Health

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.

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.

Health Risk Assessment of Children Exposed to Greywater in Jerash Refugee Camp in Jordan

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 14:23

Sahar Dalahmeh and Almoayed Assayed

In: UA Magazine no. 21 - Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: A role for urban agriculture?, pp. 41-42

The Sphere Project Guidelines

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 14:12

A. Adam-Bradford

In: UA Magazine no. 21 - Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: A role for urban agriculture?, p. 31

 

Health risk reduction in a wastewater irrigation system in urban Accra, Ghana

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 04:07

Produced in 2008 by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and its partners as a knowledge sharing aid.

 

Improving Food Safety in Africa - where vegetables are irrigated with polluted water

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 03:58

This video was produced by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (2007) and its partners as a training and awareness video for the street food sector.

Use of Irrigation Water to Wash Vegetables Grown in Urban Farms in Kumasi, Ghana

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 12:54

Lesley Hope

In: UA Magazine no. 20 - Water for Urban Agriculture, pp. 29-30

Owing to the importance of irrigated urban vegetable farming in Ghana, a number of research and development activities have been recently initiated to improve the safety of vegetables. The positive and negative impacts of these initiatives have already been widely documented (UA Magazine no. 8 and the article in no. 19 on this issue). This paper describes a number of low-cost risk-reduction interventions developed together with key stakeholders in the "farm to fork" continuum.

Cleaning, Greening and Feeding Cities; Local Initiatives in Recycling Waste for Urban Agriculture in Kampala, Uganda

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 11:35

Sanderijn van Beek and Rebecca L. Rutt

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

Uncollected solid waste is one of Kampala’s most visible environmental problems, and one of the main causes of environmental degradation within the city. While this poses a critical health hazard to the livelihoods of the urban poor, it also hinders economic growth and social achievement (Sengendo, 1994). However, amidst the gloom, there are local initiatives – developed by enterprising individuals and groups – which are helping to address waste problems through the creative reuse of organic waste in urban farming. Some of these innovations are rapidly becoming common practice; others are still experimental.

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