Urban agriculture on the policy agenda (E-conference - August 21 - September 30, 2000)

Objectives

• To promote the integration of urban agriculture into national and - especially - municipal sectoral policies;
• To stimulate local initiatives regarding identification and formulation of programmes and projects on urban agriculture in developing countries;
• To increase awareness among policy-makers of the role of UPA in addressing urban food insecurity

Participants

The conference invited everybody interested in urban and peri-urban agriculture and especially urban planners and municipalities, researchers and practitioners to participate by sharing needs, research results, questions, and project ideas.

Central themes

Participants had the opportunity to discuss, present ideas, and suggest needs about three themes.

• Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA), household food security and nutrition;
• UPA, health and the urban environment;
• UPA and urban planning

Information market

As part of the conference website an information market was maintained where participants and other interested people could find other articles, papers, case studies and other documents of interest. The market also provided information on relevant websites, journals and resource organisations as well as a link to a discussion on training needs in UPA.