Urban Agriculture Magazine
No 6, March 2002

The UA Magazine is published by the Resource Centre for Urban Agriculture (RUAF), a Programme co-ordinated by ETC Netherlands and financed by DGIS, the Netherlands, and IDRC, Canada. The UA Magazine is published 3 times a year, and is translated into French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese, and distributed in separate editions through regional networks.

Editorial Board

• Marielle Dubbeling, Urban Management Programme-Latin America and the Caribbean, Quito, Ecuador
• Ndèye Fatou Gueye, Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (IAGU), Dakar, Senegal
• Shingirayi Mushamba, Management Development Programme - East and Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
• Cia Jianming, Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China
• Ismael CEDARE, Cairo, Egypt
• Stephanie Buechler, IWMI, Hyderabad, India
• Jac Smit,TUAN, Washington, USA
• Dagmar Kunze, FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF), Ghana
• Luc Mougeot, IDRC, Canada
• Gordon Prain, CIP- Sustainable Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (SIUPA), Peru
• Henk de Zeeuw, ETC - Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF), the Netherlands

Editors No. 6

This issue has been compiled by René van Veenhuizen (responsible editor), together with Moniek van Hintum
Guesteditors: Eric Goewie, The Netherlands; Yilma Getachew, Ethiopia and The Spanish Edition Editorial Group consists of: Vilda Figueroa, Cuba; Patricio Yañes, Chile; Mario Gonzalez Novo, Cuba; Alain Santandreu, Uruguay.

Web Editing

Lucy Browne and René van Veenhuizen

Administrations

Sonja Slingerland and Lucy Browne

Design and Layout

Jan Hiensch, Leusden

Language Editor

Amunda Salm, Wageningen

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