Robert M. Pederson & Aileen Robertson

In: UA Magazine 3 - Health aspects of urban agriculture

Food production and its retail sales are increasingly perceived to be presenting risks to society in Europe. Consumers are concerned, and have lost trust and confidence in their food supply. Policies are therefore needed to limit the risks and to promote the assets of different means of food production and distribution, as well as to restore consumer confidence.

Anne C. Bellows, Verdie Robinson, Jennifer Guthrie, Troels Meyer, Natalie Peric and Michael W. Hamm

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

Urban livestock agriculture (ULA) in the USA is a constructive, yet largely unknown, underground, and unevenly regulated activity. Livestock encompasses multiple meanings for practitioners in the urban environments: economic buttress, tradition, cultural and/or religious endurance, and community cohesiveness. Research on and policy development for urban livestock (as for community food security generally) is lacking and needed. However, because livestock in the city is kept under diverse legal, illegal, and quasi-legal conditions, and because practitioners tend not to be part of the dominant culture, care must be taken to raise the issues under circumstances of support. In this article it is argued that issues of invisibility, distrust, and/or animosity between regulators and practitioners of urban livestock are founded more in the lack of attention paid by policy makers to food systems and food security generally, than in insurmountable challenges of urban livestock as a positive urban land use.

Henk de Zeeuw, Sabine Guendel and Hermann Waibel

In: UA Magazine 1 - Maiden issue

Report of the Ministers' Conference on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Prospects for food security and growth in eastern and southern Africa; a conference held on August 28-29, 2003, Sheraton Hotel - Harare - Zimbabwe. Compiled and edited by Shingirayi Mushamba, Takawira Mubvami, Nelson Marongwe and Kudazi Chatiza.

PRA Tools for studying Urban Agriculture and Gender. This document was prepared to facilitate the gender case studies to be undertaken by the Regional RUAF centres as a training exercise and an input to the gender expert consultation. Compiled by Henk de Zeeuw and Joanna Wilbers, Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF), april 2004.

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

Sofia: urban agriculture in an economy in transition.

Antoaneta Yoveva, Architect and Urban Planner, Sustainable World Foundation (SWF), Sofia, Bulgaria Boriana Gocheva, Economist, Sofia, Bulgaria Galya Voykova, Landscape architect, Sofia, Bulgaria Boris Borissov, Al Spassov, Medical Doctor.

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

Urban agriculture in London: rethinking our food economy

Tara Garnett, National Food Alliance, London, United Kingdom

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

Urban agriculture in the city of Havana: a popular response to a crisis

Mario Gonzalez Novo, Department of Urban Agriculture, Havana, Cuba and Catherine Murphy, The Institute for Food and Development Policy / Food First Oakland, USA

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

Urban agriculture in Harare: between suspicion and repression

Beacon Mbiba, University of Sheffield,Sheffield, United Kingdom

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