TRANSFORMING AFRICA’S URBAN FOOD ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH STRENGTHENING LINKAGES BETWEEN FOOD SYSTEMS STAKEHOLDERS IN CITIES ACROSS EUROPE AND THE CONTINENT

AfriFOODlinks旨在改善粮食和营养安全，同时为气候和环境带来积极成果，并在65多个城市（15个非洲和5个欧洲实施城市和40多个网络城市）中建立社会和生态复原力，方法是：1)应用城市粮食系统视角促进向健康、可持续饮食的转变；2)通过现实世界的社会技术实验改变城市粮食环境；3)促进包容性多主体治理，赋予公职人员、小企业和社区主人翁和代理权，以塑造其粮食系统；4)加快由妇女和青年领导的创新型农业食品企业的发展，以支持本地增值和包容性经济参与。AfriFOODlinks投资于5个非洲中心城市的直接粮食系统变革，并邀请10个非洲和5个欧洲共享城市加入中心城市的相互学习之旅，分享他们的创新粮食系统，并共同设计具体的试点项目，以便在每个共享城市实施。20个地方政府的研究人员将支持该市阐明其确定的粮食系统挑战和自己的真实方法，以改善获得健康、有营养的食物的机会——特别关注弱势群体——并通过粮食系统干预减少与粮食有关的环境影响。通过这种方式，这些实施城市成为旗舰-整个非洲大陆城市粮食系统转型的灵感灯塔，激励并与40多个网络城市分享，这些城市被邀请采用和适应。

AfriFOODlinks aims to improve food and nutrition security, while delivering positive outcomes for climate and the environment, and building social and ecological resilience in 65+ Cities (15 African and 5 European Implementation cities and 40+ Network Cities) cities by: 1) applying an urban food systems lens to promote shifts to healthy, sustainable diets, 2) transforming urban food environments through real-world socio-technical experiments; 3) promoting inclusive multi-actor governance to empower public officials, small businesses and communities with ownership and agency to shape their food systems; and 4) accelerating innovative, women- and youth-led agri-food businesses to support local value addition and inclusive economic participation. AfriFOODlinks invests in direct food system change in 5 African Hub Cities, and invites 10 African and 5 European Sharing Cities to join the Hub Cities on a mutual-learning journey, to share their innovative food systems and to co-design specific pilot projects for implementation in each Sharing City. Researchers, posted within each of the 20 local governments, will support the city to articulate its identified food system challenges and own authentic approach to improving access to healthy, nutritious food - with a particular attention to vulnerable groups - and reducing food related environmental impacts through food systems intervention. In this way, these implementation cities become flagships - beacons of inspiration for urban food systems transitions across the continent to inspire and share with over 40 Network cities, who are invited to adopt and adapt.