Urban Agriculture Magazine
No 8, December 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, Chinese and Arabic, and distributed in separate editions through regional networks.

Editorial Board

• Urban Management Programme-Latin America and the Caribbean (UMP-LAC), Quito, Ecuador; Mr Alain Santandreu; e-mail alain@pgu-ecu.org: Magazine in Spanish: www: http://www.ipes.org/aguila/
• Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (IAGU), Dakar, Senegal, Ms Ndeye Fatou Gueye;e-mail iagurau@enda.sn : Magazine in French;
• Municipal Development Programme (MDP) - East and Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe;Mr Shingirayi Mushamba, e-mail: smushamba@mdpesa.org
• Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China; Mr Jianming Cai, e-mail: caijm@igsnrr.ac.cn ; Magazine in Chinese;
• Centre for Environment and Development in the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), Cairo, Egypt, Mr Ismail El Bagouri; e-mail: ibagouri@cedare.org.eg  Magazine in Arabic;
• IWMI-India, Hyderabad, India, Ms Stephanie Buechler, e-mail: s.buechler@cgiar.org
• The Urban Agriculture Network (TUAN), Washington, USA. Mr Jac Smit; e-mail: urbanag@compuserve.com
• ETC - Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF), Leusden, the Netherlands; Mr Henk de Zeeuw: email: ruaf@etcnl.nl
• Ms Dagmar Kunze, FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF), Ghana
• Mr Luc Mougeot, International Development Research Council (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada;
• Mr Gordon Prain, CIP- Sustainable Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (SIUPA), Peru.

Editors No. 8

This issue has been compiled by René van Veenhuizen (responsible editor), Stephanie Buechler and Wilfrid Hertog, and the RUAF partners.

Resonsible web edition

Lucy Browne, René van Veenhuizen

Administrations

Michael Baumeister

Design and Layout

Jan Hiensch, Leusden

Language Editor

Amunda Salm, Wageningen

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