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Insights for transforming urban food systems

Lessons learnt from AfriFOODlinks’ real-world interventions

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

Through AfriFOODlinks, artists and communities are using public art to explore how urban food systems shape our lives.

Kabelo Williams

February 27, 2026

African enterprises bet on circularity to reshape food systems

Reshaping how food is produced, packaged, reused, and valued.

Paola Castañeda Rodriguez

January 29, 2026

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

Unlike a traditional pitch event, the Marketplace will create a structured, low-risk space where cities and funders can learn from one another, exchange insights, and explore alignment.

Launching the AfriFOODlinks Braided Investment Strategy: Weaving the next Decade of Urban Food Action in Africa

A landmark 10-year framework to scale urban food system transformation across Africa.

Luke Metelerkamp

November 18, 2025

Five ways cities are building better food systems together

Network Cities Digest

Sinethemba Mthethwa

November 11, 2025

Shared foundations for food systems change in a diverse world

Reflections from the 2025 MUFPP Global Forum in Milan

Esther Diaz Perez

November 5, 2025

Raising the urban voice at the UN Food Systems Summit and beyond

While the African voice was loud, the urban voice remained faint

Three ways youth are influencing local food systems

International Youth Day (12 August) is a chance to reflect on how youth are advancing multilateral cooperation through innovation, partnerships & practical solutions.

Cold storage brings food safety benefits to Kisumu’s informal market vendors

In Kisumu, Kenya, informal food vendors like the women of Obunga Market keep the city fed—often under unsafe and unsanitary conditions; AfriFOODlinks is working with them to change that, one cold room at a time.