]> http://www.ruaf.org/taxonomy/term/50,35/0 en http://www.ruaf.org/node/1666 <p><strong>Thilak T. Ranasinghe</strong></p><p>In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture</p><p>Home gardening is usually seen as a subsistence-oriented production system. However, in urban and suburban areas land is a precious<br />resource, which is why home gardening can be turned into a profitable production system. In this context the concept of the Family Business Garden was launched on World Environment Day 2000 in Sri Lanka.</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:52:03 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/795 <h3>Vide Anosike, Shakirudeen Odunuga and Mayowa Fasona </h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>Land use reflects the functional activities assigned to a particular piece of land. In the past fifty years of Nigerian National Agricultural Development Planning, urban agriculture has not been promoted as a feasible urban land use or activity. Its contribution to urban food security and employment has not been acknowledged yet because food production is often perceived as a rural-based activity. </p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:02:04 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/792 <p /> <h3>Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn</h3> <p /><p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>This paper is written from a U.K. perspective and uses London as an example of an expanding city.</p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:42:25 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/791 <h3>Marije Pouw and Joanna Wilbers</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>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.</p> Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:14:23 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/786 <h3>Vikram Bhatt</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:18:35 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/784 <h3>K.A. Jayaratne</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>Traditionally, agriculture is not included as an activity in land use and zoning plans in urban development, although city greening is accepted as part of city beautification and landscaping. Still, people in urban areas in Colombo have always been involved in various agricultural activities, like growing vegetables, plants for curry leaves trees such as coconut, raising livestock and pigeons and fishing in inland waterways.</p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:33:12 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/782 <h3>Paris Marshall Smith, Mohammed Junaid Yusuf, Urmilla Bob and Andreas de Neergaard</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>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. </p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:27:31 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/779 <h3>Anne Floquet, Roch Mongbo and Juste Nansi</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>Abomey and Bohicon are two cities in central Benin whose recent expansion has prompted their link-up in a conurbation of 180,000 inhabitants. The agglomeration is located at the junction between the North-South and the East-West roads.</p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:16:15 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/777 <h3>André Fleury and Awa Ba </h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture</p><p>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. </p> Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:11:37 +0100 http://www.ruaf.org/node/612 <h3>Cagdas Kaya</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 14 - Urban Aquatic Production</p> <p>Turkey has been defined as a bridge between Asia and Europe. These two continents and their civilizations have left many marks on Turkey and the Turkish people. For thousands of years in Anatolia (Asian part) and Thrace (European part) life has been mostly based on agriculture. Istanbul, situated on this bridge, is growing rapidly as it attracts immigrants from rural areas. It is there that this initiative on urban agriculture is situated.</p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:12:01 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/604 <h3>Nitai Kundu, Nina Halder, Mousumi Pal, Sharmistha Saha and Stuart W Bunting</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 14 - Urban Aquatic Production</p> <p>Wastewater aquaculture, as practised in the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), has attracted much international attention as a model system for the reuse of urban wastewater and resource recovery. At present the multifunctional wetland ecosystem covers approximately 12,500 ha, and is comprised mainly of 254 fisheries managed for wastewater aquaculture, agricultural land, horticultural plots and residential areas. It constitutes a unique system of resource recovery, in which nutrients are extracted from the city’s wastewater through fish farming and agriculture.</p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:08:50 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/402 <h3>Clive Davies, Jonathan Scurlock</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together</p> <p>The Community Forest programme in England, announced in 1988, started as an experimental initiative by the Countryside Agency and the Forestry Commission, with an ambitious vision for the creation of well-wooded landscapes in and around major urban areas to be used for work, wildlife, recreation and education. </p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:23:43 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/397 <h3>Jianming CAI , Tingting HU, Liou XIE, Yingli GUO</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together</p> <p>Urban forestry is often regarded as a key ecological asset of a city. Each year many efforts are put into urban afforestation in China to make its cities more attractive and liveable. In the case of Beijing, this is even more obvious, particularly since the city is aiming to host 'green Olympics' in 2008. </p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:21:45 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/396 <h3>Antonio Lattuca, Raúl Terrile, Ricardo Kingsland, Pablo Abalos, Sabrina Cáceres, Carina Tamagno, Elio Di Bernardo, Laura Bracalenti, Laura Lagorio and Virginia Lamas</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together</p> <p>The experience described here is part of the inter-institutional and participatory research-action project called &quot;Optimization of the use of vacant land for Urban Agriculture through participatory planning and management programs, to promote food security and participatory municipal governance&quot;. This project has been carried out with the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Urban Management Program, supported by IPES and IDRC. </p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:21:24 +0200 http://www.ruaf.org/node/395 <h3>Anne Oosterbaan</h3> <p>In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together</p> <p>Multifunctional plantations offer a valuable contribution to mixed ways of periurban agriculture and forestry. They exist of a combination of trees with agriculture and produce a variety of products, offering a kind of nature citizens ask for. </p> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:21:02 +0200