Food Security & Nutrition

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

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 07/06/2006 - 12:07

Edited by René van Veenhuizen (2006). Published by RUAF Foundation, IDRC and IIRR.

 

Gardens of Hope. Urban Micro-farming as a Complementary Strategy for Mitigation of the HIV-AIDS Pandemic.

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Mon, 01/16/2006 - 16:22

Proceedings and papers of the study visit and workshop that took place from 17 to 25 August 2005 in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

Organised by:
  • Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), ETC-Foundation, Leusden, the Netherlands
  • Abalimi Bezekhaya, Cape Town, South Africa
  • EU-ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Ede, the Netherlands

The proceedings can be found here. The seperate papers are listed in and accesible through the table below.

Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 12:28

In conjunction with Sida, ETC Netherlands, TUAN and other organisations, "An Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture" has been produced. It contains 16 themes with State of the Art introductions. This Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture contains a comprehensive literature overview in 17 chapters, each with a "state of the art" overview followed by literature references with abstracts.

Un hectare à Beyrouth

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 16:41

Une évocation de l'exploitation de Rahmé, agricultrice à Beyrouth. Les atouts de l'agriculture urbaine sont-ils une réponse aux enjeux environnementaux contemporains? Un reportage destiné au concours "Planete reporter" organisé par Le Monde.fr et Youtube

Growing Better Cities: The Issue

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:21

Slideshow on issues in urban agriculture on the website of IDRC

Inside the White House: The Kitchen Garden

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 10:49

First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. This new garden was planted in the Spring of 2009 with the help of local elementary school children and has yielded a constant supply fresh produce for the First Family and White House events.

The vegetable gardeners of Havana

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 10:43

Climate change, drought, population growth - they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly vulnerable to an oil shortage, as Cuba found out 20 years ago. By means of organic urban agriculture Cuba reportedly has been able to provide four million tonnes of vegetables a year making the country 90% self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables.

Please watch the video here.

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