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.

This is a series of 5 Policy Briefs produced under the EU funded PAPUSSA (Production in Aquatic Peri-urban Systems in Southeast Asia) project, a collaborative reserach project of European organisations and Asian partners in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and Bangkok in Thailand (www.papussa.org). Elaboration: Marielle Dubbeling, ETC Urban Agriculture (m.dubbeling@etcnl.nl); language editing: William Lesschen; Graphic design: Zonacuario, Quito, Ecuador.

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.

This presentation describes the process of the "Optimization of vacant land for urban agriculture", a programme simultaneously implemented in 3 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The programme was coordinated by the Urban Management Programme - Regional Coordination for Latin America and the Caribbean (UMP-LAC/UNHABITAT), IPES-Promocion for Sustainable Development Research Centre (IDRC),  and implemented with support of the Municipality of Rosario, CEPAR and CEAH - National University of Rosario.

Slideshow on lessons learned in urban agriculture on the website of IDRC

Please click on this link http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/video/ to watch videos by Michael Levenston on:

• Vacant Lot in Down

Thilak T. Ranasinghe

In: UA Magazine no. 19 - Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture

Home gardening is usually seen as a subsistence-oriented production system. However, in urban and suburban areas land is a precious
resource, which is why home gardening can be turned into a profitable production system. In this context the concept of the Family Business Garden was launched on World Environment Day 2000 in Sri Lanka.