Urban Agriculture
Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. Urban agriculture is also the term used for animal husbandry, aquaculture, urban beekeeping, and horticulture. These activities occur in peri-urban areas as well. Peri-urban agriculture may have different characteristics.Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. It may be a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers, "foodies," and "locavores" form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can evolve when receiving formal institutional support, becoming integrated into …
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World Bank Group · 23 October 2024 English
The Climate Support Facility (CSF) provides critical support to countries, propelling them toward realizing their climate goals. As a Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) in the World Bank's Climate Change Group, …
Area 3: Targeted Interventions 1 0 Finance Urban Agriculture Macroeconomics Environment Poverty Transport …
ICIPE: African Insect Science for Food and Health · 18 October 2024 English
He was promoted to the position of a Research Scientist on 1 September 2016 in the Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics (MBBU) Unit and became head of the Unit on 9 …
focus or interest areas are in urban and peri-urban agriculture in developing world, Geographical Information …
UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 10 October 2024 English
In December 2023, the Government of Nepal launched a report on the degree of urbanization in Nepal.28 The report included a redefinition of the classification of Nepalese urban areas and …
water-scarce communities, permeable pavements, urban agriculture and support for renewable energy utilization … Amman Municipality, features sustainable urban agriculture components, such as a greenhouse, a water …
UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 9 October 2024 English
The Programme was established in the continuity of support provided by UN-Habitat to the country of Nepal in the aftermath of the 1988 earthquake and in the formulation of Nepal’s …
water-scarce communities, permeable pavements, urban agriculture and support for renewable energy utilization …
GGGI: Global Green Growth Institute · 4 October 2024 English
The segments expertise and experience in adaptation planning, developing NAPs of the elements in the pie-chart represents the distribution of the and implementing climate adaptation actions. [...] The research team …
current adaptive capacities in the country? • Urban • Agriculture (fisheries and food security) A good NAP … National Adaptation Plans: A Global Review Urban Agriculture (fisheries, and food security) Migration from …
UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 1 October 2024 English
In addition, the annex to this report HSP/EB.2024[…] presents an update to the preliminary report on the status of the development of the efforts to reconstruct the human settlements in …
water-scarce communities, permeable pavements, urban agriculture and support for renewable energy utilization … Amman Municipality, features sustainable urban agriculture components, such as a greenhouse, water tank …
EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 11 September 2024 English
community centers and transit systems to promote food access and literacy; providing support for urban agriculture; and adopting healthy and sustainable procurement practices and waste recovery initiatives. …
access and literacy; providing support for urban agriculture; and adopting healthy and sustainable procurement … rooted in actionable steps food initiatives, urban agriculture and Jargon or terms that the general public …
World Bank Group · 11 September 2024 English
bananas and fruits are the most sold items. For urban agriculture most are growing vegetables, cassava, banana …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 11 September 2024 English
Integrated assessment models that incorporate biodiversity and ecosystem services could be an important tool for improving our understanding of interconnected social-economic-ecological systems, and for analyzing how policy alternatives can shift …
ecosystem services (e.g., urban cooling, urban agriculture, stormwater protection, recrea- tion opportunities) …
New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center · 6 September 2024 English
On April 10, 2024, Duke Farms, a center for the Doris Duke Foundation, in partnership with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, and the …
Taylor encouraged a more formal structure for urban agriculture. The discussions at the Climate Summit underscored …
