Resource Guide on Urban Agriculture

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.