Rural-urban food systems: ensuring food security in the context of climate change

1. Rural-urban food systems: ensuring food security in the context of climate change

2. What is the issue? • Population growth in urban/ peri-urban areas • Urban poor emerging rapidly as critical food insecure group • Little understanding of food systems which support their food security • Fluid movements and continuum between rural and urban households • What do we understand about urban migration as a food security strategy? Or climate stress? • Are there tradeoffs or synergies between these?

3. Science content • Adaptation to enhance food security • Climate shocks locally and globally • Tradeoffs or synergies between adaptation to enhance food security and vulnerability to climate • Institutions/ governance • Access to inputs and markets • Role of key actors • Gender and social differentiation • Policy and institutional architecture • Landscape approach: food systems urban poor depend upon span the rural – peri-urban– urban continuum

4. Collaboration selling points • Development value: urban poor are food insecure; urban poor have links to rural communities. • GEC science value: vulnerability and adaptation science; earth systems governance; landscape approach involving land use and migration; global and local interactions • Agric Science value: through food security lens

5. Collaboration selling points (2) • Advance CC agenda: advances understanding of adaptation needs for urban food security --places adaptation studies in specific and urgent context • CCAFS agenda: expands work on food systems; links rural production to urban consumers;; integrates GEC and CGIAR agendas across spatial levels. • Link to stakeholders: food security planning; urban/ peri-urban land use planning;