Deepa Joshi

Deepa Joshi is the Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead at WLE and International Water Management Institutes (IWMI). A feminist political ecologist by training, her research has analysed shifts in environmental policies and how these restructure contextually complex intersections of gender, poverty, class, ethnicity and identity. Her interests lie in connecting gender and environmental discourse to local capacity-building initiatives and advocating for policy-relevant change across developmental institutions.

Gordon Prain

Gordon Prain is a social anthropologist and independent consultant who advises Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) Centers on issues related to urban and rural food systems and food security, gender, and agricultural change processes. Most recently he has been advising a team of CGIAR researchers in the preparation of a global initiative on the contribution of urban and peri-urban agri-food systems to city resilience.

The Role of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Urban Resilience Recording

Urban households predominantly depend on foods grown from rural and peri-urban areas. Urban agriculture is small-scale and informal, resulting in unstable production and inadequate to meet the growing demands. As a result, poor, vulnerable, and marginalized households in urban areas regularly face food insecurity issues, and they are nutritionally deprived, despite food-related expenses being their significant expenditure.

Tiffany M. Tran

Tiffany Tran is a Vietnamese-American architect and urban designer who is passionate about inclusive and resilient cities. She approaches urban development from a people-centric lens that integrates urban planning, development economics, and environmental justice. Her policy areas of focus include urban poverty, urban informality, public space, mobility and transportation, and climate resilience.

Anna Marie Karaos

Anna Marie Karaos is the Associate Director of John J Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues, a non-government organization specializing in advocacy-oriented research on issues affecting the urban poor, farmers, fisherfolk, and children in the Philippines. She is also a faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Marino Deocariza

Marino Deocariza is an urban planner from Oxfam GB and Team Lead of Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance (TA) Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience in Selected Asian Cities (Subproject 3). This TA project is implemented in eight cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Philippines which aims to empower poor and vulnerable communities to have stronger voice, agency, and active involvement in tackling the impacts of climate change.