Highlights: Children Eating Well in Cities

On December 3rd 2020, UNICEF, Cities Changing Diabetes, and EAT hosted a side session alongside EAT@Home to discuss children’s food and nutrition in urban settings. The event, attended by over 40 experts from the urban development, nutrition, youth, and environmental sustainability communities, was aimed at kickstarting collaboration around research, advocacy, and city-level programs. This highlight reel presents key questions raised as well as the main takeaways from the discussion.

UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2019 highlighted urbanization as one of the key global trends contributing to the changing face of malnutrition worldwide. As of 2018 an estimated 4 billion people, or 55 per cent of the global population, were living in urban areas. A third of them were children. Yet, cities and local actors are gaining importance, not merely as implementers of national policies, but as lighthouses for innovation, integrated approaches and community-led engagement. Recognizing the role that cities and city-level actors can play, UNICEF, Cities Changing Diabetes, and EAT have joined forces to work on an urban food and nutrition agenda that is fit for children.

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Find out more:
Cities investing in healthy and sustainable food environments for all children: https://cities-today.com/industry/cities-investing-healthy-sustainable-food-environments-children/

Children eating well in cities: A roadmap for action: https://www.unicef.org/documents/children-eating-well-cities-roadmap-action-support-nutritious-diets-and-healthy

Cities Leading the Way Towards Healthy Food Environments for Children: https://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/cities-leading-the-way-towards-healthy-food-environments-for-children/

Policy Brief: Making urban food environments fit for children: https://eatforum.org/content/uploads/2019/11/EAT-UNICEF-Urban-Food-Environments-Brief.pdf

Shaping urbanization for children: A handbook on child-responsive urban planning: https://www.unicef.org/reports/shaping-urbanization-children

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