region: Global
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 23 – Sustainable Urban Nutrient Management
This Urban Agriculture Magazine looks at closing the nutrient loop and the role urban agriculture can play in sustainable urban nutrient management.
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Women Feeding Cities – Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security
Women Feeding Cities analyses the roles of women and men in urban food production, and suggests with guidelines and tools how women’s contribution might be maximised.
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Key Issues and Courses of Action for Municipal Policy Making on Urban Agriculture
The RUAF working paper 2 presents policy measures and strategies applied by local governments to facilitate the development of urban agriculture.
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Cities, Food and Agriculture: Challenges and the way forward
RUAF Working paper 3 discusses a number of challenges cities in developing countries are facing nowadays and what role urban agriculture can play.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 22 – Building Resilient Cities
The magazine addresses questions such as how urban agriculture can combat the negative impacts of rapidly rising food prices, how it can reduce a city’s ecological footprint and its role in adaptation to the effects of climate change, what should be the role of policies and institutions in the building of resilient cities.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 21 – Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development
In this issue we focus on the role urban agriculture plays in linking relief, rehabilitation and development following a disaster or in emergency situations. Different types of disasters and resulting impacts are discussed and illustrated by articles in this magazine.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 20 – Water for Urban Agriculture
In this issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine, the importance of the water-sanitation-agriculture nexus is highlighted. Increasingly it is realised that urban agriculture may contribute to resolving urban problems related to water and waste and wastewater management.
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Cities Farming for the Future Programme. Final report
Final report of the Cities Farming for the Future programme with a synthesis of the main results achieved during the project period (2005-2008).
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 19 – Stimulating Innovation in Urban Agriculture
This issue of the Urban Agriculture Magazine takes stock of a broad range of experiences related to innovation by urban farmers and the efforts of other actors to support the farmers’ initiatives. It explains concepts and gives examples of farmers’ innovation and how it is being stimulated.