Cities farming for the future : urban agriculture for green and productive cities / edited by Rene van Veenhuizen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.

Veenhuizen, René van.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crop science.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : International Development Research Centre ; Silang, Philippines : International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction, Cities Farming for the Future""; ""2 Sustaining Urban Agriculture Requires the Involvement of Multiple Stakeholders""; ""3 Integration of Agriculture in Urban Land Use Planning and Adaptation of City Regulations""; ""4 Financing and Investment for Urban Agriculture""; ""5 Gendering the Urban Agriculture Agenda""; ""6 Urban Agriculture and the Building of Communities""; ""7 Local Economic Development and Marketing of Urban Produced Food""; ""8 Recycling of Urban Organic Waste for Urban Agriculture""

""9 Wastewater Use for Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture""""10 Participatory Technology Development for Urban Agriculture: collaboration and adaptation along the urban-rural transect""; ""11 Urban Horticulture""; ""12 Livestock Keeping in Urbanised Areas, does history repeat itself?""; ""13 Urban Aquatic Production""; ""14 Urban Forestry for Multifunctional Urban Land Use""; ""List of Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures, Tables and Boxes""; ""The Authors""; ""The Cases""; ""RUAF Partners List""; ""General Resources""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-71816-1

9786610718160

1-55250-216-3

OCLC:

923637122