The event Urban Agriculture for Resilient Cities: Lessons learnt in policy, research and practice gathered 65 participants from the wide RUAF partnership, including representatives from farmers’ organisation, local and national authorities, UN Agencies, research centres, and NGOs from over 20 Countries in Almere, at the multifunctional city farm estate The Kemphaan on 19-20 May.

Below is an overview of the working sessions with links to the speakers’ presentations

Ten years ago, ETC Foundation initiated a programme named: “Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry” (RUAF). The RUAF project developed into an international network of 1 global and 7 regional Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security, which in 2004 obtained independent legal status as the RUAF Foundation.

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Date of RUAF intervention: 2007-ongoing

Introduction | Urban Agriculture in Sana'a | Multi stakeholder action planning | From Seed to Table | Products | Contact

By pippap

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, subdivided per type of publication. 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.

By David McKenzie, CNN
April 8, 2010

Une évocation de l'exploitation de Rahmé, agricultrice à Beyrouth. Les atouts de l'agriculture urbaine sont-ils une réponse aux enjeux environnementaux contemporains? Un reportage destiné au concours "Planete reporter" organisé par Le Monde.fr et Youtube.