Professional Officer: Urban Food Systems

The successful candidate must have a strong scientific/technical background in food systems, urban development, economics, systems thinking, and/or socio-technical systems, and working at the city and city-region level, while also being able to effectively and creatively communicate technical subjects to diverse audiences. Experience and interest in the following areas is required:

The successful candidate must have a strong scientific/technical background in food systems, urban development, economics, systems thinking, and/or socio-technical systems, and working at the city and city-region level, while also being able to effectively and creatively communicate technical subjects to diverse audiences. Experience and interest in the following areas is required:

Urban Food Systems (Urban Food System Governance & Food Safety OR Food Nutrition OR Food Value Chains)
African Urbanisation Trends & Urban strategies; Sustainable Cities
Systems thinking and Systems approaches

Professional Officer: Urban Food Systems

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Advocating for accelerated action at COP28

Our cities and regions across the continent are gearing up to make their voices heard loud and clear at COP28, through a range of interventions, stressing the urgent need to scale up a rigorous all-of-economy, all-of-society approach which leads to urgent and significant climate action this decade.