Jac Smit

In: UA Magazine 1 - Maiden issue

Jac Smit of TUAN (The Urban Agriculture Network, based in the USA) argues that bringing back agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and livestock rearing to the human settlement is a key component in reducing the negative ecological footprint of cities that is 50 to 125 times the area of the city itself. He illustrates this with a number of interesting examples.

Axel W. Drescher, Petra Jacobi & Joerg Amend

In: UA Magazine 1 - Maiden issue

The authors discuss why people get involved in urban agriculture. The article is based on information extracted from 20 city case studies on urban agriculture worldwide and additionally draws from experiences of the Urban Vegetable Promotion Project in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). They argue that local authorities have to take their responsibilities in securing urban food security and to create an impact on urban poverty alleviation.

Luc J.A. Mougeot

In: UA Magazine 1 - Maiden issue

This article is a part of a longer article by Luc Mougeot of IDRC from Growing Cities, Growing Food (Bakker et al., 2000). In this excerpt, the author takes the need for conceptual maturity of urban agriculture as a starting point to show the various dimensions of urban agriculture and to claim its firm position in the urban system.

In: UA Magazine 1 - Maiden issue

Growing cities and urban populations are some of the big challenges of the future. The importance of urban agriculture in sustainable urban development is growing. As recognition grows, more people are becoming involved in the issue. Many newsletters and magazines have devoted issues to the subject in recent years, including GATE, Urban Age, African Urban Quarterly, and the LEISA Newsletter, and there have been many workshops and conferences on the subject.

Urban Agriculture Magazine
July 2000, Volume 1, no. 1