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Welcome to the second  issue of the Urban and Peri-urban Forestry bimonthly newsletter from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  

The PAPUSSA Programme has made available an increasing amount of information on peri-urban aquatic production systems in South-East Asian cities, their benefits and constraints. To further support the strengthening the peri-urban aquatic production and marketing systems in the above-mentioned cities, as well as in other South-East Asian cities, stakeholders in these cities identified 4 key recommendations (see below) to guide policy makers and other senior stakeholders in further development of the sector. These recommendations include the need to:

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.