STRENGTHENING URBAN PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS
ISSN 1571-6244

no. 19, december 2007

UA Magazine is published two times a year by the network of resource centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), under the Cities Farming for the Future Programme, which is financed by DGIS, the Netherlands, and IDRC, Canada.

UA Magazine is translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic, and distributed in separate editions through the RUAF regional networks, and is also available on www.ruaf.org.

The RUAF Partners are:

• Latin America: IPES Promoción del desarrollo Sostenible, Lima, Peru; email: au@ipes.org.pe; Website: www.ipes.org/au
Magazine in Spanish and Portugese
• Frenchspeaking West Africa: IAGU Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine, Dakar, Senegal; email: moussa@iagu.org; Website: www.iagu.org/ruaf/ruafiagufr.php Magazine in French• English-speaking West Africa: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-Ghana; email: o.cofie@cgiar.org ; Website: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/africa/west_africa/projects/rUAFii-cFF.htm
• East and Southern Africa: MDP Municipal Development Partnership (MDP); email: tmubvami@mdpafrica.org.zw ; Website: www.mdpafrica.org.zw/urban_agriculture.html
• South and South East Asia: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-India; email: r.simmons@cgiar.org ; Website: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/southasia/index.aspnc=9106&msid=119
• North Africa and Middle East: American University of Beirut, email: zm13@aub.edu.lb; Website: www.ecosystems.org/urbanagriculture ; Magazine in Arabic
• China: IGSNRR Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; email: caijm@igsnrr.ac.cn; Website:http://www.cnruaf.com.cn/ ; Magazine in Chinese
• Coordination and Support: ETC Foundation; email: ruaf@etcnl.nl; Magazine in English: www.ruaf.org

Editors, No. 19
This issue was compiled by René van Veenhuizen (responsible editor), together with Will Critchley, Ann Waters Bayer and Chesha Wettasinha of ProLinnoVA, and Gordon Prain of CIP - Urban Harvest.

Web Editing, Events, and Books
Femke Hoekstra and René van Veenhuizen

Administration
Ellen Radstake

Language Editor
Catharina de Kat-Reynen

Design, Layout and Printing
Koninklijke BDU

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In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Please find attached the events section.

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

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In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Please find attached the books section.

Hailu Araya, Alemayehu Ayalew, Azeb Werqu and Nigusie HaileMariam

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

As urbanisation increases in Ethiopia, city dwellers are responding in innovative ways to problems of high unemployment and opportunities of high market demand by growing crops and raising animals. Many people in poor families, especially women and youth, take these initiatives because they already knew farming before they migrated to town, or they learned it from others who were farming in town. 

Nevin Cohen

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Innovative US developers are integrating farmland into their residential areas (subdivisions), providing space for food production and linking residents to their farmer-neighbours, with positive consequences for both. Suburban farms can be an important part of a sustainable regional food system. 

Juan Izquierdo, Gilda Carrasco, Juan José Estrada and Sara Granados

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Urban and periurban agriculture requires the use of appropriate technologies that reduce environmental impacts, are easy to implement by the urban farmers, are low-cost, and use local inputs. Since 1996, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has
been promoting the use of a number of appropriate technologies.

Erika R. Allen

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Growing Power is a national nonprofit organisation and land trust that supports people from diverse backgrounds and the environments
in which they live. Growing Power provides hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the
development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

Nieves Gonzales, Miguel Salvo and Gordon Prain

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Organically-produced food is increasingly in demand among more affluent urban populations of developing countries, and these city dwellers are willing to pay a premium for food quality and safety. Agricultural producers living in and around these cities are well placed
to take advantage of this lucrative market.

Augustin Cihyoka

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

The city of Bukavu, the administrative centre of South-Kivu Province, is situated in Eastern DR Congo some 2,000 km from the capital, Kinshasa. It is an important commercial, administrative and university centre with a population of over 600,000 inhabitants. For several
reasons many of them have turned to farming to secure their livelihoods.