This section of the World Hunger Year website provides information on Community Food Security, CSA, Farmers' Markets, Community Gardens, Community Food Assesments and more. It provides introductions to the several subjects as well as links to policy initiaves, weblinks and related articles.

The CFSC is a non-profit, membership-based US coalition of over 600 organisations and individuals that focus on food and agriculture issues.

This website is a source of information about Community IPM in Asia.

COMPAS Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development is an international network of 22 development organisations in 10 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe committed to endogenous development in agriculture, health and NRM.

Connect Nutrition was founded to address the need for unique and innovative solutions to solve problems of inadequate nutrition, hunger, and food insecurity. Connect Nutrition works with organizations to create and develop policies, conduct research, and create nutrition programs meeting the needs of a variety of communities, particularly low-income populations. They offer various services such as technical assistance and monitoring and evaluation.

The Cornell Farm to School Program serves extension educators in New York State and develops strategies and disseminates information to increase the amount of locally grown food served in New York's schools, colleges and universities.

CTA Knowledge for Development is a portal of the website of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) that supports policy dialogue on science and technology for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Very intesting blog site that contains information on many topics concerning food and (urban) agriculture. It offers many links to other interesting websites, to events and publications in the area of “Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food

DOTT 07 is a year of art, design and community based projects devoted to enabling social innovation and make a positive difference to daily lives. Supported by the U.K. Design Council and regional economic development agency One North East, DOTT 07 seeks to enable new work by designers in real-life situations. Inspired by the question, ‘Who designs your life?’, Dott 07 focuses on grass roots community projects; but there are also projects involving more than seventy schools, plus exhibitions and events in museums, galleries and rural sites. All events explore how design can benefit our lives in meaningful ways.

Dott 07 projects set out to improve six aspects of daily life in practical ways. They deal with health issues, food, school, energy, tourism, and travel. Urban farming is one of the community projects.

Developing Countries Farm Radio Network is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in direct partnership with approximately 250 radio broadcasters in more than 35 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity.

The site http://www.developmentgateway.org/ is run by the not-for-profit Development Gateway Foundation in collaboration with a variety of cooperating organizations, since December 2003, this includes RUAF for the Food Security and Urban Development sites.

This website entails a free directory of sustainably-raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggsfrom stores, farms and restaurants in the United States and Canada.

Sandec is the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). Sandec's activities centre on problems of sustainable development in economically less developed countries. Its mandate is to assist in developing appropriate and sustainable water and sanitation concepts and technologies adapted to the different physical and socio-economic conditions prevailing in developing countries.

ECHO is a Christian non-profit organisation that gives free technical assistance to agricultural development workers and small farmers and gardeners in the developing world.

This website connects consumers with local growers, retailers, chefs, and food artisans through printed publications, websites, and events, enabling those relationships to grow and thrive in a mutually beneficial, healthful, and economically viable way.

With one small gesture, architect/artist/salon-owner/school-master Fritz Haeg made a great disruption to the "toxic uniformity" of suburbia. By convincing a suburban family in Salina, Kansas to tear up their manicured lawn and replace it with an edible garden, Fritz transformed a standard and consumptive lawn into something idiosyncratic and productive. Edible Estates questions assumptions of beauty in the American lawn, as well as the responsibility of private-space.
This website offers many interesting links to other websites on urban agriculture and offers video and radio broadcasts and newsarticles and events.

Edible San Francisco is a new quarterly magazine that promotes the abundance of local foods in the San Francisco area. This new magazine features stories on family farmers, fishmongers, food artisans, chefs, and other food-related businesses for their  dedication to using the highest quality, fresh, seasonal  foods)

Spanish website on how to preserve food items.

ELDIS is one in a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, UK, and aims to share information on development policy, practice and research. Currently, Eldis has over 16,000 on-line documents and information on 4500 organisations.

Strategic Environmental Planning and Management for the Peri-Urban Interface
Development Planning Unit, University College London. It aims to identify key components and principles of a workable strategic approach to planning and managing environmental dimensions of the rural-urban interface, which will benefit the poor. Next to case studies, papers and several links, you will also find information on events.

ESRI designs and develops the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. It is based on the belief that geography matters. It influences and connects our many cultures, societies, and ways of life. GIS technology can improve our quality of life and contributes in supporting more analytical decision making. GIS helps fight forest fires, determine new national boundaries during peace negotiations, find promising sites for fast-growing companies, rebuild cities around the world, support optimal land-use planning, route emergency vehicles, monitor rain forest depletion, contain oil spills, and perform countless other vital tasks every day. For the use of GIS for mapping urban agricultural activities on open space in cities for example click here.

The Information Network on Post-Harvest Operations was designed by FAO with the support and collaboration of GTZ and CIRAD. The main objective is to increase the development of activities of the global post- harvest sector for tropical agricultural products for a better access to technical data and an exchange of information among the different post harvest actors.

FAO Participation website is the website of the Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security (IWG-PA). The “Resources

Rural radio is a vital communication tool, particularly in Africa. Created and established more than three decades ago, this form of radio has become increasingly familiar, loved and used by the local populations.

Informs on how the member states of FAO view the problem of urban food security.

Food and Agricultural Research Management (FARM-Africa) is an international NGO that aims to reduce poverty through developing innovative approaches to NRM in Africa. Through its projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, it partners with marginal small-scale farmers and herders to improve the ways in which they use their land.

This website provides information on the challenges and opportunities of climate change, as well as suggested adaptations and mitigation measures which farmers could start considering. It contains fa

Farming Solutions is a website coordinated by ILEIA (Centre for Information on Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture), Oxfam, Greenpeace and Pesticide Action Network (PAN)-Africa, that brings examples of successful, environmentally-responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed.

The objective of the FarmStart Project is to support and encourage a new generation of farmers to develop locally based, ecologically sound and economically viable agricultural enterprises.
Successful farms make important contributions to the health and vibrancy of both rural and urban communities.

Federation of city farms and community gardens (FCFCG) is the representative body for city farms, community gardens and similar community-led organisations in the UK.

The Food Access Network currently consists of some 300 food projects working to improve the nutrition, health and wellbeing of their local communities. The Food Access Network provides vital support to these local projects through, for example, a quarterly newsletter, publications, information, events, and the Food Access Network database.

A Food Circle is a new way of conceiving of and organizing our agricultural and food systems. It links the many people involved in food production together in interdependent, holistic ways. When we conceive of our food system as a circle, we acknowledge that we are connected with every other person in that circle through the act of food production.
Practically, a Food Circle is concerned with promoting the consumption of safe, regionally grown food that will encourage sustainable agriculture and help to maintain farmers, who will sustain rural areas. While the concept sounds simple, it means that we must radically change the way we participate in the act of growing and consuming food.

This online Food Security Learning Centre was created to provide site visitors "with an in-depth look at common hunger and poverty issues facing many U.S. communities. The site also contains a Community Food Security section with subcategories pertaining to Community Supported Agriculture, Community Gardens, Food Policy Councils, Farmers' Markets, Farm to Cafeteria, and more. In addition, the Centre links to several funding opportunities, an extensive Hunger & Poverty Resource Guide, and current Action Alerts.

A project of the Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, CA, USA.

A Kenyan site containing  useful links to information on research grants for M.Sc. training in agriculture in East and Southern Africa (see also http://www.rockforum.org/).

The Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Forum is an on-line community whose members share experiences, identify resources, provide peer coaching and support and find collective solutions to food security and nutrition (FSN) issues, focusing on FSN policies.

Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA). HDRA is Europe's largest organic membership organisation. It is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. The site contains practical information on how to grow organically yourself, as well as news on everything touching organics. HDRA also has an overseas programme, divided into research and advisory activities, to help countries and organisations find information and resources on organic gardening.

This web site is dedicated to providing guidance for gardening with the purpose of maximizing nutrition. Only crops which are easy to grow in temperate regions, process easily, and make the most significant contributions to health are included.

GardenWorks (now Gardening Matters) is a program of The Green Institute.

The Global Forum on Agricultural Research is a multi-stakeholder initiative that contributes to eradicating poverty, achieving food security, and conserving and managing natural resources. It enhances national capacities to generate, adapt and transfer knowledge – including a feature in the most recent annual report based on an interview with a member of the PROLINNOVA International Support Team.

The Global Horticulture Initiative acts as a global facility for coordinated horticultural research that provides solutions towards increasing health, productivity and safety in sustainable environments, to uplift the quality of life of the poorest populations in the world.

It will contribute to improve interest, support and resources to the horticultural sector, public and private, from donors, research and development agencies, and decision makers.

Growing for Market is an American source of information about growing and selling vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and plants. GFM is a monthly magazine about small-scale farming, sustainable agriculture and farm direct marketing. It covers farmers markets, farm stands, Community Supported Agriculture, and selling locally to restaurants, supermarkets, natural food stores and florists. GFM covers cut flowers -- one of the most profitable crops for local growers -- in every monthly issue.

This month we have published a new FAO website, “Growing Greener Cities”, in English, French and Spanish. At present, the website includes information on:
• the contribution of UPH to food security, livelihoods, environmental protection, good governance and community development
• FAO’s five-point strategy for development of the UPH sector
• FAO projects for UPH development in Africa and Latin America
• the “International symposium on Urban and peri-urban horticulture” to be held in Dakar, Senegal (5-9 December 2010)

Land use policy offers a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. Local governments, private developers, and community groups can all work to create patterns of development that improve community health--by ensuring that farmers' markets and neighborhood grocery stores are supported, for instance, or by promoting sidewalks, parks and other environmental components that encourage physical activity.

HIV Development.org contains publications, articles on development and HIV/AIDS. The most recent publication is of December 2004. Publications are also downloadable in Chinese.

Funded by the US Department of Agriculture, is a information service on sustainable agriculture.

This site is for those who want to grow hydroponically but have found the cost of commercially available hydroponic equipment highly prohibitive. Here, you will find articles about the many different types of hydroponic systems, lighting for your garden and actual construction plans for hydroponic systems

This site is the work of a network of people, to have a forum and seek cooperation in the applications of the integrated biosystems approach in agriculture, industry, forestry and habitat.

The International Development Research Centre has put together a book on Urban Agriculture called 'Growing Better Cities', which is a synthesis of accumulated research experiences with urban agriculture throughout the developing world. The book presents lessons learned and a simple set of recommendations that could prove useful to governments, researchers, NGO's, community activists and others involved in the study or practice of UA.

The full text of the book is available free of charge on our website. It also leads the reader into a virtual web of case studies, analysis, discussion, and background papers that explores two decades of research into this important issue.

IFOAM is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic movement, uniting more than 750 member organizations in 108 countries.

You can subscribe for the IFPRI Training for Capacity Strengthening Program (STPC) newsletter at http://www.ifpri.org/training/train_newsletter.htm

The International Livestock Research Institute seeks to better lives through livestock. Its research theme “Enabling Innovation

Indigenous vegetables(IV) play an important role in the African diet, economy and environment. However, they have not featured significantly in the research agendas of international or local organisations, who have tended to focus on improved exotic

The Network on Gardens in Argentina "Red de Huertas" (in Spanish) is producing an electronic bulleting "INFOHUERTAS" aimed at linking community development and organic gardening.

Infonet-biovision.org is a web-based information tool offering trainers, extension workers and farmers mainly in Africa a quick access to up-to-date and locally relevant information in order to optimise their livelihoods in a safe, effective, and ecologically sound way.

InfoResources is a source of information on natural resources in international cooperation – focusing on agriculture, forestry and environment. InfoResources is operated jointly by three Swiss information services that are all experienced in finding and disseminating sound specialised information in an efficient manner. Information requests can be submitted via a request form on the website or by e-mail info@inforesources.ch. Examples of requests are available on the site. The service is free of charge.

Provides information on simplified hydroponic gardens, or gardens that use no energy other than human labour.

InterDev is an inter-active information service that began in 1999. It offers development practitioners validated references on experiences, techniques and methods in the fields of food processing, agro-ecological farming systems, urban agriculture and decentralised electricity supply.

The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) is a programme under the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), one of the 15 Future Harvest Centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Issuelab offers a website where nonprofit research is brought into focus. Every day nonprofits worldwide serve millions of people. IssueLab makes it easy to learn about and access the knowledge and analysis that these vital organizations collect and publish.

Just Food's mission is to help develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region by fostering understanding, communication and partnership among diverse groups concerned with farming, hunger and other issues related to food.

KFBG in Hong Kong, China is a 50 year old well established conservation organisation (NGO). It has 200 employees, 148 hectares of botanic garden, and receives annually ov

Kitchen Gardeners International is a nonprofit founded in Maine, USA with friends from around the world. Our mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of f

Learning For Sustainability is a new resource for NGOs and other community groups working to support multi-stakeholder learning processes. This guide to on-line resources highlights a number of activity areas that are prerequisites for social learning.

LEISA is the website of ILEIA (Centre for Information on Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture), an independent organisation that seeks to contribute to alleviating poverty by promoting agro-ecological approaches.

The LGA's mission (UK) is to be an effective, national representative organisation that promotes democratic and effective local government in the service and support of communities which are safe, prosperous, healthy and pleasant to live in; and which provides efficient support to member authorities and councillors. It contains a number of interesting items on allotment gardening in the UK.  The LGA has published the executive summary of the guide "Growing in the Community" which is the main output from the 1998 Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into the "Future for Allotments". To link directly to this section of the website: www.lga.gov.uk/lga/allotments/index.htm 

This internet service supports groups of local learners around the world to share both their expertise and their challenges in a virtual knowledge exchange. Learners produce ideas for progress through the synergy created by many diverse groups pooling their 'do-ledge', or capacity to do things, together.

The Livestock Production Programme (LPP) is one of ten research programmes funded by the Rural Livelihoods Department of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and is managed by NR International. The LPP funds, manages and promotes research aimed at improving people's livelihoods through livestock.

At Metrofarm, an online magazine, you can sign up to receive a free weekly newsletter. Tune in to the Food Chain Radio programme, and participate in online fora. The magazine’s latest issue has an interesting article on (pesticide) residues in some popular fruits and vegetables, and includes a "dirty dozen" list.

Contains useful papers on hydroponics, often in Spanish.

This large NGO manages rural development programmes in South India and promotes the Self-Help Affinity strategy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangladesh. It sees its prime role to be "Building Poor People's Institutions".

This web ring offers a large array of services and foodstuffs. The Natural-Products.Net is an information database on organic food, ingredients, seeds, grains, spices & agricultural products. It also acts a s a business-to-business trade place.

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a vision and strategic framework for Africa’s renewal. NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent, issues such as the escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalisation of Africa.

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group’s mission is to strengthen the work of its members by providing active support and assistance in achieving shared food system goals. NESAWG is a regional network of member organizations and individuals working together to create a more sustainable and secure regional food system -- one that is economically viable, environmentally sound and socially just and produces safe and healthful food.

Networked Intelligence for Development is a Toronto based network of independent consultants and trainers specializing in new media, information and communication technologies (ICTs), the creative industries and international development.

New Agriculturist online provides an update on the latest news and developments in tropical agriculture for a global audience. This latest issue (February 2007) focuses on horticulture in the city, including rooftop gardens, backyard enterprises and peri-urban plots that supply fresh produce to the world's cities whilst providing a good income for urban growers. Previous editions of the New Agriculturist can be found on the website under archives.

The "New Haven/Leon, Connecticut and Nicaragua, Sister City Project" is assisting over 100 families in both cites to produce vegetables and fruit in their neighborhoods. The project includes courses in nutrition, composting, IPM, and environmental stewardship.

Worldwatch Institute's Sustainable Agriculture Program highlights the benefits to farmers, consumers, and ecosystems that can flow from food systems that are flexible enough to deal with shifting weather patterns, productive enough to meet the needs of expanding populations, and accessible enough to support rural communities. The Nourishing the Planet project will assess the state of agricultural innovations—from cropping methods to irrigation technology to agricultural policy—with an emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and ecosystem health, as well as productivity.

This forum brought together over 500 participants from more than 80 countries. It was apparent that there are many currently unmet opportunities for alliance-building, networking, and sharing of information, resources, and people power. This is the official website of the Forum, which includes the “Declaration of Nyéléni

OISAT Info is a new and easy-to-read web-based information service on non-chemical pest management in the tropics directed towards the needs of smallholder farmers, both male and female, literate as well as illiterate. The information service presents preventive and curative methods of managing pests with the overarching goal of increasing the self-regulatory mechanism within agricultural systems, and reducing the use of synthetic pesticides. The structure of the information service builds on the logic of the users.

Website of the Organic Gardening Magazine.

This is a membership-based business association representing the organic industry in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Established in 1985 as the Organic Food Production Association of North America, the Organic Trade Association works to promote organic products in the marketplace and to protect the integrity of organic standards.

An Oxfam America report looks at how Cuba has successfully turned a severe food crisis into a sustained recovery in food production. Through a combination of sweeping reforms and innovations in ecological agriculture, Cuba's countryside has changed dramatically.

PAPUSSA is a 3 year collaborative research project between European and Asian partners funded by the European Union seeking to better understand the importance and nature of aquatic food production that occurs in and around some of the major cities of Southeast Asia.