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 · 16 November 2023 English
The Kenya Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aims to identify the impact of climate change on Kenya’s economy. Through robust and rigorous analyses that cover climate impact modeling across …
scarcity has been established to have impacts on urban agriculture, sanitation practices and industrial activities …
ETF: European Training Foundation · 16 November 2023 English
The Role of Centres of Vocational Excellence in the Green Transition Building evidence to support vocational excellence for the digital and green transitions The Role of Centres of Vocational Excellence …
2030 targets: The Eco Stewardship Programme urban agriculture and green financing. Increase solar energy …
UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 10 November 2023 English
Necessary interventions, supported the city – such as the subdivision of Douala 4 – have by the institutions and stakeholders, include the been overtaken by the urban sprawl of Douala …
/ Piers and landing stages construction • Urban agriculture LONG • Public space • Development of sustainable … development / Piers and landing stages construction Urban agriculture Public space Online exchange platform, newsletters … development / Piers and landing stages construction Urban agriculture Public space Online exchange platform, newsletters … Construction of parks with retention ponds Urban agriculture Creation of health centres and mobile medical … programme families: • Environment: Development of urban agriculture • Basic infrastructures. projects • Environment …
World Bank Group · 6 November 2023 English
tea) and food crops; (iv) promotion of urban agriculture to support the urban dwellers with food security; …
CANSA: Climate Action Network South Asia · 2 November 2023 English
Key issues associated with the urban poor include lack of government recognition to the informal settlements, basic safety of lives and livelihoods, frequent flooding and inundation of the settlements followed …
urbanization, food insecurity issues surface and urban agriculture could be a means to decrease food supply risks … in town. The advancement of urban and peri-urban agriculture can help to manage urban waste for food production; … the 14th Plan, recommended the promotion of urban agriculture in urban areas to produce food itself to some … of Food Green City (FGC), i.e. integrating urban agriculture with urban planning. Many people who lack … Corbould, C. (2013). Feeding the cities: is urban agriculture the future of food security?. Devkota, K. …
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative · 31 October 2023 English
The goal was to shape the administration in ways that would help “institute big promises of reform,” Wu recalled, “while bringing along the existing organization.”2 (See Appendix 1 for the …
producers, as well as direct resources to expand urban agriculture. 14. Growing the Urban Tree Use priority planting …
UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 30 October 2023 English
In of the programme is to improve the lives and addition, in 2022, G7 nations recognized the role of livelihoods of people working and living in slums cities in fighting …
Climate Resilience in Informal Areas Finally, urban agriculture can be understood as a nature-based food security … of urban areas. With the rapid instance, urban agriculture can provide residents growth of urban areas … resources will be poorly deployed. Promote urban agriculture: Households in informal areas can become more …
IIHS: Indian Institute for Human Settlements · 26 October 2023 English
Weekly farm visits involved keen observation and description of the space, the soil, the farming process, the various stages of growth of the ragi crop and the myriad insects Figure …
Cities Lessons for urban agriculture practices in India Urban and peri-urban agriculture as green infrastructure … research project, examines the implications of urban agriculture on human well-being and urban sustainability … To examine the impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) on built infrastructure, ecosystem services … 2023. Sowing Sustainable Cities: lessons for urban agriculture practices in India. IIHS - UPAGrI Project … Preface Sowing Sustainable Cities: Lessons for Urban Agriculture Practices in India Sheetal Patil, Nitya Rao …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 25 October 2023 English
transition to sustainable food systems in the LAC region benefits from enhanced urban and peri-urban agriculture practices. This session, therefore, explores the nexus of sustainable land management, food …
region bene�ts from enhanced urban and peri-urban agriculture practices. This session, therefore, explores …
AUDA-NEPAD: African Union Development Agency-NEPAD · 24 October 2023 English
The Summit presented new actions to progress towards of stakeholders to collaborate and share their Multi-stakeholder dialogue allows multiple actors to experiences with the goal of transforming food the seventeen …
material resources to develop value agriculture, urban agriculture and landless an issue in the Seychelles. The … extension services such as roof gardening and urban agriculture. and the need for improved coordination between …
