By Marielle Dubbeling and Henk de Zeeuw (ETC Urban Agriculture). With contributions from T. Otchere Larbi (IWMI Ghana), G. Merzthal and A. Santandreu (IPES), 2007, RUAF Foundation.

This first working paper gives an overview of lessons learned under the Cities Farming for the Future programme with Multi-stakeholder Policy Formulation and Action Planning (MPAP). It discusses the importance of interactive and participatory processes of policy formulation and action planning, presents the MPAP process and the different steps to be taken, and highlights lessons learned thus far by RUAF partners and several other organisations. In subsequent working papers the elements of the MPAP will be dealt with in more detail.