RUNRES: The rural-urban nexus: Establishing a nutrient loop to improve city region food systems.

• Direct beneficiaries : Private entreprises, local municipalities, local organisations,
• End beneficiaries: smallholder farmers and urban underserved communities.

• Improved control of nutrient flows and recycling of nutrients across the rural-urban nexus.
• The development of locally suitable solutions- private enterprise, public investment, public/private partnerships, and civic science that will enable sustainable sanitation and waste-recycling innovations.
• Increased access and use of locally sources soil amendments that will improve sustainable local agriculture.
• Facilitate an enabling policy environment for the scaling of ad diffuse selected innovations in partnership with policymakers and practitioners as well as beyond the RUNRES focus regions.

Risultati principali attesi:  

• Waste collection, transport, and processing is improved.
• Pathways are established to increase local agricultural production with waste-recycled input products.
• Best practices and knowledge are defined and scaling partners are engaged to diffuse them at local and regional level.
• A network among agri-food system actors is established to implement food value chain innovations.

Risultati fasi precedenti:   The implementation of a transdisciplinary process requires the co-development of activities and outputs with relevant stakeholders in each of the four city region food systems. As such baselines for the first phase will be developed during the first year of the project implementation.