Cities and Agriculture

Henk de Zeeuw is Senior Advisor at the RUAF Foundation, based in Leusden, the Netherlands. The RUAF Foundation (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) is a global network and a leading centre of expertise in the field of (intra- and peri-) Urban Agriculture and City Region Food Strategies. Pay Drechsel is Principal Researcher at the International Water Management Institute, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Leader of the Flagship on Recovering and Reusing Resources in Urbanized Ecosystems of the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program.

From the Foreword: "I can only congratulate the many scientists and practitioners for their valuable contributions to this important publication and very much hope it will find its way to national and local policy-makers, urban planners, academia, non-governmental groups, producers and consumers organizations, private sector companies and others that can make a contribution to building more resilient food systems through concerted and far-sighted action at the level of the city region." - HRH The Prince of Wales

• 1. Urban Food Systems Johannes S.C. Wiskerke 2. Urban Food Policies and Programmes: An Overview Lauren Baker and Henk de Zeeuw 3. Process and Tools for Multi-stakeholder Planning of the Urban Agro-food System Henk de Zeeuw and Marielle Dubbeling 4. Agriculture in Urban Design and Spatial Planning Andre Viljoen, Johannes Schlesinger, Katrin Bohn and Axel Drescher 5. Urban Agriculture and Short Chain Food Marketing in Developing Countries Paule Moustier and Henk Renting 6. Urban Agriculture’s Contributions to Urban Food Security and Nutrition Maria Gerster-Bentaya 7. Productive and Safe Use of Urban Organic Wastes and Wastewater in Urban Food Production Systems in Low-income Countries Pay Drechsel, Ben Keraita, Olufunke Cofie and J. Nikiema 8. Urban Agriculture and Climate Change Shuaib Lwasa and Marielle Dubbeling 9. Urban Horticulture Hubert de Bon, Robert J. Holmer and Christine Aubry 10. Urban Livestock Keeping Delia Grace, Johanna Lindahl, Maria Correa and Manish Kakkar 11. Urban (Agro-)forestry Fabio Salbitano 12. Urban Aquaculture for Resilient Food Systems Stuart Bunting and David Little 13. Gendering Urban Food Strategies across Multiple Scales Liam Riley and Alice Hovorka 14. Financing Urban Agriculture: What Do We Know and What Should We Know Yves Cabannes 15. Role of Urban Agriculture in Disasters and Emergencies Andrew Adam-Bradford and René van Veenhuizen