Appendices:
The following tables are from the 1996 UNDP/TUAN Monograph Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities.
World Population Actively Engaged 800 million Farmers Producing for Market in the World 200 million Jobs* in World in Production and Processing 150 million
Preponderant
range of data
Global general
significance
Participants: 15% to 70% of families (share of urban families) about one third of urban families Production: 10% to 90% of consumption (vegetables, eggs, meat/fish) about one third of consumption Land Use: 20% to 60% of urban area (land in agricultural use) over one third of urban regions Source: Estimates by The Urban Agriculture Network based on the authors' experiences and observations and on extrapolations from statistics from various official censuses and professional surveys. The intent is to present a thumbnail sketch of the significance of the industry. More systematic estimation would be a major contribution to the body of knowledge.
* Actual employment, not job equivalents
Table 2. Local support organizations active in urban agriculture (some examples)
Organization Location Project Description Urban Food Foundation Philippines Instrumental in forming a coop of 500 small livestock producers SODEM Chile Uses model gardens to train home gardeners. Provides extension help Undugu Kenya Supports urban farming for food security, enterprise, disaster mgmt CET Chile Training and extension to low-income for biointensive gardening Peru Mujer Peru Training and organizing community gardens for low-income women Grupo de Estudios Mexico Provides technical advice to Chinampas farmers Kinshasa farmers' cooperative Zaire Facilitates access to inputs, land, and markets Indonesia national agronomists association Indonesia Provides information and lobbies the government
Table 3.
Governmental organizations active in urban agriculture (some examples)
Organization Location Project Description Mexico City Water Authority Mexico City City Provides irrigation and oversight of peri-urban farming Calcutta Port Auth. Calcutta Leases land and lagoons to coops Maputo Municipality Mozambique Land-owning partner with women's food production coop Indonesia Hwy. Auth. Indonesia Leases ROW land to urban farmers Jakarta Water Auth. Jakarta Formed joint venture with fishermen to harvest reservoirs. Elec. Authorities Canada Produces vegetables in greenhouse Municipality Munich Produces fish in sewage lagoons Municipalities Jakarta, Mexico City, Buenos Aires Have an urban agriculture agency US military USA Leases land on bases to farmers Nat'l Government Argentina and Peru Established national agencies for urban agriculture Nat'l Government Panama, Tanzania and Zambia Have recently adopted policies that favor urban agriculture
Nat'l Government Italy, China, Japan, Singapore, Netherlands Implemented urban agriculture policy and established agencies for decades Nat'l Government Malawi and Tanzania New capitals planned to include urban agriculture
Organization Location Project Description
Sokoine U. Morogoro, Tanzania Two-year survey of six cities AIT Bangkok, Thailand Pilot projects in intensive ag. techniques U. of Philippines Los Baños Research on small-scale farming Centre pour le Dev't de l'Hort. Sénégal Research and extension on urban horticulture AVRDC Taiwan Urban horticulture and household gardens research and extension in East Asia and Africa CIPES Peru Wastewater aquaculture and horticulture CANELO Chile Nine research projects in urban farming technologies Mazingira Inst. Kenya Survey of UA in six cities Univ. of Cairo Egypt Plastic tunnel horticulture Centro Las Gaviotas Columbia Hydroponics for low-income high-density communities Makerere Univ. Uganda Research and surveys on UA Botanical Garden Jakarta Research on composting with small-scale urban farmers
Table 5.
International agencies supporting urban agriculture (some examples)
Organization Location Project Description FAO & IDRC Latin America Supporting new regional network FAO Several Supported street food upgrading projects UNDP and FAO Latin America Supported shantytown hydroponics projects UNDP/WB Global Programs in wastewater-fed fish and irrigation UNICEF Global Household and community gardens, policy studies United Nations University Global Funded Food-Energy Nexus Program (1980s) UN/CHS Tanzania Supporting UA as environmental intervention in open space NRI/ODA, UK Tanzania City centre and peri-urban vegetable production & training IDRC (Canada) Global Funds urban agriculture surveys and research projects USAID (USA) Philippines & Thailand Supported urban agriculture in its MEREC program (1980s) GTZ (Germany) Mexico City & Tanzania Supports sewage-fed fisheries, composting, and veget. projects Italian Government Argentina Supports community gardens SIDA (Sweden) Mozambique & Ethiopia Provided support for urban agriculture in the 1980's JICA (Japan) Philippines and others Supports urban agriculture and marketing Taiwan Government Panama Supports urban agriculture and provides fellowships in Taiwan Inter-American Foundation Chile Supports urban gardening programs Ford Foundation Nairobi Supports an NGO, Undugu Soc. Oxfam Peru Supports an NGO, Peru Mujer Save the Children Central America Support for local gardening CARE International Haiti Promoting UA entrepreneurship
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