Joanna Wilbers, René van Veenhuizen and Cecilia Castro

In: UA Magazine 17 - Strengthening Urban Producers' Organisations

Increasingly, local authorities have come to understand the role urban agriculture can play in sustainable development of their cities, especially in eradicating hunger and poverty. Urban producers’ organisations are seen as important actors in this process and seek to represent their members in various fora (e.g. in policy dialogue, in project planning) and as a channel to supply technical assistance and other services to their members.