Here you can find three state of the art reviews on local economic development.

1) Economic Impact of Urban and Periurban Agriculture

Rachel A. Nugent, Ph.D. (National Institute of Health, Bethesda, United States)¹

2) Micro enterprise Development in Urban Agriculture²

Robert J. Holmer (Xavier University, College of Agriculture, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines)

3) Marketing of urban and periurban horticultural products³

Dr Hubert de Bon (CIRAD, Fruit and Horticultural Crops Department, France)

¹ This paper was published in the Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture, that was produced by ETC-RUAF and published by CTA, Wageningen, the Netherlands in 2001. At that moment in time the author was working with theeconomic and social development department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

² This paper was first published in: Proceedings of the expert workshop on Appropriate Methodologies for Urban Agriculture Research, Policy development, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation October 1- 5, 2001 Nairobi, Kenya

³ The text presented in the pdf-document is the second part of a paper titled “Urban and periurban horticulture in Africa and Asia: characterisation of the systems and issues of sustainability