Case Studies

Old town of Quito
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Quito, Ecuador: pioneering food as part of urban resilience

Quito is one of the very few cities to have institutionalised food within its urban resilience strategy. With a long history of urban agriculture and food system assessments, Quito has developed resilience capacities
to address multiple shocks and stresses.

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Nursery
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Forest gardens and community forests

In Chad, farmers and traditional herders have planted a million trees to make up forest gardens and community forests in a unique agro-foresty initiative. Agro-forestry helps mitigate the impact of climate change. 

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Oslo Vahlsgade at the Botanical Garden Credits Berit Roald NTB Scanpix
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Policy on open stormwater in Oslo

The Oslo municipality policy on stormwater has turned out to be a game changer for the city's green spaces and water management. 

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Cattle in the savannah
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Controlled intensive grazing in the savannah

Controlled, intensive grazing is being promoted to regenerate vast savannah grasslands in parts of Africa. In this practice, herds of domesticated livestock are kept in one location for a certain duration to intensively graze the grasses and other vegetation, trampling and break down the soil and vegetation. The herd is moved to another location after some days and the intensively-grazed plot is allowed to regenerate for a few months.

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