“Urban Food Hives is a partnership between SecondMuse and Oxfam global to build urban ecosystems that will support regenerative, equitable, and nourishing food systems within cities. Food systems are complex and  interconnected. Transforming urban food systems requires an approach that engages  and builds entire ecosystems that can support a new vision for the future of food.”

And Projects worked with Oxfam and SecondMuse to develop methodology and approaches to building different teams capacity and systems responses in varying contexts - different cities around the world with significant food insecurity.

We worked together to design and deliver a series of interrelated initiatives:

1. Urban Food Hives: Systems design toolkit

2. 18 week design capacity building with Ugandan, Nigerian and Kenyan country teams to develop system responses and design capacity

3. Uganda: Design Intensive - Identifying system interventions and designing pilot programs

4. Manila: Design Intensive - Impact evaluation and scaling up

“Equipping food entrepreneurs with tools to grow food and fight hunger”

We are also redoubling our efforts to catalyze innovations in food systems through the Urban Food Hives initiative. In partnership with SecondMuse and partners in six cities across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, the initiative equips women and youth food entrepreneurs with the tools to grow, process, and distribute food in an equitable and sustainable manner—including a favorable policy environment as well as access to capital, a strong workforce, sufficient infrastructure, and open markets.

The initiative also aims to help consumers in urban and peri-urban centers access nutritious and affordable food. The big vision of the Urban Food Hives is to spur a movement around the world and create replicable and scalable models of what is possible to transform the future of food systems to be climate resilient, nourishing, and equitable.”