Gordon Prain and Henk de Zeeuw

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

The preceding article by Critchley et al. presents important experiences gained in rural development programmes regarding how to support technological and socio-organisational innovation in farming systems. To what extent can such rural-based experiences be applied in the urban context? How do the specific urban conditions influence the process of innovation in urban farming systems? What are the main technological and socio-organisational challenges at hand in the urban context? In what ways can local innovation processes in urban farming systems

Dick Foeken

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

Johan van Schaick

In: UA Magazine 17 - Strengthening Urban Producers' Organisations

In 2001 the Amsterdam municipality started preparations for a new spatial plan, which became the basis for city planning development in the period 2002-2010. The plan, entitled “Choosing urbanism�, aimed to place residential and economic functions within the city limits, while green areas were to be established on the city fringes. Among other steps, the plan involved sacrificing five allotment garden parks for housing construction and infrastructure developments. It compelled the tenant of the allotment garden parks, the Association of Allotment Gardens (or in Dutch: Bond van Volkstuinders, BvV), to choose an entirely new and different strategy for influencing policy, of which this article provides an account.

H. de Zeeuw

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

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Raul Terrile and Antonio Lattuca

In: UA Magazine 16 - Formulating Effective Policies on Urban Agrilculture

While the city of Kampala principally adopted a regulatory approach to urban agriculture based on a system of permits, licenses, control and use of legal instruments, the city of Rosario placed its emphasis on development of an enabling policy framework based on economic incentives, communicative and educative instruments and design instruments (see also article De Zeeuw and Wilbers in this issue).

Ssemwanga Margaret Azuba and Sarah McCans

In: UA Magazine 16 - Formulating Effective Policies on Urban Agrilculture

This paper presents the process, experiences and lessons learnt pertaining to urban agriculture policy change in Kampala. Specifically, it chronicles the legal and policy framework related to urban agriculture before 2001, and the participatory process culminating in the formulation of the current Bills for Ordinances that will serve to promote and regulate urban agriculture in Kampala City.

Alexander C. Thornton

In: UA Magazine 16 - Formulating Effective Policies on Urban Agrilculture

The promotion of land redistribution, especially for use by the urban poor to meet subsistence needs, often collides with historical and political barriers. Findings from a recent PhD case study conducted
by the author in a small former homeland (or black reserve) in South Africa reveal that the availability of vacant land is often not known to those who may seek to use it for urban agriculture.