RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security - Health

Urban Agriculture for People Affected by HIV/Aids

Ellen Radstake — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:38:42 +0000

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

Books

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:06:35 +0000

RUAF Publications

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:04:56 +0000

Since the start of the first RUAF programme until now, many RUAF Publications have been published. On this page, you will find links to the the RUAF Publications available online, subdivided per type of publication. If you are looking for non-RUAF publications, you should search our bibliographic database. If you are looking for a certain Urban Agriculture Magazine article, please go to the Urban Agriculture Magazine section of this website.

UA Magazine no. 23 - The Role of Urban Agriculture in Sustainable Urban Nutrient Management

Ellen Radstake — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:52:53 +0000

Inside the White House: The Kitchen Garden

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:49:37 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:43:37 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:23:54 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:12:29 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:07:02 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:58:51 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:54:03 +0000

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

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:35:08 +0000

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.

From Eradication to Innovation: Towards healthy, profitable pig raising in Lima

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:25:22 +0000

Jessica Alegre, Gordon Prain and Miguel Salvo

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

Pig raising is an important livelihood activity in the District of Lurigancho Chosica, which is a low-income periurban neighbourhood located in the Rimac valley in the eastern part of the city of Lima. As many as 1600 families are thought to depend on this activity for some or all
of their income. Without organisation, technical support or regulation, they mostly operate in small clusters of informal livestock units perched on the arid hillsides of this desert city. This type of production raises concerns about public health risks and environmental pollution, and yet relatively simple changes in management can make pig raising a profitable, sustainable activity that can contribute
significantly to the well-being of urban and periurban families.

In Search of Safer Irrigation Water for Urban Vegetable Farming in Ghana

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:41:25 +0000

Bernard Keraita, Pay Drechsel, William Agyekum and Lesley Hope

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

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
and gutters with greywater. However, these water sources are usually heavily contaminated with untreated wastewater.

Gardens of Hope - Urban Micro-farming and HIV/AIDS

Femke Hoekstra — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:47:28 +0000

This DVD contains an 18 min video on a study visit to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. The video is produced by ETC Urban Agriculture, CTA and The Peoples Garden Centre.

A Respons to a Growing Crisis: urban food gardening in South Africa's townships

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:34:11 +0000

Matthew Lief

In: UA Magazine no. 18 - Building Communities through Urban Agriculture

Thirty years after the 1976 youth uprising which signalled the inevitable end of apartheid, the lives of children growing up in Port Elizabeth remain constrained by the threat of disrupted, unstable families and severe poverty. Today the barrier faced by families to providing a supportive, nurturing environment for children is no longer a brutally oppressive and racist government, but the crushing burden of a population besieged by HIV/Aids and unemployment on a massive scale.

Promoting Urban Agriculture through the Community Food Centre Model

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:10:29 +0000

Rhonda Teitel-Payne

In: UA Magazine no. 18 - Building Communities through Urban Agriculture

For over 30 years, The Stop Community Food Centre has been working to end hunger and build a
healthy and strong community in the Davenport West neighbourhood of the city of Toronto. The Stop strives to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality.

HIV/AIDS, Urban Agriculture and Community Mobilisation: cases from Zimbabwe

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:30:50 +0000

Takawira Mubvami and Milika Manyati

In: UA Magazine no. 18 - Building Communities through Urban Agriculture

HIV and Aids affect all communities –both urban and rural. This article looks at how urban agriculture can be a way to integrate the HIV/Aids-infected and -affected households in a community. The article starts by highlighting some of the issues relating to HIV/Aids and their impact before presenting case
studies that demonstrate how urban agriculture has been used to integrate HIV/Aids-affected households into communities.

Healthy planning

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:16:42 +0000

Land use policy offers a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. Local governments, private developers, and community groups can all work to create patterns of development that improve community health--by ensuring that farmers' markets and neighborhood grocery stores are supported, for instance, or by promoting sidewalks, parks and other environmental components that encourage physical activity.

Gardens of Hope: Urban micro-farming as a complementary strategy for mitigation of the HIV-AIDS pandemic (2005)

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:49:12 +0000

Proceedings of the study visit to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa in 17-25 August 2005. Compiled and edited by Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), ETC Urban Agriculture, Leusden, the Netherlands; Abalimi Bezekhaya, Cape Town, South Africa; and EU-ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Ede,
the Netherlands.

HIV Development.org

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:17:08 +0000

HIV Development.org contains publications, articles on development and HIV/AIDS. The most recent publication is of December 2004. Publications are also downloadable in Chinese.

The Development of Urban Agriculture; some lessons learnt (2004)

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:36:39 +0000

H. de Zeeuw

Key note paper for the International Conference ”Urban Agriculture, Agro-tourism and City Region Development”, Beijing, 10-14 October, 2004

The way forward: Health risk management in low-income countries

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:07:21 +0000

In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

Sanitation and urban wastewater management

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:55:56 +0000

In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

Study sites, cropping systems and profile of farmers

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:51:04 +0000

In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

Introduction

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:49:53 +0000

In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:55:55 +0000

By Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay Drechsel

Introduction

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:54:33 +0000

René van Veenhuizen

In: Cities Farming for the Future - Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities

Attention to urban agriculture has increased markedly during the last couple of decades. The number of activities to promote urban agriculture at international, national and local level has grown, but urban farmers in many cities in the world still struggle to get their main survival strategy recognised by city authorities. The demand of policy makers and local practitioners for inspiring examples of successful policies and actions in cities is therefore growing. Urban agriculture contributes to a wide variety of urban issues and is increasingly being accepted and used as a tool in sustainable city development. Currently the challenge is its integration into city planning and facilitation of its multiple benefits for urban inhabitants. This book seeks to present the current state of affairs regarding urban agriculture and sustainable urban development.

CAB International (CABI)

Femke Hoekstra — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:38:31 +0000

CAB International (CABI) has as its mission to help improve human welfare worldwide through the dissemination, application and generation of scientific knowledge in support of sustainable development, with emphasis on agriculture, forestry, human health and the management of natural resources.

Conferencia Electrónica: El uso agrícola de aguas residuales urbanas no tratadas en paises de bajos ingresos

RUAF Resource Manager — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:49:49 +0000

El Uso Agrícola de Aguas Residuales Urbanas no Tratadas en Paises de Bajos Ingresos (Conferencia Electrónica - 24 Junio - 5 Julio 2002)