• Urban and peri-urban agriculture

Urban and peri-urban agriculture

The book aims to enhance understanding of the role urban agriculture can play in promoting inclusive, green and productive cities and provide ways to facilitate safe and sustainable urban agriculture. The publication draws on contributions by the International Network on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) and from others who have collaborated with RUAF. With an emphasis on practical lessons, it aims to be a valuable resource for local policymakers, urban planners, organisations of urban farmers, NGOs and other stakeholders in urban agriculture.

The authors highlight recent progress by many cities on urban agriculture, through policy changes and the design of adequate programmes involving various stakeholders from governmental and private sectors. Since 1999, the RUAF partners have worked to improve access to information on urban agriculture of local authorities, NGOs, farmer organisations and other stakeholders, and in enhancing the capacity of such organisations to engage in local participatory processes of diagnosis and strategic action planning on urban agriculture.

Issues discussed include the following:

• the importance of involving multiple stakeholders
• integration of agriculture in urban land use planning
• financing and investment for urban agriculture 
• gender and the urban agriculture agenda
• local economic development and marketing of urban produced food 
• livestock keeping in urbanised areas
• urban aquatic production 

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