Marielle Dubbeling

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

Urban agriculture is not a new phenomenon in the present-day cities of the world, and is more and more considered as an integrated part of urban management (as a strategy for poverty alleviation, income and employment generation and environmental management). However, only in few cases has urban agriculture been integrated into policy-making and planning.

Emil Arias

In: UA Magazine 2 - Livestock in and around cities

A model for integrated higher education for training veterinary medical-animal husbandry students is discussed. In this model, students analyse local seasonal foodstuffs and immunisation and parasitism, while learning about marginal livestock producer needs. Both the University and the livestock producing families benefit. The former because it uses local resources, and the latter because they increase their knowledge, and use of foodstuffs, and reduce parasitism and, presumably, public health problems too.

PRA Tools for studying Urban Agriculture and Gender. This document was prepared to facilitate the gender case studies to be undertaken by the Regional RUAF centres as a training exercise and an input to the gender expert consultation. Compiled by Henk de Zeeuw and Joanna Wilbers, Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF), april 2004.

This discussion paper was prepared as a start up of the discussions in the RUAF advisory group on gender and urban agriculture as a first step in the preparation of the planned expert consultation and as an input for the RUAF-IDRC Workshop on Gender in Urban Agriculture, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in July 2003. Author: Joanna Wilbers