Katrien van 't Hooft

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

Cysticercosis is one of the most dangerous diseases caused by a parasite that passes from animals to human beings. It is most prevalent in the rural areas of developing countries, from where it can become a threat in urban areas too. Cysticercosis is closely related to economic standards, culture and aspects of hygiene. Latin America, non-Islamic parts of Africa and South East Asia and especially India face major problems with this disease. In this article the author describes cysticercosis that originates from pigs (Cysticercosis cellulosae) in Bolivia, South America.

Adriano Mantovani

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

Zoonoses have been defined by WHO (1959) as 'Those disease and infections (the agents of) which are naturally transmitted between (other) vertebrate animals and man'. Recently the concept has been enlarged with the following proposal: 'Any detriment to the health and/or quality of human life deriving from relationships with (other) vertebrate or edible or toxic invertebrate animals', Mantovani 2000).

Alain Santandreu, Gustavo Castro & Fernando Ronca

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

At the end of the 19th century, Sansón Carrasco (nom de plume of Daniel Muñoz, 1849-1930), reported on pigs being bred with household wastes. His chronicles are still valid today. For instance, in his article "Trash" (1883), he writes:
"...and in the depressions, and on the beach, pigs and more pigs, and always pigs everywhere you look, some of them feeding, some stretched out without a care in the world, others grunting as they get a glimpse of me, as if upset by my intrusion in their domain..."

Paper on the reuse of (untreated) waste water in urban agriculture, based on the results of the regional workshops on this subject organised 2002 in Ouagadougou and Hyderabad. The paper was presented and distributed during the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, March 2003 - Compiled by: Liqa Rashid-Sally, Sarath Abayawardena and Henk de Zeeuw.

Key fact sheet on reuse of wastewater in Urban Agriculture: IWMI- West Africa Office, Accra, Ghana.

Cairo: urban agriculture and visions for a "modern" city

Jörg Gertel, Professor at the Oriental Institut, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Said Samir, Roxy Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

In: Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

Growing Cities Growing Food - Thematic Paper 1:Urban Agriculture: Definition, Presence, Potentials and Risks.

In: N. Bakker, M. Dubbeling, S. Guendel, U. Sabel Koschella, H. de Zeeuw (eds.) (2000) Growing Cities, Growing Food, Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda, pp. 99-117, DSE, Feldafing.

Women in Urban Agriculture: The Case of the Sampaguita Garland Livelihood System in Metro Manila, Philippines

Being a paper presented to RUAF/Urban Harvest - Woman Feeding Cities Workshop "Gender Main Streaming in Urban Food Production and Food Security" Date: 20th -23rd September, 2004 In Accra, Ghana