Food Security & Nutrition

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

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.

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

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.

To download the full document as a PDF (4.3MB) please click here.

Video - City Farmer News

Please click on this link http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/video/ to watch videos by Michael Levenston on:

  • Vacant Lot in Down

Gardens of Hope - Urban Micro-farming and HIV/AIDS

This DVD contains an 18 min video on a study visit to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. The video is produced by ETC Urban Agriculture, CTA and The Peoples Garden Centre.

A Respons to a Growing Crisis: urban food gardening in South Africa's townships

Matthew Lief

In: UA Magazine no. 18 - Building Communities through Urban Agriculture

Thirty years after the 1976 youth uprising which signalled the inevitable end of apartheid, the lives of children growing up in Port Elizabeth remain constrained by the threat of disrupted, unstable families and severe poverty. Today the barrier faced by families to providing a supportive, nurturing environment for children is no longer a brutally oppressive and racist government, but the crushing burden of a population besieged by HIV/Aids and unemployment on a massive scale.

Promoting Urban Agriculture through the Community Food Centre Model

Rhonda Teitel-Payne

In: UA Magazine no. 18 - Building Communities through Urban Agriculture

For over 30 years, The Stop Community Food Centre has been working to end hunger and build a
healthy and strong community in the Davenport West neighbourhood of the city of Toronto. The Stop strives to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality.

Promoting a City without Hunger and Indifference: urban agriculture in Bogotá, Colombia

Claudia Marcela Sánchez, Jairo Andrés Silva and Rolando Higuita

Just like other cities in the country and around the world, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, is undergoing rapid population growth leading to more pronounced social inequalities. In 2005, this city of approximately 6.8 million people had a poverty rate of 38.5 percent, and most of the poor were suffering from significant nutritional deficiencies due to the lack of access to food in the necessary quantities and quality.

Contribution of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture to Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Olufunke O. Cofie1, Rene van Veenhuizen2 and Pay Drechsel1

Paper presented at the Africa session of 3rd WWF, Kyoto, 17th March 2003

1International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Ghana Office, Accra
2RUAF, ETC, Leusden, The Netherlands

The Development of Urban Agriculture; some lessons learnt

H. de Zeeuw

Key note paper for the International Conference �Urban Agriculture, Agro-tourism and City Region Development�, Beijing, 10-14 October, 2004

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