This section contains slideshows and videos on urban agriculture. Please click on the links below to go to the requested page.
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.
On this website, the first part of the video (23 minutes of 45 minutes in total) is shown. 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 1-5 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 6-9 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 social aspects of urban agriculture
Part 5 of the video on health and ecological aspects of urban agriculture
Part 6 of the video on a case study in Cuenca, Ecuador
Part 7 of the video shows the final part of the case study on Cuenca, Ecuador
Part 8 of the video on a case study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Part 9 of the video on the final part of the case study in Dar es Salaam
Here you can watch a slideshow on different types of urban agriculture. The slideshow has been developed by Hans-Peter Reinders and Femke Hoekstra (ETC Urban Agriculture/RUAF). Please click on the forward and backward buttons at the bottom of the slideshow to move the slides.
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.
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:
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.
