Focus-area: Urban agriculture
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Atlas of West African urban food systems
This atlas summarises recent research to address different components of West African urban food systems, including urban and peri-urban agriculture.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 35 – Youth in Food. Opportunities for education and employment
This issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine explores challenges and solutions raised by migration pressures with a focus on youth employment in city region food systems.
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Future Policy Award 2018: Participatory urban agriculture programme in Quito
With its Participatory Urban Agriculture Programme (AGRUPAR), Quito won the Silver Award of the Future Policy Award 2018 on Agroecology. AGRUPAR was developed on the basis of a broad, largely women-led community consultation. It explicitly recognizes the role of urban agriculture for wider social, ecological and economic development and works along the entire food chain.…
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 34 – Measuring Impact
With this magazine we explore how assessment frameworks have supported cities in the planning and monitoring of their food strategies and policies.
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Rooftop Urban Agriculture
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific…
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Policy brief: Integrated development of biogas in West Africa
Policy brief on integrated development of biogas in West Africa based on findings from the Western Africa Bio-wastes for Energy and Fertilizer project.
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Lecture by Luc Mougeot (IDRC) on urban agricultures without borders
Luc talks about: Urban Agricultures Without Borders: Lessons, Logics and Liabilities. Recorded at the Agri4D Conference on Rural Transformation and Urbanization – 20 September 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Entrepreneurship in Urban Agriculture
RUAF with the University of Bologna, Horticity, Agreenium, Vegepolys, SWUAS, Hei-tro, STePS, Mammut film and Grow the Planet developed a distance learning course in the framework of the Urban Green Train project. The consortium developed a series of 5 modules on urban agriculture and entrepreneurship: 1: Introduction to urban agriculture concept and types 2: Resource…
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology
This issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine by RUAF and the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience documents the emerging field of urban agroecology.