Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn

In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

This paper is written from a U.K. perspective and uses London as an example of an expanding city.

Marije Pouw and Joanna Wilbers

In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

Multifunctional land use and the Netherlands have become synonymous as the population of this small country on the rim of the North Sea has increased over the decades to a current density matched only by a small number of places on this earth (1). The experiences of two organisations involved in urban agriculture and multifunctional land use in the Netherlands show how both utilise their multifunctional character as an organisational strategy.

Antonio Lattuca, Raul Terrile, Laura Bracalenti, Laura Lagorio, Gustavo Ramos and Fernando Moreira

In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

The Urban Agriculture Programme (UAP) was launched by the Municipality of Rosario in 2002, amidst an unprecedented nationwide socio-economic crisis. This initiative marked an important step in further development of municipal policies and programmes towards supporting and strengthening this alternative production system.

Paris Marshall Smith, Mohammed Junaid Yusuf, Urmilla Bob and Andreas de Neergaard

In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

In an economically and racially segregated city, urban agriculture (UA) can be a tool for political and social transformation that modifies the physical structures by developing meeting grounds, linking areas and eliminating buffer zones. In transforming the physical spaces, UA can change the way people identify themselves and engage with one another. These are critical elements in the discussion of sustainable livelihoods and the alleviation of poverty.

André Fleury and Awa Ba

In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

Growing cities spontaneously tend to engulf unoccupied urban spaces, i.e. all the non-constructed areas whose presence seems unjustified. Cultivated areas are relocated towards the periphery. This is the spatial expression of the economic logic of ground rent which, in the long term, achieves a balance between economic productivity and land value.

Cisse, Oumar, Ndeye Fatou Diop & Moussa Sy. Institutional and legal aspects of urban agriculture in Frenchspeaking West Africa: from marginalization to legitimization. In: Environment and Urbanization, Oct 2005; 17: 143 - 154.

Policy brief on legalislative and policy issues on urban agriculture in Zimbabwe
By Dorothy Mushayavanhu (eds. Shingirayi Mushamba)
2003, Harare: MDPESA

Proceedings of the MDP/IDRC workshop on the political economy of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa compiled by Shingiraj Mushamba.

Bronte Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe, February 28 - March 2, 2001

Organised by the Municipal Development Programme for Eastern and Southern Africa (MDP-ESA) in collaboration with IDRC. The workshop focused on the political economy of urban agriculture, in recognition of the important role it plays: access to resources such as peri-urban land and water are key to determining who practices urban agriculture and who benefits. Secure access to land and water is influenced not only by urban legislation and landuse planning, but also by the range of formal and informal rules, institutions and processes that determine access to and use of resources, and through which competition and negotiation over resources occur. Understanding these processes can assist in establishing political processes and institutions which enable stakeholders to resolve potential conflicts over access to resources.

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