Andrew Adam-Bradford Over the last decade, urban agriculture has played a steadily increasing role in improving the quality of life for people affected by HIV/Aids. Already in 2004, RUAF, together with CTA and Abalimi Bezekhaya, organised the first international urban agriculture and HIV/Aids workshop in South Africa entitled Gardens of Hope: Urban Micro-Farming as a Complementary Strategy for Mitigation of the HIV/Aids Pandemic

Pay Drechsel, Olufunke O. Cofie, B. Keraita, P. Amoah. Alexandra Evans and Priyanie Amerasinghe

Moussa Sy

With almost half a million inhabitants in 2006, Bobo-Dioulasso is Burkina Faso’s second largest city. It is located 360 km south-west of Ouagadougou. Agricultural activities are important in the socio-economic life of Bobo-Dioulasso, and seven percent of the population grows cereals in the suburbs and vegetables along the Houet River.

Jianming, Cai, Zhenshan Yang, Shenghe Liu, Ming Liu, Hua Guo, Shanshan Du

Cecilia Castro, Luis Chavarria

Pig raising is one of the main activities carried out by urban farmers in periurban areas of northern and southern Lima, due to a lack of water for irrigation in the desert climate. The RUAF FStT programme collaborated with the producer organisation AGROSILVES to improve the productivity and profitability of its farmer members, by applying the production chain approach and strengthening their organisation.

Salwa Tohme Tawk, Ziad Moussa, Shadi Hamadeh, Diana Abi-Saiid

Marielle Dubbeling

Gaston Remmers

Marielle Dubbeling

The current global urban population is expected to double by 2050, with 90 percent of urban growth taking place in developing countries. Many cities are ill equipped to handle such large-scale expansion. Various cities are starting to recognise urban agriculture as an integral part of urban planning, upgrading and design. They are including urban agriculture in land use planning, social housing programmes and slum upgrading. This article
describes some examples of their strategies.