Publications

Publications

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

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 07/06/2006 - 12:07

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

 

Gardens of Hope. Urban Micro-farming as a Complementary Strategy for Mitigation of the HIV-AIDS Pandemic.

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Mon, 01/16/2006 - 16:22

Proceedings and papers of the study visit and workshop that took place from 17 to 25 August 2005 in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

Organised by:
  • Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), ETC-Foundation, Leusden, the Netherlands
  • Abalimi Bezekhaya, Cape Town, South Africa
  • EU-ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Ede, the Netherlands

The proceedings can be found here. The seperate papers are listed in and accesible through the table below.

Annotated Bibliography on Urban Agriculture

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 12:28

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.

RUAF Update #9

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 16:13
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RUAF Update # 9
October 2007

E-mail bulletin with news of the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF).

RUAF Update # 7

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 11/23/2006 - 09:59
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RUAF Update # 7
November 2006

E-mail bulletin with news of the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF).

Informal Irrigation in Urban West Africa: an overview

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 14:16

Pay Drechsel, Sophie Graefe, Moise Sonou and Olufunke O. Cofie

Also online at: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/pub102/RR102.pdf , and will be available at IWMI HQ as hardcopy end of October. It is a product of a collaboration of IWMI-FAO-RUAF and the Comprehensive Assessment.

To order hard copies of this report please contact:
The Distribution Officer, IWMI
P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Fax: +94-11-2786854
E: iwmi@cgiar.org

Back Cover

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 14:09
In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

References

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 14:08
In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

The way forward: Health risk management in low-income countries

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 14:07
In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay

Institutional aspects of urban vegetable farming and "wastewater irrigation"

Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 14:05
In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana - Characteristics, Benefits and Risks by Emmanuel Obuobie, Bernard Keraita, George Danso, Philip Amoah, Olufunke O. Cofie, Liqa Raschid-Sally and Pay
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