Editorial: Trees and Cities - Growing together

Cecel Konijnendijk, Michelle Gauthier and René van Veenhuizen

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

While human societies have largely been rural over the years, currently the majority of the world’s population lives in cities and towns. Increasingly land is needed for urban areas to cater for the inputs and outputs (the urban footprint), with often a detrimental effect on forests and other green areas. Especially in the developing world, where most (emerging) megacities are located, managing urban populations will be one of the main challenges of our time.

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Linear Urban Agriculture

Jac Smit, TUAN

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Accessing 'the commons' for food security, a healthier environment and community development.

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Agroforestry in Periurban Cities of Abia State, Nigeria

Stella N. Odurukwe

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Abia is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and is located in the southeastern geopolitical zone of the country. The state encompasses two main urban cities, namely Aba and Umuahia, and many other periurban cities such as Bende, Ohafia, Isikwuato, Uzuakoli, Mbawsi and Obehie. These areas have attained the status of periurban either as a result of their nearness to the larger cities Aba and Umuahia or as a result of being local government headquarters.

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Promoting the Integration of Agroforestry in Urban and Periurban Kisumu

Sammy Carsan, Geroge Wesonga and Miriam Wambugu

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

The dramatic increase in the urban population of Kisumu demands corresponding attention to food, fuel and shelter. Improving the quality of life thus calls for design strategies which include agroforestry.

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Urban Gardening on the Small Islands of the Pacific

Randy Thaman

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Pacific Island countries historically have been almost entirely dependent on subsistence and commercial agricultural, wildland and fisheries production in rural areas as the foundation for sustainable development. Today, however, these small-island states are among the most rapidly urbanising areas of the world.

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Urban Forestry in China: Status and Prospects

Chunjiang Liu, Xiaohui Shen, Pisheng Zhou, Shengquan Che, Yanling Zhang and Guangrong Shen

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Over the last 20 years, a rapid process of urbanisation has taken place in China due to increasing economic development. Between 1983 and 2003, the number of cities and towns in China increased 2.5 times to about 50,000, and the urban population reached the level of about 40% of the total population in the country.

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Fodder Shrubs for Increasing the Incomes of (Peri)urban Livestock Owners

Charles Wambugu and Steven Franzel

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

In Kenya, there are about 650,000 smallholder dairy farmers and most are near cities and towns, where milk demand is high and marketing costs are relatively low. Milk is highly perishable, which is a primary reason why it is produced in and around urban areas.

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Urban Fodder Forests in The Gambia

Yemi Akinbamijo

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

There is a growing presence of new animal genetic resources in West African cities geared to boost the local production base for meat and milk. Access to good quality feeds and supplements is becoming difficult for the farmers.

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Grazing Animals as Park Managers

Inger Ledin and Anna Jonasson

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Interest in using grazing animals in the management of parks and other urban green areas has grown in Sweden in recent years. Through grazing and trampling these animals create the conditions for a rich flora and fauna. This study was undertaken to document the use of grazing animals for management of urban green areas in Swedish municipalities.

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Multipurpose Plantations as a Tool for Periurban Agroforestry

Anne Oosterbaan

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Multifunctional plantations offer a valuable contribution to mixed ways of periurban agriculture and forestry. They exist of a combination of trees with agriculture and produce a variety of products, offering a kind of nature citizens ask for.

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Designing Spaces to Work the Land and Build Communities

Antonio Lattuca, Raúl Terrile, Ricardo Kingsland, Pablo Abalos, Sabrina Cáceres, Carina Tamagno, Elio Di Bernardo, Laura Bracalenti, Laura Lagorio and Virginia Lamas

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

The experience described here is part of the inter-institutional and participatory research-action project called "Optimization of the use of vacant land for Urban Agriculture through participatory planning and management programs, to promote food security and participatory municipal governance". This project has been carried out with the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Urban Management Program, supported by IPES and IDRC.

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Urban Forestry Development in Beijing: A Historical Perspective

Jianming CAI , Tingting HU, Liou XIE, Yingli GUO

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Urban forestry is often regarded as a key ecological asset of a city. Each year many efforts are put into urban afforestation in China to make its cities more attractive and liveable. In the case of Beijing, this is even more obvious, particularly since the city is aiming to host 'green Olympics' in 2008.

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Building a Sustainable Urban Forest

Terry Mock

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

In the United States it is estimated that 90 percent of the entire population now lives within the boundaries of what is commonly called the "urban forest" - a term used to describe the sum total of all vegetation growing in urban and community areas, including the city centre, city residential, suburbs and suburban fringe.

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Economics and Public Value of Urban Forests

Kathleen L. Wolf

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Scientific understanding of how urban trees, forests and green space benefit people has expanded substantially in recent years to include social, environmental and economic domains. Despite increasing scientific evidence, there is a lag in policy response in many municipalities.

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The Policy, Legislative and Institutional Framework for Urban Forestry in Zimbabwe

Makanatsa Makonese and Shingirayi Mushamba

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

The concept of urban forestry in Zimbabwe is applicable to pockets of forested plots that remain in the urban areas, as well as to newly established woodlots and vegetated parks for recreational and aesthetic purposes. Urban forestry also covers the planting and maintenance of ornamental trees, shrubs and bushes along the main streets, roads and avenues, by private residents to beautify their homes, and in undeveloped areas.

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Urban Greening and Health: merging the issues in Kenya

Dennis Osino and Paul S. Opanga

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

A rapid increase in rural to urban migration has resulted in serious soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and deteriorating health and safety conditions, which have consequently led to food insecurity and ultimately extreme poverty in Kenyan cities such as Nairobi and Kisumu.

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Community forests in North East England

Clive Davies, Jonathan Scurlock

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

The Community Forest programme in England, announced in 1988, started as an experimental initiative by the Countryside Agency and the Forestry Commission, with an ambitious vision for the creation of well-wooded landscapes in and around major urban areas to be used for work, wildlife, recreation and education.

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Colophon

Urban Agriculture Magazine
No 13, December 2004
ISSN 1571-6244

The UA Magazine is published by the Resource Centre for Urban Agriculture (RUAF), a Programme co-ordinated by ETC Foundation and financed by DGIS, the Netherlands, and IDRC, Canada. The UA Magazine is published 3 times a year, and is translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic, and distributed in separate editions through regional networks.

Editorial Board

• Mr. Gunther Merzthal, Urban Management Programme-Latin America and the Caribbean (UMP-LAC), Quito, Ecuador; e-mail: gunther@pgu-ecu.org; Magazine in Spanish; www: http://www.ipes.org/aguila/
• Ms Ndeye Fatou Gueye, Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (IAGU), Dakar, Senegal; e-mail: iagurau@enda.sn; Magazine in French
• Mr Shingirayi Mushamba, Municipal Development Programme (MDP) - East and Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe; e-mail: smushamba@mdpesa.org
• Mr Jianming Cai, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China; e-mail: caijm@igsnrr.ac.cn; Magazine in Chinese
• Ms Stephanie Buechler, IWMI-India, Hyderabad, India; e-mail: s.buechler@cgiar.org
• Mr Jac Smit, The Urban Agriculture Network (TUAN), Washington, USA; e-mail: urbanag@compuserve.com
• Ms Dagmar Kunze, FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF), Ghana
• Mr Luc Mougeot, International Development Research Council (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada
• Mr Gordon Prain, CIP- Sustainable Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (SIUPA), Peru
• Mr Henk de Zeeuw, ETC Foundation – Urban Agriculture, Leusden, the Netherlands

Editors No. 13

This issue has been compiled by René van Veenhuizen (responsible editor), together with Cecil Konijnendijk of woodSCAPE Consult and Michelle Gauthier of the Forestry Department, FAO.

Web Editing and Books

Dorine Rüter and René van Veenhuizen

Administrations

Nathalie Rietman

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