]> http://www.ruaf.org/taxonomy/term/40,68/all en http://www.ruaf.org/node/961 <p><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 50%;"><p><b>Edited by René van Veenhuizen (2006). Published by RUAF Foundation, IDRC and IIRR.</b></p> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:59:58 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/692 <p> <table style="WIDTH: 100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p>In conjunction with Sida, ETC Netherlands, TUAN and other organisations, <strong>&quot;An Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture&quot;</strong> 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 &quot;state of the art&quot; overview followed by literature references with abstracts.</p> <p>To download the full document as a PDF (4.3MB) please click <a href="files/annotated_bibliography.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:59:34 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1679 <p><strong>Nevin Cohen</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>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. </p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:55:28 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1678 <p><strong>Juan Izquierdo, Gilda Carrasco, Juan José Estrada and Sara Granados</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>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<br />been promoting the use of a number of appropriate technologies.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:27 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1677 <p><strong>Erika R. Allen</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Growing Power is a national nonprofit organisation and land trust that supports people from diverse backgrounds and the environments<br />in which they live. Growing Power provides hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the<br />development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:50:35 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1674 <p><strong>Berihun Tefera and Getachew Tikubet</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Solid waste management is a major challenge facing the cities in the developing world. The commercial recycling of organic waste into a valuable organic fertiliser called “Bio-compost� is new in Addis Ababa and it is having a noticeable impact on improved organic waste management and urban agriculture.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:42:55 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1673 <p><strong>BJ Njokwe and M. Mudhara</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>In Msunduzi Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, backyard gardens are growing in popularity. People use small pieces of land to<br />produce crops, often municipality-owned open grounds or wastelands in their vicinity. Some councillors encourage this and may provide tools and seeds. This policy support is also based on the realisation that sustainable agriculture can contribute to a reduction in pollution in the city.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:40:21 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1671 <p><strong>Hans Peter Reinders and Hans Repko</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Wine production in the Netherlands is increasing. Since the Netherlands is not a traditional wine-producing region there is a tremendous need for new knowledge. This knowledge is partly imported from other regions with similar characteristics, such as Germany. But since every location is unique, specific knowledge also needs to be developed. Research is limited for such a small sector in the Netherlands, so a lot of innovations are developed by the growers themselves. A good example of an innovative enterprise is the Dutch vineyard El Placer, located in the city of Lelystad.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:35:08 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1669 <p><strong>Awa Ba and Ngouda Ba</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Micro-gardening is an innovative response by farmers to urban constraints, but also to urban demands with respect to the quality of products. The urban context in that sense is conducive to technological innovation because of the numerous developments and interactions which take place.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:25:06 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1668 <p><strong>Claudia Patricia Gonzalez Rojas</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>The population of the Bogota Capital District is increasing rapidly. A major reason for this is internal migration. The need for housing for these displaced people has contributed to the accelerated use of periurban and urban areas for construction of houses, affecting the availability of land suitable for urban agriculture. Meanwhile, there is an increase in the demand for arable land and for food that contributes to a balanced diet.</p> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:20:47 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1667 <p><strong>Roxanne Christensen</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Cities are impulsive, boisterous, spontaneous, and competitive, while agriculture is plodding, tranquil, deliberate and deferential. SPIN-Farming is helping to create a world where for one to be right, the other does not have to be wrong.</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:54:53 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1666 <p><strong>Thilak T. Ranasinghe</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Home gardening is usually seen as a subsistence-oriented production system. However, in urban and suburban areas land is a precious<br />resource, which is why home gardening can be turned into a profitable production system. In this context the concept of the Family Business Garden was launched on World Environment Day 2000 in Sri Lanka.</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:52:03 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1665 <p><strong>Zhang Feifei, Cai Jianming and Ji Wenhua</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Beijing is a city faced with a shortage of water. Less than 600 mm of rain falls per year; but this figure is highly variable and actual rainfall has been lower than average in the past eight years. Less than 300 cubic metres of water is available per person per year; this is one eighth of the average volume per person available in the country as a whole and one thirtieth of the world average. Because of the downward trend in rainfall, surface water is gradually drying up and the level of ground water is declining.</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:48:38 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1664 <p><strong>Bernard Keraita, Pay Drechsel, William Agyekum and Lesley Hope</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Irrigated vegetable farming is a common practice in and around many cities in low-income countries. It is also an important means for attaining urban food security and balanced diets, and it provides a livelihood to many urban dwellers. However, increasing contamination of irrigation water sources makes this practice a major risk factor for public health, especially as most vegetables grown are consumed raw. Urban vegetable farmers in Ghana use different water sources for irrigation, depending on the location of their farming sites. Surface water is most commonly used as it is easily accessible and thus most economical. Farmers collect it from streams, stormwater drains<br />and gutters with greywater. However, these water sources are usually heavily contaminated with untreated wastewater. </p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:44:25 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/1663 <p><strong>Marit Brommer and William Critchley</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>It is increasingly recognised that in rural areas of developing countries the microenvironment around the household/ home garden is the centre of productive resources (Chambers, 1990; Scoones, 2001; Critchley et al.,in preparation). Not only are people based there, but animals tend to be housed close by and crop production is more intensive and diversified around the homestead. The most common hotspot of fertility and production is thus around the house and compound. From the point of view of water, the home is again a concentration point: not only is water brought there for various domestic purposes (and wastewater thus available after use), but also roof tops and compacted compounds give rise to runoff.</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:41:09 +0100