FORMULATING EFFECTIVE POLICIES ON URBAN AGRICULTURE

ISSN 1571-6244
No. 16, October 2006

UA Magazine is published three times a year by the Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), under the Cities Farming for the Future Programme, which is financed by DGIS, the Netherlands, and IDRC, Canada.

UA Magazine is translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic, and distributed in separate editions through the RUAF regional networks, and is also available on www.ruaf.org.

The RUAF Partners are

• Latin America: IPES Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible, Lima Peru; email: au@ipes.org.pe; Magazine in Spanish: www.ipes.org/au
• French Speaking West Africa: IAGU Institute Africain de Gestion Urbaine, Dakar, Senegal; email: moussa@iagu.org; Magazine in French: www.iagu.org/ruaf/ruafiagufr.php
• English Speaking West Africa: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-Ghana; email: o.cofie@cgiar.org |
  Website: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/africa/West/projects/RUAFII-CFF.htm
• East and Southern Africa: MDP Municipal Development Partnership (MDP); email: tmubvami@mdpafrica.org.zw | Website: www.mdpafrica.org.zw/urban_agriculture.html
• South and South East Asia: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-India; email: r.simmons@cgiar.org | Website: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/southasia/index.aspnc=9106&msid=119
• North Africa and Middle East: American University of Beirut, email: zm13@aub.edu.lb; Magazine in Arabic: www.ecosystems.org/esduhomepage.php
• China: IGSNRR Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; email: caijm@igsnrr.ac.cn; Magazine in Chinese: www.cnruaf.com.cn
• Coordination and Support: ETC Foundation; email: ruaf@etcnl.nl; Magazine in English: www.ruaf.org

Editors, No. 16
This issue has been edited by René van Veenhuizen (Responsible Editor) with the
ETC-UA team and the RUAF Partners.

Web Editing, Events, and Books
Marije Pouw and René van Veenhuizen

Administration
Ellen Radstake

Language Editor
Catharina de Kat-Reynen

Design, Layout and Printing
Koninklijke BDU

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