Tag: urban poor
Changing Lives, Gaining Respect – Urban Farmers of Nairobi (Video)
This is a 15 minute overview of Nairobi's urban farmers. Mazingira Institute provides training to young urban farmers on efficient use of urban spaces, job creation, organic crops, livestock and health issues. Women and youth farmer hubs have formed a platform and network for community practice advancing food security...
Why We Should Be Urban Farming (Video)
In our recent history, we have removed the growing of food far away from the places where more than half of humanity today lives - the cities (UN statistics from 2014 show that 54 per cent of human population is now in urban areas).
This video (below) makes a strong...
South Africa’s Chamber of Mines Shows-Off Potential of Rooftop Agriculture
South Africa's Chamber of Mines is aiming at creating a vibrant urban agricultural ecosystem by repurposing disused rooftops and making use of hydroponics and aquaponics to produce agricultural produce for Johannesburg's inner city communities.
The initiative was established by the Johannesburg Inner City Partnership.
As a key stakeholder in the JICP,...
Australia’s Karenni Refugees Cultivate Community Through Wollongong Farming Initiative
Developing small farms on unused land in urban areas could help alleviate chronic unemployment for refugees resettled in Australia.
At Mangerton in Wollongong, Karenni refugees are transforming a steep hillside next to the Saint Therese Primary School, into a traditional terraced garden.
According to University of Wollongong geographer Ananth Gopal, community...
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening takes off in Brazil.
The Urban Agriculture Programme, which now provides the women...
Africa’s Urban Farmers
A nurse, Wangari counts on income from farming to raise money to buy more land - for more farming.
With prices for basic foodstuffs at their highest levels in decades, many urbanites feel well rewarded by farming.
Across Africa, political leaders, long dismissive of rural concerns, have woken up to the...
Urban Farming Is Booming, But What Does It Really Yield?
Midway through spring, the nearly bare planting beds of Carolyn Leadley’s Rising Pheasant Farms, in the Poletown neighborhood of Detroit, barely foreshadow the cornucopian abundance to come. It will be many months before Leadley is selling produce from this one-fifth-acre (one-tenth-hectare) plot. But the affable young farmer has hardly...