文档介绍：Agriculture Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Urban food security
By 2005, over half the world’s people will live in
cities. Supplying them with safe and affordable
food will strain the food supply and distribution
chain to the breaking point. The challenge is
greatest in the developing world’s cities, where
urban poverty rates often exceed 50 percent.
This interview with Olivio Argenti, FAO urban
food security specialist, highlights some of the
issues to be faced.
Urban populations are steadily
increasing. What are the implications for
their food security and safety?
"Urbanization is likely to eat up the productive food production. It is a very important source of
land, pushing food production further and food, such as vegetables, fruits and meat, which
further away. This increases the cost of all are usually absent from the diets of low-e
activities associated with producing food and families."
bringing it to cities, calling for massive
investments. The consequences are all the more One of the keys to enhancing urban food
critical where infrastructure and services such as security and safety is the improvement of
transport, storage, slaughterhouses and markets the food supply and distribution chain.
are already overstretched, which is the situation How does it work?
in most cities in developing countries. If th