Beacon Mbiba and René van Veenhuizen

In: UA Magazine 4 - Integration of UPA in urban planning

Formal recognition and integration of urban agriculture into urban planning and city development has hardly been changed despite an increase in presence and attention. Some countries have witnessed a reduction in prohibitive or anti-urban agriculture interventions, but the transformation of city responses from prohibitive models towards permissive or enabling ones has hardly materialised nor been formalised. The perceptions and responses to urban agriculture among actors in a certain city at any given time are not consistent. It is argued that there is a need for a flexible approach and differential targeting to further stimulate integration.

Interviews

Planners and policy-makers of Marilao, the Philippines; Accra, Ghana, and Lusaka, Zambia were asked about urban agriculture and planning related issues. Quotations from the interviews are given grouped under questions and issues, related to the issues discussed in the editorial.