URBAN AND PERIURBAN AGRICULTURE ON THE POLICY AGENDA

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE AND INFORMATION MARKET
August 21 - September 30, 2000

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Food For The Cities Interdepartmental Working Group and Rural Development Division of the Sustainable Development Department	Resource Centre for Urban Agriculture and Forestry RUAF

 FINAL REPORT 

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PARTICIPANTS

The conference invites everybody interested in urban and peri-urban agriculture and especially urban planners and municipalities, researchers and practitioners to participate by sharing needs, research results, questions, and project ideas.

Objectives

• To promote the integration of urban agriculture into national and - especially - municipal sectoral policies
• To stimulate local initiatives regarding identification and formulation of programmes and projects on urban agriculture in developing countries
• To increase awareness among policy-makers of the role of UPA in addressing urban food insecurity

CENTRAL THEMES

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss, present ideas, and suggest needs about three themes.

To read the contributions which have been made so far please select one of the themes:

Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA), food security and nutrition,	Discussion paper
UPA, health and the urban environment	Discussion paper
UPA and urban planning	Discussion paper

INFORMATION MARKET

As part of the conference website an information market will be maintained where participants and other interested people can find other articles, papers, case studies and other documents of interest. The market will also provide information on relevant websites, journals and resource organisations as well as a link to a discussion on training needs in UPA. Go To Information market