Focus-area: Urban agriculture
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Reshaping the food system: what cities can do
A TEDx presentation by Joy Carey talking about the need to rethink our food systems and how the consequences of continuing with ‘business as usual’ impact on cities. She calls for alternatives to the current global food systems and how action at a city level can influence positive change, taking Bristol as an example.
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Urban Farming in Nepal and Uganda
This film, by Kyle Robinson, investigates the use of urban and peri-urban agriculture in developing cities in Africa and Asia such as Kathmandu and Kampala. The film assesses its value to a country’s economy and combating environmental threats such as climate change, as well as addressing the challenges involved in nurturing and sustaining effective urban…
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Guideline 3: Calculating climate change related indicators of urban/regional food production and consumption
This manual proposes a methodology to calculate climate change related indicators of urban/regional food production and consumption.
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Guideline 2: Monitoring of temperature effects
This guideline assesses the hypothesis that urban agriculture and forestry will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savings.
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Guideline 1: Monitoring of runoff and infiltration of storm water
This manual proposes a methodology to relate scenarios of urban land use (like an increase of green areas) to changes in runoff and flood risk.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine: A city compilation
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact is going to be one of the most important legacies of Expo 2015. It acknowledges that cities, which host over half the world’s population, have a strategic role to play in developing sustainable food systems and promoting healthy diets and improved urban environments. To this date, about 50 cities…
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Policy brief: Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans
This policy brief highlights how Sri Lanka develops urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a city and provincial climate change strategy.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 27 – Climate change and disaster risk reduction
This Urban Agriculture Magazine explores how urban agriculture can offer mitigation and adaptation strategies to cities dealing with climate change.
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Rooftop gardening in Kathmandu, Nepal
This video shows the results of the rooftop gardening project that was implemented by the NGO ENPHO in close collaboration with Kathmandu Municipality and with technical support of RUAF Foundation in the context of the broader project undertaken by these organisations together with UN Habitat aiming at the integration of (intra- and peri-) urban agriculture…
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SUPERBFOOD Synthesis report Innovative experiences with (peri-) urban agriculture and urban food provisioning
Synthesis report on innovative experiences with urban agriculture in short food chains, waste reuse and multifunctionality in cities in the Global South.