Andrew Adam-Bradford Over the last decade, urban agriculture has played a steadily increasing role in improving the quality of life for people affected by HIV/Aids. Already in 2004, RUAF, together with CTA and Abalimi Bezekhaya, organised the first international urban agriculture and HIV/Aids workshop in South Africa entitled Gardens of Hope: Urban Micro-Farming as a Complementary Strategy for Mitigation of the HIV/Aids Pandemic

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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.

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.

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Sahar Dalahmeh and Almoayed Assayed

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

A. Adam-Bradford

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

 

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

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.