Explore articles and resources:

• 2025 State of the City Food System Report – Kisumu 
• 2025 State of the City Food System Report – Cape Town 
• 2025 State of the City Food System Report – Ouagadougou
• 2025 State of the City Food System Report – Mbale
• 2025 State of the City Food System Report – Tunis
• AfricanCITYFOOD Month 2021 report
• AfricanCITYFOODMonth report 2020
• 2018 Global Nutrition Report (Development Initiatives, 2018)
• Africa’s Evolving Food Systems. Drivers for change and the scope for influencing them (Jayne, Meyer and Traub, 2014)
• Africa’s Evolving Food Systems. Drivers for change and the scope for influencing them (Jayne, Meyer and Traub, 2014)
• Localising the SDGs through an urban food lens in the global south: Lessons from the Hungry Cities Project.

• Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities (Battersby and Watson, 2019)
• Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

• Placing people at the center: embedding equity in circular food systems

• Insights for transforming urban food systems

• What if the walls in your neighborhood asked you what you eat?

• African enterprises bet on circularity to reshape food systems

• Cultivate Marketplace for transforming African urban food systems: Building bridges between cities and global funders

• FAO Framework for the Urban Food Agenda (FAO, 2019)
• What makes urban food policy happen? Insights from 5 Case Studies. (Hawkes and Halliday, 2017)
• An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security (FAO, 2008)
• Urban food systems and COVID-19: The role of cities and local governments in responding to the emergency (FAO, 2020)
• Food for Cities. What roles for local governments in the global South? (AFD, 2017)
• Food Loss and Waste in the Context of Sustainable Food Systems (HLPE, 2014)
• Sustainable Food Systems. Concepts and Frameworks (FAO, 2018)
• Collaborative Framework for Food Systems Transformation: A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems (UNEP, 2019)

2020 webinars: 

• 1 July 2020 | Welcome to #AfricanCITYFOODmonth: How should we understand food in our cities? WATCH HERE
• 7 July 2020 | Food, climate and COVID-19: Stories from our cities. WATCH HERE
• 15 July 2020 | Nourishing our cities. WATCH HERE
• 21 July 2020 | Food and the circular economy. WATCH HERE
• 29 July 2020 | How youth- and women-led small businesses can improve our local food systems.WATCH HERE
• 31 July 2020 | Our future food systems. WATCH HERE

2021 webinars: 

• 6 July 2021 | African City Food Exchange Part 1: What have we learnt from the UNFSS independent food dialogues process in 16 cities?  WATCH HERE
• 13 July 2021 | African City Food Exchange Part 2 WATCH HERE
• 6 July 2021 | What have we learnt from the UNFSS independent food dialogues process in 16 cities? WATCH HERE
• 20 July 2021 | Sustainable Food Cultures: How our appetites can transform our cities. WATCH HERE
• 27 July 2021 | Where Chemistry, Storytelling and Policy Collide: Lessons from the Inclusive Metabolism Project. This webinar reflects on the outcomes of the 3-year Leading Integrated Research in Africa (LIRA) 2030 project on informality and urban metabolism in African urban food systems.WATCH HERE
• 29 July 2021 | Multiplicities (Menu) of entry points into urban food governance through the lenses of “Food Sensitive Urban Planning” and the “City Region Food System. WATCH HERE

2022 webinars: 

• 12 July 2022| Investment Opportunities in Africa’s Urban Food Systems. WATCH HERE

• 14 July 2022|On the road to recovery: “Nourishing our Cities towards equitable recovery” WATCH HERE

• 21 July 2022| City-to-City City-to-City Exchange: Streamlining multi-level food systems governance between national and local level. WATCH HERE

• 28 July 2021| “South-South” Cities Exchange. African and Latin American Cities: Food System Priorities for Recovery. WATCH HERE

2023 webinars: 

• 10 July 2023 | Governing amidst crisis: how African local governments are taking action on food. WATCH HERE

2024 videos: 

• Video messages from AfriFOODlinks partners: WATCH HERE