Growing Cities Growing Food - city case studies

These are the 16 city case studies on Urban Agriculture, prepared for the international workshop "Growing Cities Growing food" in Havana, Cuba (October 1999.

City Case Study Accra

Accra: urban agriculture as an asset strategy, supplementing income and diets
Margaret Armar-Klemesu and Daniel Maxwell, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Cagayan de Oro

Urban agriculture in Cagayan de Oro: a favourable response of city government and NGOs
G.E. Potutan, W.H. Schnitzler, J.M. Arnado, L.G. Janubas and R.J. Holmer, Xavier University College of Agriculture, Periurban Vegetable Production Project (PUVeP),Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Cairo

Cairo: urban agriculture and visions for a "modern" city
Jörg Gertel, Professor at the Oriental Institut, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Said Samir, Roxy Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Dakar

Market-oriented urban agricultural production in Dakar
Alain Mbaye, Institut Sénégalais de Recherche Agronomique (ISRA) and Paule Moustier, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD),France

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Dar es Salaam

Urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam: providing for an indispensable part of the diet
Petra Jacobi, Jörg Amend and Suzan Kiango Urban Vegetable Promotion Project, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, supported by GTZ, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Harare

Urban agriculture in Harare: between suspicion and repression
Beacon Mbiba, University of Sheffield,Sheffield, United Kingdom

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Havana

Urban agriculture in the city of Havana: a popular response to a crisis
Mario Gonzalez Novo, Department of Urban Agriculture, Havana, Cuba and Catherine Murphy, The Institute for Food and Development Policy / Food First Oakland, USA

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Hubli-Dharwad

Waste recycling through urban farming in Hubli-Dharwad
Fiona Nunan , School of Public Policy, International Development Department,University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Jakarta

Jakarta: urban agriculture as an alternative strategy to face the economic crisis
Ning Purnomohadi, Environmental Impact Management Agency of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study La Paz

La Paz: urban agriculture in harsh ecological conditions
Petra Kreinecker, Institut für Ernährungswissenschaft, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Lima

NGO experiences in Lima targeting the urban poor through urban agriculture
Andres Dasso, Asociación Recursos para el Desarollo (REDE),Lima,Peru and Teobaldo Pinzas, ETC Andes,Lima,Peru

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study London

Urban agriculture in London: rethinking our food economy
Tara Garnett, National Food Alliance, London, United Kingdom

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Mexico City

Mexico City: the integration of urban agriculture to contain urban sprawl
Pablo Torres Lima, Luis Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico and Brenda I. García Uriza Community Co-ordinator of Miravalle (COCOMI, AC),Mexico City, Mexico

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Nairobi

Increasing food security through urban farming in Nairobi
Dick Foeken, Africa Study Centre,Leiden, The Netherlands and Alice Mboganie Mwangi, Unit of Applied Human Nutrition, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Shanghai

Shanghai: trends towards specialised and capital-intensive urban agriculture.
Cai Yi-Zhang, Director of the Shanghai Modern Agriculture Development Company, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China and Zhang Zhangen , Shanghai Modern Agriculture Development Company, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China.

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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City Case Study Sofia

Sofia: urban agriculture in an economy in transition.
Antoaneta Yoveva, Architect and Urban Planner, Sustainable World Foundation (SWF), Sofia, Bulgaria Boriana Gocheva, Economist, Sofia, Bulgaria Galya Voykova, Landscape architect, Sofia, Bulgaria Boris Borissov, Al Spassov, Medical Doctor.

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

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