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RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security

RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security

Urban Farming The practice of cultivating food and raising animals in an urban environment is referred to variously as urban farming or urban agriculture. Whilst small-scale and localised food production has a long history, including individual allotments which have been popular in Europe since the late C18, it is the integration of such farming practices within the economic and ecological system of towns and cities that is a newer development. This means that urban resources such as compost from food waste and waste water from urban drainage is made use of, whilst urban problems such as the pressure on land and development also have to be negotiated. The recent of example of Cuba has proven the effectiveness of urban agriculture, where it played a critical role in ensuring food security after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Other Work Andre Viljoen (ed.), Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities (Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005).

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International Peasant Conference : Stop the land grab Details Published on Friday, 02 December 2011 14:17 From the Nyéléni Village - Selingué – Mali – 17 November 2011 Interview with Ndiakhate Fall, from the region of Thies, Ville de Mecklie, member of the CMCR (Conseil National de Concertation et de Cooperation des Ruraux) that is the platform of peasants’ organisations in Senegal, member of Via Campesina. I am a farmer. First of all the extension of cities. Another example is from the valley of Fanaye, where an Italian company has received 150.000 hectares of land from the government. At present, thanks to the information campaigns developed by peasants organizations and other civil society organisations many farmers are refusing to be pushed off their land. Civil society and peasants’ organisations struggle together In Fanaye, an Italian company (SENETHANOL) asked for land to build a factory for the production and processing of agrofuels. Management of land in Senegal The importance of this first peasants forum against land-grabbing

What We’re About – Grown in Totnes Grown in Totnes is about increasing the range of local food available to the Totnes area. Our local farmers mainly produce meat and dairy. We need more variety for a healthy, balanced and climate sensitive diet. Grown in Totnes is particularly interested in those staple crops that can be dried and stored; these principally include grains and pulses, including the many varieties of peas, lentils and beans. The need for locally grown staples was a key insight from an exercise to map Totnes’s local food web, carried out by GinT member Holly Tiffen, in collaboration with the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Several grains and pulses are well suited to the climatic conditions of the South West, but in mapping the local food web we discovered that currently those grown here are destined primarily for animal feed. Grown in Totnes is filling this gap in local food by keeping the growing, processing, packaging and selling of these staples all within 30 miles of Totnes. We: Like this:

Eat The Suburbs! AgriUrbain | la veille scientifique sur la recherche et les projets en agriculture urbaine Essay: Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability Can products be made hackable, or are all products hackable? At our panel at DIS2004, Anne Galloway defined designing for hackability as "allowing and encouraging people to make technologies be what they want them to be." Yet, as the architect Cedric Price might have said," technology is the answer, but what is the question"? Because effectively, all products are hackable. If we define a hackable product as 'a product capable of being modified by its user' then we've seen pretty much everything hacked. That definition is fairly broad, but hacking itself has a long history. But if this definition appears too wide to be useful, it's worth noting the range of products that have been hacked, apparently irrespective of size, solidity, complexity. Software is incredibly malleable of course, even that which is explicitly designed not to be hacked (cf. operating systems, digital rights management software etc.). What types of things can be designed into products to make them more hackable?

Beer Beer: Making Bread And Mushrooms A traditional brewery of today (see model of traditional brewery below), that brews beer according to the German purity standards, produces beer, but also produces organic waste streams and lost energy. This waste from the brewery is organic material which means that its polluting effect could be seen as minimal. However, given the quantity of water needed for the large volumes of beer produced by today's breweries (up to more than 20 liters of water per liter of brewed beer), this organic waste is a problem. It is also a waste considering the amount of nutrients and protein used from the grains in the beer-brewing process. A small percentage of the nutrients are used, and the protein is left untouched in the spent grains after the process. Traditional Brewery Process Flow Diagram What is Zero Emissions about? Michael McBride, Stormbrewing, Newfoundland. Article published in Canada, August 18, 1999 ZERI Brewery Process Flow Diagram What happened here?

Présentation de l'association Agir pour l'Environnement | Association Agir pour l'Environnement Agir pour l'Environnement est une association citoyenne nationale de protection de l'environnement. Le but de l'association est de faire pression sur les responsables politiques et décideurs économiques en menant des campagnes de mobilisation citoyenne réunissant un réseau d'associations et de citoyens le plus large possible. Le bureau de l'association est composé de : Philippe COLOMB (Président)Clémence LERONDEAU (Secrétaire)Jean HASCOËT (Trésorier) L'équipe permanente de l'association est composée de : Stéphen KERCKHOVE (Délégué général)Martin SERIEYE (Chargé de mission : WEB)Benjamin MENANT (Développeur : WEB)Magali RINGOOT (Chargée de mission)Mathias CHAPLAIN (Chargé de mission)Antoine LAGNEAU (Chargé de mission)Céline MISERYMichèle DOUGÉ (En charge de l'administratif)Aliénor LEGENDRESolène BOULLIOU (Service civique)Marie-Laure PARISOT (Service civique) Consulter les statuts de l'association. Le projet de budget 2017

Urban Agri_Polis - Project Library Rikke Hedegaard ChristensenEva Margret Reynisdottir4. term, Urban Design, Master (Master Programme) Urban Agri_Polis er et visionær by bykoncept der forsøger at genskabe et bæredygtigt forhold mellem det urbane byliv og landbrugs produktion. Urban Agri_Polis er en fusion mellem to verdner; en verden hvor urbanitet møder rural landbrugsproduktion, hvor det grå beton møder den grønne natur og hvor byboerens pulserende liv møder bonemandens hverdag.

Building Houses or Creating Communities? · Sustainable Development Commission In its first thematic review, the SDC scrutinises the Sustainable Communities Plan, launched by the Labour Government in 2003. The report, based on site visits and interviews with local authorities, developers and residents, assesses whether the Government has delivered on its promise to create sustainable communities. Building houses or creating communities? praises the way in which Ministers at the Department for Communities and Local Government have addressed sustainability issues, and identifies some impressive examples of good practice. But overall the SDC finds that few communities built to date have lived up to the promise of being environmentally sensitive, well-connected, thriving and inclusive. Our recommendations to Government include: • Connecting new housing with existing communities, rather than sprawling into undeveloped land. • Raising standards for water and energy efficiency measures, e.g. by installing water meters and high quality insulation in all homes.

What a global food crisis looks like: Oxfam's food prices map Food prices have hovered near an all-time peak since late 2010 sending tens of millions of people into poverty. Oxfam's interactive map shows how poor communities across the world are being hurt by high and volatile food prices. This ‘food price pressure points map’ provides a global snapshot of the impacts of the global food price crisis. Use this code to embed the map on your website: What causes food price spikes? Failed crops – often caused by our changing climate – hit food prices hard. Short-sighted biofuels strategies play a part too – taking food off of people's plates and putting it into car tanks. But despite all these complex causes, the effects on poor people are painfully simple. Whole communities face an uncertain future, because all anyone can think about is where their next meal will come from. It's time to grow out of food price spikes. The way to GROW But what's also needed is more effective global handling of food price crises when they do happen. Related links

Paris : une ferme urbaine dans un parking souterrain Après les potagers perchés et les jardins partagés, c’est une nouvelle forme d’agriculture qui fait son apparition dans la capitale. Au niveau -2 d’un parking souterrain du 18ème arrondissement de Paris, les box sont toujours là sauf qu’à la place des voitures, des champignons, endives et micro-pousses prolifèrent paisiblement sur des rangées d’étalages. Ce parking délaissé de 3 600 m2, était devenu au fil des années un lieu squatté par toutes sortes d’activités plus ou moins légales. Le bailleur social, lassé de voir ses parkings déserts a décidé de valoriser une partie de ce lieu autrement en y accueillant « La Caverne ».

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