured the winner of the ‘Living Green for Urban Agriculture & Food Systems’ category of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 – Curitiba, Brazil. The city won for its Urban Agricultura Programme. Find out more.

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Programme

• Welcome and Introduction by MC Jess Haliday, Chief Executive of RUAF CIC and coordinator of the RUAF Global Partnership.
• Presentation by Jill Edmondson, Professor of Ecosystem Sustainability, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
• Presentation by Gabriel Olle Dalmazo from the Municipal Secretariat of Food Security and Nutrition for Curitiba, Brazil
• Q&A

Jess Halliday

Jess Halliday is Chief Executive of RUAF CIC and coordinator of the RUAF Global Partnership. She leads RUAF’s involvement in the CGIAR Resilient Cities Initiative, the RUAF-FAO City Region Food Systems Initiative, and the Urban Futures programme. Her main areas of expertise are urban and city region food systems governance, food environments, gender and inclusion, and multi-stakeholder processes. Jess draws on her academic background for the development of methodologies and tools for urban and city region food systems, having received her PhD in Food Policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, in 2015.

Jill Edmondson

Jill Edmondson is Professor of Ecosystem Sustainability in the School of Biosciences Plants Photosynthesis and Soils Cluster at the University of Sheffield. Her research focusses on the sustainability of urban and agricultural ecosystems exploring the interactions between soils, plants and the ecosystem services they provide to a growing global population. Her work explores the hidden potential of urban horticulture to support food production and wider benefits to society. She has embedded knowledge exchange and co-design into her research to ensure the outcomes deliver real-world impact.

Gabriel Olle Dalmazo

Gabriel is an agronomist and employee of the Municipal Secretariat of Food Security and Nutrition for Curitiba, Brazil. Gabriel has both technical and practical expertise in Curitiba’s Urban Agriculture program, which won the ‘Living Green for Urban Agriculture & Food Systems’ category of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024.