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1 online resource (xiii, 459 pages) : illustrations |
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Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction, Cities Farming for the Future -- 2 Sustaining Urban Agriculture Requires the Involvement of Multiple Stakeholders -- 3 Integration of Agriculture in Urban Land Use Planning and Adaptation of City Regulations -- 4 Financing and Investment for Urban Agriculture -- 5 Gendering the Urban Agriculture Agenda -- 6 Urban Agriculture and the Building of Communities -- 7 Local Economic Development and Marketing of Urban Produced Food -- 8 Recycling of Urban Organic Waste for Urban Agriculture |
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9 Wastewater Use for Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture10 Participatory Technology Development for Urban Agriculture: collaboration and adaptation along the urban-rural transect -- 11 Urban Horticulture -- 12 Livestock Keeping in Urbanised Areas, does history repeat itself? -- 13 Urban Aquatic Production -- 14 Urban Forestry for Multifunctional Urban Land Use -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- The Authors -- The Cases -- RUAF Partners List -- General Resources |
| Summary |
Urban agriculture is the growing of plants and the raising of animals for food and other uses, and related processing and marketing activities, within and around cities and towns. In the past few years, it has received increasing attention from development organizations and national and local authorities in developing countries. With its multiple functions, urban agriculture plays an important role in urban poverty alleviation and social inclusion, urban food security, urban waste management, and urban greening. Since 1999, partners of the International Network on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) have been playing a crucial role in improving access to information on urban agriculture and in enhancing the capacities of local authorities, NGOs, farmer organizations, and other stakeholders regarding local participatory diagnosis and strategic action planning on urban agriculture. This book presents the state of the art in the development of sustainable urban agriculture, and will be primarily of interest to municipal authorities, NGOs, community-based organizations, governmental organizations, and other stakeholders and development practitioners in urban agriculture |
| Analysis |
Urban agriculture |
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Urban land use -- Agricultural activities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Urban agriculture.
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Food supply
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Land use, Urban.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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urban land use.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
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Food supply
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Land use, Urban
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Sustainable agriculture
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Urban agriculture
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Städtische Landwirtschaft
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Stadt
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Garten
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Veenhuizen, René van
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RUAF Foundation.
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International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.
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International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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| ISBN |
9781552502167 |
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1552502163 |
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1930261144 |
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9781930261143 |
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