RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security - Conferences & Workshops

Partnering with the poor: leveraging land for change

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:53:35 +0200

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.

Growing better cities to enhance food security, create jobs and protect the environment

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:52:19 +0200

This session was organised by IDRC, in cooperation with RUAF partners ETC-Urban Agriculture and IGSNRR.

In this panel local authorities from Beijing, Kampala, Rosario and Vancouver shared their experiences and discussed the next steps in strengthening the contribution of various forms of urban and peri-urban agriculture to different “city visions�?(e.g. the inclusive city, the productive city, the sustainable city). The panel highlighted how these innovative policies are already helping cities meet their development challenges.

Cultivating Inclusive Cities: Multi-stakeholder Policy Making and Action Planning for Urban Agriculture and Food Security

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:32:39 +0100

Organised by the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Key Highlights
Over 150 participants from cities in the North and South discussed the importance of urban agriculture for social inclusion, poverty alleviation, food security, environmental management and shared experiences regarding the use of participatory and multi-stakeholder approach to policy formulation and action planning. Several contacts were established for continued exchange and cooperation.

Objective
To generate discussion and understanding of the role that multi-stakeholder consultations and action play in developing better urban agriculture management and programming.

Session report and papers
Find the full session report here

Papers written by participants:

MDP/IDRC workshop on the political economy of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:22:45 +0100

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.

RUAF Publications

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:24 +0200

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, please click on the title of the publication to access the publication. Please note that not all RUAF Publications are available online, RUAF Publications that are only available in hard copy are mentioned at the bottom of the list. For regional RUAF publications you should go to Regional RUAF Activities. 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.


Title	Author
Books
Cities Farming for the Future - Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities (2006)	René van Veenhuizen (eds)
Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda (2001)	Bakker, N. et al.
Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture (2002)	ETC-RUAF
Resource Guide on Urban Agriculture (1999)	ETC Ecoculture

Working papers
WP 1 Multi-stakeholder Policy Formulation and Action Planning for Sustainable Urban Agriculture Development (2007)	Marielle Dubbeling and Henk de Zeeuw (with contributions from T. Otchere Larbi (IWMI Ghana) and G. Merzthal and A. Santandreu (IPES))
WP 2 Key Issues and Courses of Action for Municipal Policy Making on Urban Agriculture (2007)	Henk de Zeeuw, Marielle Dubbeling, René van Veenhuizen and Joanna Wilbers

Proceedings of workshops and conferences
Women Feeding Cities - Gender Workshop (2004)	ETC-RUAF & Urban Harvest
SADC Ministers Conference on Urban Agriculture (2003)	Shingirayi Mushamba
Urban Livestock keeping in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003)	Wynn Richards & Sarah Godfrey (eds)
Proceedings of the workshop on Appropriate methodologies for urban agriculture research, planning, implementation and evaluation (2001)	Gordon Prain & Henk de Zeeuw
Gardens of Hope: Urban micro-farming as a complementary strategy for mitigation of the HIV-AIDS pandemic (2005)	ETC-RUAF, Bezekhaya, A. & CTA

E-conferences
Optimising agricultural land use in the city area (2003)	Michael Baumeister & Henk de Zeeuw
Agricultural use of untreated urban waste water in low income countries (2002)	Liqa Raschid-Sally, Sarath Abayawardana & Henk de Zeeuw
Appropriate methodologies for research, policy development, planning, implementation and evaluation (2002)	Henk de Zeeuw
Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda (2000)	Rachel Nugent & Henk de Zeeuw

Papers
Profitability and sustainability of urban and peri-urban agriculture (2007)	Rene van Veenhuizen & George Danso
The development of urban agriculture; some lessons learnt (2004)	Henk de Zeeuw
Contribution of urban and peri-urban agriculture to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003)	O. Cofie, R. van Veenhuizen & P. Drechsel
Improving agricultural productivity in the rural-urban interface through recycling of urban waste (2003)	O. Cofie, P. Drechsel & H. de Zeeuw

Policy briefs
Why are aquatic production systems important to South-East Asian Cities (2006)	Marielle Dubbeling
Integrating aquaculture into urban planning and development (2006)	Marielle Dubbeling
Managing health risks to develop wastewater into a valuable resource and asset (2006)	Marielle Dubbeling
Improving public health and food safety (2006)	Marielle Dubbeling
Production and marketing to reduce poverty and hunger (2006)	Marielle Dubbeling
Urban Agriculture: A Tool for Sustainable Urban Development (2003)	UMP/IPES
Urban Agriculture and Citizen Involvement (2003)	UMP/IPES
Urban Agriculture: Land Management and Physical Planning (2003)	UMP/IPES
Microcredit and Investment for Urban Agriculture (2003)	UMP/IPES
Recycling Organic Wastes in Urban Agriculture (2003)	UMP/IPES
Treatment and Use of Wastewater in Urban Agriculture (2003)	UMP/IPES
Urban Agriculture: Fostering Equity Between Men and Women (2003)	UMP/IPES
Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty (2003)	UMP/IPES
Processing and Marketing Urban Agriculture Products (2003)	UMP/IPES

CDs
Urban Agriculture Today! (2002) Agricultura Urbana Hoy! L'Agriculture Urbaine Aujourd'hui	ETC-RUAF (available in English, Spanish & French)

Videos
Urban Agriculture (2002)	ETC-RUAF
Urban Agriculture and reuse of waste water along the Musi River in Hyderabad (2003)	IWMI-India
Agriculture Urbaine; une alternative pas la developpment urbaine durable (2003)	IAGU
Video / TV programme on peri-urban agro-tourism in Beijing (2003)	IGSNRR