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UA Magazine no 24: From Seed to Table; Developing urban market chains

We would like to receive your contributions or suggestions for the next issue of the UA Magazine:
From Seed to Table; Developing urban market chains (publication: July 2010). Please send us your contribution before 1 April 2010. For more information, please read the call for contributions.

New city page on urban agriculture in Sana'a (Yemen)

Please click here to read more on urban agriculture in Sana'a and the multi-stakeholder policy formulation and action planning process and the activities in the From Seed to Table programme.

Cities, Food and Agriculture: Challenges and the way forward

This policy briefing resulted from the international expert consultation organised by FAO-Food for the Cities and RUAF Foundation (24-25 September, 2009, in Rome), attended by some 25 experts on urban food security and urban agriculture from international organisations. Read more.

Wastewater Irrigation and Health: Assessing and Mitigating Risk in Low-income Countries

In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution and the use of very poor quality water for crop irrigation especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can create significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw. Wastewater Irrigation and Health approaches this serious problem from a practical and realistic perspective, addressing the issues of health risk assessment and reduction in developing country settings. Click here for more information on this new book and receive a 20% discount.

Urban Farmer Field School in Bogota

Please click here to view some photos of the FSTT activities in Bogota by Liliana Ramirez.

RUAF Update 13

Please click here for a new issue of the RUAF Update, containing the latest news on the activities of the RUAF partners. Previous versions of the RUAF Update are available here.

Sustainable Food Planning

On October 9 and 10, 2009, the first AESOP sustainable food planning conference has been held in Almere, the Netherlands. This conference, under auspices of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), was organized by AESOP, ISOMUL and the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Read more

Course 3: Urban Agriculture Types

The third distance learning course on Urban Agriculture is available on http://moodle.ruaf.org/. Course 3 introduces the main urban agriculture types and systems found around the world, including different production systems as well as input supply, processing and marketing systems linked to urban agriculture. It explains why a typology of urban agriculture systems is needed and briefly describes each of the different urban agriculture types in terms of the actors involved, their resource-use, location, functions, technical aspects, development challenges and support needs.

Belo Horizonte winner of the Future Policy Award 2009

Recognized as the world's most comprehensive policy that tackles hunger immediately and secures a healthy and affordable food supply for all, the Food Security Programme developed since the early 1990s in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is the winner of the Future Policy Award 2009 presented by the World Future Council.

Please click here for more information, a downloadable film about Belo Horizonte's food policy, and general inspiration.

UA Magazine no. 22 - Building Resilient Cities

The latest issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine is now published online.