Urban Agriculture development in Minhang, Shanghai

Jianming, Cai, Zhenshan Yang, Shenghe Liu, Ming Liu, Hua Guo, Shanshan Du

Urban agriculture development in China is still dominated by municipal and local government, and other stakeholders play a comparatively less important role. This situation is changing however. The MPAP (Multi-stakeholder Policy Development and Action Planning) and FStT (From Seed to Table) programmes of the RUAF Foundation have contributed to a fundamental shift over the last ten years, particularly in the RUAF China network cities, which include three pilot cities and ten dissemination cities. Minhang district in Shanghai is a good example of a newly emerging approach in China of government-led, but participatory urban agriculture
development.