Resource Guide on Urban Agriculture

Author(s)
ETC Ecoculture
Publication language
English
Pages
289pp
Date published
01 Jul 1998
Publisher
Wietse Bruinsma, Marielle Dubbeling
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Livelihoods, Urban

This Resource Guide contains a selection of information about persons and organisations with expertise that is relevant for the formulation and implementation of policies, plans and projects on Urban Agriculture. In addition, it contains a section with descriptions of useful newsletters and websites.
The urban agriculture referred to in this Guide is food and fuel grown within the city and in peri-urban areas including:
- Crop production: open field horticulture, roof top gardens, community gardens, backyard
gardens, hydroponics, school and prison gardens
- Urban animal production in backyards, on roadsides and along railroads, on roof tops (poultry,
pigs, goats, rabbits, cattle)
- Aquaculture in tanks, ponds and rivers
- Urban forestry: trees for fruits, fuel, shade in backyards along streets, on steep slopes and
along rivers
- The reuse of urban organic solid wastes (composting, vermiculture) and waste water (for
irrigation and nutrients).
The guide is subdivided in three sections: Organisations; Persons; Journals and Web Sites. The index helps to identify persons and organisations according to their fields of expertise, regional focus and organisational type. In the current set-up there is some overlap in information between the different sections of the Guide. Although such redundancy is less desirable from the point of database management, this set-up was chosen in order to realise greater user-friendliness.