RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security - Training & Extension

Hyderabad (India)

RUAF South and South East Asia — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:34:18 +0000

Location

Hyderabad

India

Date of RUAF intervention: 2005-2008

Women Feeding Cities - Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security (2009)

Femke Hoekstra — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:26:05 +0000

Edited by: Alice Hovorka, Henk de Zeeuw and Mary Njenga, 2009, Practical Action Publishing, Rugby, UK.

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.

Improving Agricultural Productivity in the Rural-Urban Interface through Recycling of Urban Waste (2003)

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:41:58 +0000

Olufunke Cofie ¹, Pay Drechsel ¹and Henk de Zeeuw ²

¹International Water Management Institute (IWMI), West Africa Sub-Regional Office, Accra, Ghana
²RUAF, ETC, Leusden, The Netherlands

Added Value

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:30:45 +0000

"Added Value is a non-profit organization promoting the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of young leaders. They work towards this goal by creating opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban farming enterprise.

Soil Contamination and Urban Agriculture - A practical guide to soil contamination issues for individuals and groups

Femke Hoekstra — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:32:54 +0000

Produced by Alexandra Heinegg, Patricia Maragos, Edmund Mason, Jane Rabinowicz, Gloria Straccini and Heather Walsh

This guide is written as a primer on soil contamination, as it relates to gardening in an urban setting. It seeks to provide individual gardeners or community groups with the necessary background information to address this issue. There are several important aspects of soil contamination which are addressed in this guide, including the dangers of gardening in contaminated soil, the potential sources of contamination, ways to evaluate the level of contamination present in the soil, and your options for addressing the problem. At the end of this document there are several appendices with information pertaining to the topics discussed here. Most of these are Montreal- and Canada–specific, but should provide some good starting points for similar resources in other cities and countries.

Participatory Technology Development for Sustainable Intensification of Urban Agriculture

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:21:30 +0000

Gordon Prain

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

The urban setting offers special advantages for food and animal production, but also presents particular challenges. Urban agriculture needs to be highly innovative in competing and adapting to new situations. Urban and peri-urban agricultural systems exhibit even higher levels of complexity than rural upland systems and call for a wider range of participatory methods. This chapter discusses participatory agricultural research and its relevancy for the urban setting. A sustainable urban livelihoods framework is discussed, which enables to better understand and define the multi-sectoral, institutional and policy aspects of urban agriculture in order to identify appropriate interventions. Specific participatory methods are discussed for urban horticulture and livestock to help urban producers adapt agriculture to urban realities.

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.

Cities Farming for the Future - Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities (2006)

Femke Hoekstra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:07:58 +0000

Edited by René van Veenhuizen (2006). Published by RUAF Foundation, IDRC and IIRR.

Partnering with the poor: leveraging land for change

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:26:35 +0000

Wednesday June 21, 13.30 - 15.30 hrs.
Room MR03
The session is organized by McGill University-Canada in cooperation with RUAF partner ETC Urban Agriculture and supported by IDRC.

This panel is based on the experiences gained in the Making the Edible Landscape project, jointly implemented by the above mentioned organisations and local partners in Kampala, Colombo and Rosario.

It will explore how land can be utilized by local authorities for (1) low-cost housing for the urban poor (2) inclusion in low cost housing projects of urban food production and empowerment of citizens through participatory processes, commercialization and income-generation (3) public-private partnership for sustainable development. Four mayors, horticulturists, housing experts and community representatives from the above mentioned cities as well as from Montreal will present urban upgrading and new construction projects that include food production and where the community plays an active part in both the decision-making and the maintenance of public lands.

Scenario’s for Periurban Horticulture in Hanoi and Nanjing

Femke Hoekstra — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:09:40 +0000

Leo van den Berg, Nguyen Vinh Quang and Guo Zhongxing

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

“Seeking Synergy

State of the Art - Training & Extension

Femke Hoekstra — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:52:44 +0000

Adequate Services for sustainable urban agriculture

Henk de Zeeuw (ETC-RUAF, Leusden, The Netherlands)

Extension, Marketing and Credit Services

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:18:50 +0000

Extension, Marketing and Credit Services, introduced by: Henk de Zeeuw (ETC-RUAF, Leusden, The Netherlands)

In: Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture

Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture (2002)

Femke Hoekstra — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:28:34 +0000

In conjunction with Sida, ETC Netherlands, TUAN and other organisations, "An Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture" has been produced. It contains 16 themes with State of the Art introductions. This Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture contains a comprehensive literature overview in 17 chapters, each with a "state of the art" overview followed by literature references with abstracts.

Building Women's Capacities to Access Markets in the Periurban Interface

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:13:05 +0000

Sangeetha Purushothaman, M.S. Subhas and Mitali Nagrecha

In: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture

In the periurban interface immense changes in livelihoods and land use occur. Expansion of cities stimulated by globalisation and privatisation poses risks for existing livelihoods as well as opportunities for new livelihoods by making use of urban employment and markets. Decision makers in urban and rural government agencies and in development agencies alike need to recognise these changes that are already underway, and respond in ways that turn these changes into opportunities for new livelihoods for the periurban and rural poor. This paper discusses some of the practices currently in place, which open up marketing avenues for the poor and for women.

Credit and investment in Urban Agriculture in Nepal

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:03:44 +0000

Roshan Shrestha

In: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture

In Nepal there are 58 municipalities and about 80% of the Nepalese population depends on agriculture, which is mainly based in the rural areas. Due to the high urbanisation rate, most of the arable land of Kathmandu inner city is occupied by housing and agricultural production has thus been reduced. More arable land is in the city's outer ring area, where people are involved in agriculture (rice and wheat) and horticulture and processing on a larger scale, the products of which are sold at the local market. The impact of two cooperatives are described here: MPSACCO, a women-only cooperative which has adopted two types of lending methodologies: Individual lending and Peer lending, and SSACCO, which is a mixed membership cooperative, adopted Individual lending only.

Social policy or an unheard claim: the case of Texcoco, Mexico

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:58:16 +0000

Gabriel Ramírez García

In: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture

In Mexico, large portions of farmland have been incorporated into the hierarchy and dynamics of big cities. One of the territories that share the megalopolitan dynamics of Mexico City is Texcoco, located in the state of Mexico, 20 kilometres from the capital city of Mexico. In Texcoco, 42 out of 54 communities are considered rural, and the mission of the present government is to preserve their production space from the urban influence. In 1997, the Rural Development Unit started the Productive Micro-credit Programme as a pilot. The goal of the programme was to strengthen farming activities in the region especially for small- and medium-sized producers, through the provision of economic aid. This programme is evaluated here.

Biodiversity, Poverty and Urban Agriculture, in Latin America

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:37:10 +0000

Alain Santandreu, Alberto Gómez Perazzoli and Marielle Dubbeling

In: UA Magazine 6 - Transition to Ecological Urban Agriculture: A Challenge

Over the years the poor have migrated to the cities in Latin America and the Caribbean in their search for higher incomes and a better life. Cities in the region have grown rapidly, and for the first time in history there are more poor people living in urban than in rural areas. Among the strategies employed by both the poorer urban population, and the local governments are agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Recent research conducted in Havana (Cuba); Montevideo (Uruguay) and Porto Alegre (Brazil) provide ample examples thereof.

Farmer Field Schools: an ideal method for urban agriculture?

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:50:18 +0000

Gordon Prain

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

Farmers in urban settings sometimes have limited pools of local technical knowledge on which to draw compared to their rural counterparts, sometimes because they are new to farming, sometimes because the environment in which they farm is new and unfamiliar. The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) provides the means for farmers and facilitators to explore available local knowledge and very importantly in this context, to identify the knowledge gaps that need to be addressed. Some pros and cons are discussed below.

TOPIC PAPER 2: A Framework for Facilitating Planning and Policy

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:12:30 +0000

Marielle Dubbeling

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

Urban agriculture is not a new phenomenon in the present-day cities of the world, and is more and more considered as an integrated part of urban management (as a strategy for poverty alleviation, income and employment generation and environmental management). However, only in few cases has urban agriculture been integrated into policy-making and planning.

Linking students to urban livestock producers in Mexico City

Thu, 26 May 2005 08:59:24 +0000

Emil Arias

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

A model for integrated higher education for training veterinary medical-animal husbandry students is discussed. In this model, students analyse local seasonal foodstuffs and immunisation and parasitism, while learning about marginal livestock producer needs. Both the University and the livestock producing families benefit. The former because it uses local resources, and the latter because they increase their knowledge, and use of foodstuffs, and reduce parasitism and, presumably, public health problems too.

PRA Tools

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:05:06 +0000

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.

Discussion Paper - Urban Agriculture and Gender: some key issues

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:52:55 +0000

This discussion paper was prepared as a start up of the discussions in the RUAF advisory group on gender and urban agriculture as a first step in the preparation of the planned expert consultation and as an input for the RUAF-IDRC Workshop on Gender in Urban Agriculture, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in July 2003. Author: Joanna Wilbers

Training & Extension

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:25:09 +0000

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