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Research on the health, social, economic and ecological impacts of urban agriculture is an important issue. Urban agriculture is a relatively young field of research and policy makers and urban agriculture practitioners are requesting more research data and M & E information as a basis for policy decisions and project design and management.

Important issues regarding M & E of urban agriculture are:

• The need for well integrated and multidisciplinary studies on urban agriculture on household, community and city level
• Enhanced use of participatory and qualitative methods and more attention to measuring the less tangible effects of urban agriculture (e.g. effects on community development, living climate, landscape, etcetera)
• Adaptation of available M & E methods in agriculture to the typical urban conditions and enhancing their gender sensitivity
• The need to develop standardized but low cost and easy to apply M & E methods, allowing comparative M & E studies in a larger number of cities and countries
• Linking more directly datagathering and analysis and the use of this information in policy making, action planning and implmentation.

• For a more extensive introduction and review of literature on, please go to state of the art review
• Go to RUAF publications for an overview of RUAF publications on this topic (most of which are available online). You may also view the articles in the Urban Agriculture Magazine on this topic
• Search the Bibliographic Database for other literature references, abstracts and online documents on this subject.