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    This video portrays Francis Wachira, one of Kenya’s most successful urban farmers in Nairobi. Francis a pioneer, leader, a mentor and role model embodies the spirit and promise of a new dawn of urbanisation, one that recognises the vital role of urban farmers.

    May 20, 2019
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    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. […]

    October 20, 2018
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    Toronto won the 2017 Milan Pact Awards with the highest score for the good practice Community Food Works for Newcomers: Using food as tool for settlement and integration. The programme provides training at no cost to obtain a Food Handler Training and Certification and supports refugees and low-income residents who are job-ready to access employment […]

    October 20, 2017
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    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.

    November 21, 2014
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    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 […]

    November 21, 2014
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    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 […]

    February 25, 2014