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Finance & CreditSecuring Funds through Municipal Participatory Budgets: the experience of Porto Alegre, BrazilSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 16:15
Saya SaulièreIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture Porto Alegre is internationally known for its innovative management strategies. One of the pillars of local democratisation was the implementation of a Participatory Budget. In 1989, the people's government of Porto Alegre first implemented the Participatory Budgeting Programme. Since that time, the population can itself decide on the allotment of public funds. Organised urban producers were thus able to apply for funding to develop their activities, ranging from production to processing. ( categories: )
Financing Urban Agriculture in London with special reference to City FarmsSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 16:11
Beacon MbibaIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture City farms as a form of urban agriculture is a recent but increasingly important urban phenomenon in the United Kingdom. Both the start-up and operational costs are very high and the future security of the projects would need more direct inputs from the government to fund farm ownership and long-term posts for farm managers. The future of urban agriculture lies in the ability to adapt and mainstream it into prevailing development themes such as education, community cohesion, social inclusion and biodiversity. Integration with business themes also attracts private sector support both in cash and in-kind. The role of volunteers and sharing of resources among project groups is a key feature of community projects that other cities could promote as well. ( categories: )
HOPCOMS: a Success Story of Horticultural Co-operative MarketingSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 16:08
Smita PremchanderIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture The state government of Bangalore has been unable to meet the needs of the people and the growing city. Civil society organisations are beginning to take on the added responsibility of informing the public and advocating for change. One of the ways in which the many problems can be addressed is to encourage investments in people-owned institutions. There remains a particular need for credit and investment in urban agriculture. HOPCOMS offers an example of an organisation that provides benefits of collective marketing to both producers as well as consumers related to the daily need of fruit and vegetables by people of all classes. ( categories: )
Focusing credit on Urban Agriculture in Gaborone, BotswanaSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 16:05
A.C.MoshaIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture The city of Gaborone has grown from a very small village to become the capital city of Botswana in a period of less than 36 years. Subsistence and commercial agriculture are both found throughout Gaborone. One of the safety nets adopted by the poor has been urban agriculture either as a means of survival or to supplement low incomes, while some entrepreneurs have opted for urban agriculture as a means of making money. Of the various credit programmes in Botswana, three have achieved some marked success in urban and periurban agriculture and are examined in this paper. Credit and investment in Urban Agriculture in NepalSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 16:03
Roshan ShresthaIn: 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. ( categories: )
Social policy or an unheard claim: the case of Texcoco, MexicoSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 15:58
Gabriel Ramírez GarcíaIn: 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. ( categories: )
Micro-credits for small producers in ArgentinaSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 15:56
María Angélica Sbarbatti, Teresa Sunde and Myrian DreyerIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture Urban agriculture in implies small-scale activities to supplement household income. There is no entrepreneurial concept, as in large industries. Resources are available through temporary work plans, such as the Pro-Huerta (Pro-Garden) Programme of INTA (National Institute of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Technology) and the PSA (Social Agricultural Programme). Although the economic crisis has been weakening the integration processes in the country, conditions exist that allow the generation of a positive change through urban farming activities, as small producers are the true motors behind development. The PSA, created in 1993, focuses on conditions for change. The rural micro-credit programme has been adapted to producers in periurban and urban areas, promoting transformation of production systems via the provision of training, financial and technical assistance. ( categories: )
The Marketing Manager in GhanaSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 15:54
George Danso and Pay DrechselIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture While many agricultural activities in Ghana are financed either by the government or by external aid, the urban farmers producing for the market usually have to rely on own funds to start their businesses, or rely on credit from market women for the purchase of inputs. Some urban farmers do not rely on any support and bypass this dependency. An example of this is a group of seven farmers in Accra described here. ( categories: )
Boxes on Matto Grosso do Sul, Tontines and KhartoumSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 15:50
Compiled by Marielle Dubbeling and René van VeenhuizenIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture No articles were received on these three subjects, but found worthwhile to highlight in this issue. These articles are also included in the pdf file of the Editorial. ( categories: )
Editorial: Financing Urban AgricultureSubmitted by Guest on Thu, 06/23/2005 - 15:44
Marielle Dubbeling and René van VeenhuizenIn: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture Even low financial support can make a significant difference to poor urban families. Many of the increasing group of urban dwellers living around the poverty line are (informal) micro-entrepreneurs, involved in a diversity of activities such as shopkeeping, waste collection and recycling, trading, transport and farming. These entrepreneurs require access to working capital for the maintenance of their investment and for its potential expansion. ( categories: )
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