Required readings

• Gertel J. and S. Samir, 2000.  “Cairo: Urban Agriculture and Visions for a ‘Modern’ Cityâ€?.  In: Growing cities, growing food: Urban agriculture on the policy agenda. A reader on urban agriculture. N. Bakker et al, ed. DSE, Germany.  (Go to http://www.ruaf.org/node/77; read in particular pp. 217 – 227).
• Mbiba, B., 2000.  “Urban Agriculture in Harare: Between Suspicion and Repressionâ€?.  In: Growing cities, growing food: Urban agriculture on the policy agenda. A reader on urban agriculture. N. Bakker et al, ed. DSE, Germany.  (Go to http://www.ruaf.org/node/80; read in particular pp. 294 – 297).
• Three case studies published as part of the “Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Developmentâ€? thematic website, within the In Focus collection, prepared by the Urban Poverty and Environment Program of IDRC.
  Dar es Salaam: Click Here
  Governador Valadares: Click Here
  Quito: Click Here 
• De Zeeuw, H., 2004.  “Handout: Local Factors Constraining and Facilitating UA Developmentâ€?, elaborated for the Anglophone Africa Regional Training Course on Urban Agriculture Nairobi, Kenya (8– 26 March, 2004).

References

• Jac Smit, Joe Nasr and Annu Ratta, Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities (unpublished second edition, first published by UNDP), Chapter 9, “Constraints to Urban Agricultureâ€?. 
• N.I. Faruqui, C.A. Scott and L. Raschid-Sally, “Confronting the Realities of Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Lessons Learned and Recommendations,â€? in C.A. Scott, N.I. Faruqui, and L. Raschid-Sally, ed., Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Confronting the Livelihood and Environmental Realities (Wallingford, Ox., and Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing, 2004). 
• UN Medium Population Projections (1998), quoted in: “Managing Health Risks to Develop Wastewater into a Valuable Resource and Assetâ€?, No. 3, part of a series of 5 Policy Briefs on Peri-urban Aquaculture, ed. Marielle Dubbeling. Stirling University (Scotland, UK), DFID and the EC, July 2006. 12 pages. www.papussa.org.