This video on Urban Agriculture has been produced to facilitate a greater understanding of urban agriculture among policy-makers, urban planners, NGOs, sectoral organisations and other people who can make a contribution to the integration of urban agriculture into urban policies, plans and development programmes.
The video has been produced by ETC RUAF in 2001 and has been co-financed by SIDA. The video is in English, but is also available in French, Spanish and Arabic. Please contact ruaf@etcnl.nl for copies of the video in other languages. Please click on the images below to start the English video-clips.
Background information
Part 1-6 of the video (approximately 23 minutes) are of special interest for an audience less familiar with the subject matter and that requires an introduction to it. This part of the video shows the different forms of urban agriculture that can be encountered and the type of people involved in it. It also shows the potential contribution of urban agriculture to enhancing urban food security, local economic development and poverty alleviation, to sustainable urban environmental management, as well as illuminating the possible health and environmental risks associated with agriculture in the city.
Part 7-10 of the video (approximately 22 minutes) are titled “From awareness to action" and presents two examples - one in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other in Cuenca, Ecuador - of local processes of situation analysis, policy development, planning and action regarding urban agriculture.
Part 1 of the video on introduction and location of urban agriculture
Part 2 of the video on market orientation of urban agriculture
Part 3 of the video on food security aspects of urban agriculture
Part 4 of the video on the economic impact of urban agriculture
Part 5 of the video on social aspects of urban agriculture
Part 6 of the video on health and ecological aspects of urban agriculture
Part 7 of the video on a case study in Cuenca, Ecuador
Part 8 of the video shows the final part of the case study on Cuenca, Ecuador
Part 9 of the video on a case study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Part 10 of the video on the final part of the case study in Dar es Salaam
Small urban producer organisations: key partners for sustainable development (2006), copyright @ FAO-Food for Cities Initiative, ETC Urban Agriculture, IPES (Peru) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada). Produced by World Report Foundation, The Netherlands.
The video advocates and analyses the specific support to be provided to (peri)urban farmer organisations by governments, civil society organisations and international organisations respectively. It will do so by drawing on four case studies from Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Dakar (Senegal), Hyderabad (India) and Rosario (Argentina). The video is also available in French and Spanish on request.
More information on the project Social Organisations of Urban and Periurban Producers can be found here.
Part 1 Contribution to better cities
Part 2 Successful examples and lessons learned
Part 3 Empowerment
This 5-minute video illustrates the Rosario’s urban agriculture programme, the reasons for its development, the types of activities it promotes, the actors involved, the results achieved and the perspectives for further development.
The video was produced by Rosario’s Municipal Urban Agriculture programme, with financial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada), and presented at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver (2006).
Please click on this link http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/video/ to watch videos by Michael Levenston on:
Click here to go to the slideshow City sprouting from The New York Times
This DVD contains an 18 min video on a study visit to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. The video is produced by ETC Urban Agriculture, CTA and The Peoples Garden Centre.
Please watch the slideshow below to view some picture of urban agriculture from Vancouver (by Joe Nasr and Diana Lee-Smith).
Images from Toronto by Joe Nasr and Diana Lee Smith
Video-clip (2006) elaborated by the DFID Livestock Production Programme and Natural Resources International Ltd, with financial support from DFID and IDRC-Canada.
Recycling realities in African cities; towards safe wastewater use in agriculture
Video produced by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (2006).
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where sanitation infrastructure does not keep pace with city growth, the use of polluted water for urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is a common reality. While UPA puts consumers at risk, it also plays an important role in food supply and job creation. The question is how to preserve the benefits while minimising the risks? This short video clip (3 min 30 sec) gives voice to the people most closely involved, to articulate their own solutions to the challenges they face.
Realisation: Manuel Henseler and Jacques Maradan
Concept: Pay Drechsel and Liqa Raschid
Three parts of a video clip (in French) on Urban Agriculture in Bukavu (DR Congo) made by DIOBASS, a local NGO operating since 1992 in the rural and peri-urban areas of the Kivu province in the eastern part of DR Congo. The Diobass Platform was established by local resource persons for the survival of the community. The Diobass Platform brings farmers and scientists together for sustainable
development research and action.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
This video was produced by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (2007) and its partners as a training and awareness video for the street food sector.
Cambodias capital Phnom Penh enjoys a beautiful setting on the Mekong. The river provides both transport and income for the city's one million population. Now another, unlikely, stretch of water - Beung Cheung Ek Lake which receives 80% of the city's sewage - is offering economic opportunities for three and a half thousand lower income families through the cultivation of the edible aquatic plant - Morning Glory - which is widely consumed by the city's expanding population. See below a link to this video which was produced in conjunction with Hands On Films, the Papussa project's Albert Salamanca (University of Durham UK), Khuong Khov, Sok Daream and Sok Seyha (Royal University of Agriculture, Phnom Penh) and DFID (Dept for International Development UK).
Produced in 2008 by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and its partners as a knowledge sharing aid.
Agriculture in the City, Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima - Peru)
Feature of "Haciendo Peru" on Peru TV about the organic gardens and the raising of small animals implemented in Villa Maria del Triunfo by various institutions.
Community gardens in Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima - Peru)
Feature about the community gardens developed by IPES in Villa Maria del Triunfo, produced by the television program "Somos Agro" of Peru TV in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Slideshow on issues in urban agriculture on the website of IDRC
Slideshow on lessons learned in urban agriculture on the website of IDRC
Une évocation de l'exploitation de Rahmé, agricultrice à Beyrouth. Les atouts de l'agriculture urbaine sont-ils une réponse aux enjeux environnementaux contemporains? Un reportage destiné au concours "Planete reporter" organisé par Le Monde.fr et Youtube
Climate change, drought, population growth - they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly vulnerable to an oil shortage, as Cuba found out 20 years ago. By means of organic urban agriculture Cuba reportedly has been able to provide four million tonnes of vegetables a year making the country 90% self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables.
Please watch the video here.
First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. This new garden was planted in the Spring of 2009 with the help of local elementary school children and has yielded a constant supply fresh produce for the First Family and White House events.
This video tackles the very sensitive issue of raising animals in the city. Policy makers often regard small ruminants as a nuisance rather than an economic opportunity. The video was shot in Beirut.