Jianming, Cai, Zhenshan Yang, Shenghe Liu, Ming Liu, Hua Guo, Shanshan Du

Urban agriculture development in China is still dominated by municipal and local government, and other stakeholders play a comparatively less important role. This situation is changing however. The MPAP (Multi-stakeholder Policy Development and Action Planning) and FStT (From Seed to Table) programmes of the RUAF Foundation have contributed to a fundamental shift over the last ten years, particularly in the RUAF China network cities, which include three pilot cities and ten dissemination cities. Minhang district in Shanghai is a good example of a newly emerging approach in China of government-led, but participatory urban agriculture
development.