Marielle Dubbeling

Stimulating urban producers’ innovation capacity, strengthening producer organisations and linking up farmer groups with research and extension will lead to more rapid evolution of safer and more sustainable urban farming systems. The RUAF Foundation therefore initiated the “From Seed to Table” programme (RUAF-FStT) in 2009, to support groups of poor urban producers in 17 partner cities to organise themselves, analyse market opportunities,
improve their production systems and develop short marketing chains for selected products, and enhance their access to credit and financing.