Thematic Round Tables and Parallel Sessions
Governments, regional authorities, civil society, the private sector, research bodies, and technical and financial partners should all join efforts to carry out concrete actions within the accepted strategies, working with a set of clear rights, obligations and responsibilities. The objective is to create a resilient city or territory that contributes to a green economy, offers a healthy environment, responds to local climate change issues, and participates in the prevention and the reduction of risks and optimizes their capacity to feed populations in a sustainable and healthy manner. Urban and rural development must be rethought by reinforcing the partnerships and the sharing of information and best practices and by improving the training aimed at elected representatives and their services, authorities, technical training institutions, universities and research bodies.
Recommendations of the Session: That food and nutrition security be integrated in the UCLG Global Agenda as a cross-sector theme linked with social inclusion, local economic development, climate change and mobility; that UCLG encourages and develops structured initiatives promoted by members such as the Core Group “Food Security� of ORUFOGAR, with view to creating a cross-sector Committee; that the Commission elaborates a publication on the Territorial Food System (S.A.T.), including rural and urban issues, that are intertwined with the Habitat III agenda; that the Commission and United Nations’ Agencies coordinate to develop this approach to the territorial food system.
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