SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Cities and Food

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Cities & Food - Highlighted Books

Cities & Food - Highlighted Journals

Highlighted Articles

The hidden potential of urban horticulture Nature Food	Urban water and food security in this century and beyond: Resource-smart cities and residents Ambio	Eating-out behaviors, associated factors and associations with obesity in Chinese school children: findings from the childhood obesity study in China mega-cities European Journal of Nutrition
Exploring the transformative potential of urban food npj Urban Sustainability	Coupled social and land use dynamics affect dietary choice and agricultural land-use extent Communications Earth & Environment	Circular Economy and Its Relevance for Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Case of Ghana Materials Circular Economy
Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks Nature	A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Water–Energy–Food Grids in Isolated Communities Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability	Ecological performance evaluation of urban agriculture in Beijing based on temperature and fractional vegetation cover Urban Ecosystems
Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems Nature Food	The time is ripe for ESG + Nutrition: evidence-based nutrition metrics for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing European Journal of Clinical Nutrition	Seeding Insights and Nourishing Change: a Case for Participatory Evaluation in Place-Based Community Food Systems International Journal of Community Well-Being
Fishing in the city for food—a paradigmatic case of sustainability in urban blue space npj Urban Sustainability	Mediating Knowledge Co-Production for Inclusive Governance and Delivery of Food, Water and Energy Services in African Cities Urban Forum	Massively reducing food waste could feed the world Scientific American
Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions Urban Forum	Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China Nature Food	Analyzing values-based modes of production and consumption: Community-supported agriculture in the Austrian Third Food Regime Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Topical Collections

Topical Collections now open for submission

- Chemistry: Food Chemistry–Food Technology: Chemistry and Biochemistry of Foods and Food Processing (SN Applied Sciences)

- Sustainable Food Systems and Urban Food Policies (Discover Sustainability) Submission deadline 23 April 2023

Recently Published Topical Collections

- Health-Promoting Bioactives from Foods of Plant Origin - Update and Challenges Ahead (Discover Food)

- Resilient and Sustainable Food Production Systems (Discover Food)

- Food transformations in African secondary cities (Discover Sustainability)

- Blue Food (Discover Sustainability)

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