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Comunidad de Cerro Norte

Reports & Research
Mayo, 2016
Colombia

El barrio de Cerro Norte constituye un territorio para muchos de sus habitantes, geográficamente ubicado en la frontera donde se acaba lo urbano y empieza lo rural, Cerro Norte ha sido un espacio forjado al calor de conflictos y luchas por el acceso a la tierra, a los servicios, al agua y a la soberanía alimentaria.

El retorno a la tierra de Petrona Alcón

Reports & Research
Junio, 2016
Bolivia

Este es el caso de una propiedad familiar donde la necesidad del retorno a la tierra familiar impulsada por el peligro de pérdida del terreno ante la muerte del progenitor (propietario), y la mejora en las condiciones de vida que en este caso están expresadas en prácticas innovadoras, frente a los términos en los que el mercado convencional se desarrolla.

LA PERSPECTIVA AGROPOLITANA: LA GESTIÓN SIMBIONTE CAMPO – CIUDAD EN LA POLÍTICA REGIONAL. UNA VISIÓN DESDE ESPAÑA

Reports & Research
Abril, 2009
Europa

En la década de los setenta del pasado siglo XX, y más claramente en la siguiente, se hizo patente en Europa el escepticismo sobre la eficacia de los instrumentos para el diseño de las políticas de desarrollo regional.

La integración de la Agricultura Urbana en el Desarrollo Sostenible de las municipalidades (Declaración y memoria)

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2003
América Latina y el Caribe

Este encuentro surge como una de las actividades previstas en el proyecto “Enfrentando la Pobreza Urbana a través de la Agricultura, Caso Cono Este de Lima, Perú” y fue co-organizado por el Programa Cosecha Urbana (Iniciativa Global del CGIAR para la Agricultura Urbana y Periurbana), el Programa de Gestión Urbana de la ONU para América Latina y el Caribe, la Red Latinoamericana de Investigaciones en Agricultura Urbana (AGUILA) y la Municipalidad de Lurigancho-Chosica.

Animal husbandry in cities – using potentials, reducing risks

Journal Articles & Books
Octubre, 2014
Global

Not only rabbits and guinea-pigs but sheep, goats, cattle and pigs also play a crucial role in the food and income situation of countless city-dwellers world-wide. However, when people and animals live in such close proximity, health risks are inevitable. But instead of banning urban animal husbandry, as was, for example, considered in the course of the swine influenza epidemic, framework conditions ought to be created that enable people to make use of this business branch to earn a profit without running risks.

Tuning in to consumers: Tailoring African rice value chains to urban markets

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2010
Senegal

In response to the 2008 food crisis, Senegal developed an ambitious food self-sufficiency programme which aims to entirely cover national rice consumption needs with local rice by 2015, mainly through massive investments in existing and new rice perimeters in the Senegal River Valley (SRV). It has yet to be seen, however, how the projected rice production boom will reach urban markets, where the product is often unknown or misconstrued.

Decree No. 27 of State Property Committee validating the Regulation on cadastre valuation of urban land and agricultural land of horticulture and gardening cooperatives and updating its data.

Regulations
Belarús
Europa oriental
Europa

This Decree establishes the modalities of cadastre valuation of agricultural land and updating its data related to plots of agricultural land allotted for urban and peri-urban agriculture to horticulture and gardening cooperatives, and also the land or urban areas. Cadastre valuation of agricultural land shall be conducted on 1 July of the year of performance of cadastre valuation. Cadastre valuation of the aforesaid land categories shall be performed by initiative of State Property Committee at least once in 4 years.

Regional Law No. 27-OZ amending Regional Law No. 63-OZ on maximum size of the plots of land conceded to citizens in ownership.

Legislation
Rusia
Europa oriental
Europa

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “This Regional Law establishes maximum and minimum land areas of land plots destined for consolidation and allotment in ownership to citizens for gardening, horticulture, urban and peri-urban agriculture and stockbreeding out of stock of public and municipal land that has no land-use planning documentation for construction purposes by the date of 1 March 2015”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 63-OZ on maximum size of the plots of land conceded to citizens in ownership. (2003-12-10)

Urban forestry: cities, trees and people

Journal Articles & Books
Noviembre, 1987
Bangladesh
España
Chile
Estados Unidos de América
Italia

Given the monumental challenges facing today's world - widespread poverty, urban blight, illiteracy, tropical deforestation and the threat of nuclear war, to name only a few - it may seem quite irrelevant to devote an issue of Unasylva to the rather tame-sounding subject of urban forestry. To millions of homeless or starving or unemployed people in the urban centres of the developing world, how important can urban forestry really be? In truth, urban forestry, as sometimes practiced, does tend to benefit the well-to-do at the expense of the underprivileged.

Fighting Poverty and Hunger

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2010
Nepal
Pakistán
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Nicaragua
Albania
Guatemala
Madagascar
Indonesia
Bulgaria
Ghana
Ecuador
Malawi
Italia
Panamá

Towns and cities are growing rapidly in developing countries. This process is often accompanied by high levels of poverty and hunger, leading many urban dwellers to engage in farming activities to help satisfy their food needs. Policy makers need to recognize this reality and actively seize the opportunities offered by urban agriculture.

Programa Solidario Patio Saludable: desde un proyecto a una política pública

Policy Papers & Briefs
Octubre, 2016
Nicaragua
Américas

En esta publicación se hace un resumen de cómo el Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional valoró muy bien la iniciativa de agricultura urbana y periurbana y el 14 de mayo del 2012 retoma la idea del proyecto, lo renombra y lo lanza como programa público denominado “Programa Solidario Patio Saludable”. Aquí se dan a conocer las metas del programa y algunos aspectos de importancia de dicha política.