Marielle Dubbeling and Gunther Merzthal

In: Cities Farming for the Future - Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities

Urban agriculture relates to a variety of urban issues, like urban poverty, land use planning, waste management, food securiy, economic development, public health, and community development. Many stakeholders can be identified who play a role and who (should) have a say in planning and development of urban agriculture and related activities, like input provision, vegetable production, aquaculture, livestock production, processing and marketing. To increase the contribution of urban agriculture to sustainable urban development requires involvement in planning and policy making of these different stakeholders. Multi-stakeholder processes dealing with urban agriculture are of recent nature. The lessons learned in the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food security (RUAF) are described.