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Urban Harvest Working Paper 4 Warnaars, Maarten and Willy Pradel. 2007. A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Urban and Rural Farmer Field School Participants in Peru. Urban Harvest Working Paper Series, no.4. International Potato Center, Lima, Peru.

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Urban Harvest Working Paper no. 3 (CD-rom)

Raymundo, R., C. Bussink y G. Prain, 2007. La Dinámica de la Agricultura en Lima 1972-200. UNa Recopilacion y Analisis de Estadisticas Provinciales y Regionales. Urban Harvest Working paper Series, no. 3. Centro Internacional de la Papa. Lima, Peru.

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Urban Harvest Working Paper no. 2 

Burgos, G. y Carrasco, M. June 2004. Características de la alimentación e ingesta de nutrientes de los niños entre 6 a 24 meses de una comunidad urbano marginal de Lima (Caso Nievería). Urban Harvest Working paper Series, no. 2. Centro Internacional de la Papa. Lima, Peru

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Urban Harvest Working Paper no. 1

King’ori, Peter. March 2004. Assessment of urban and peri-urban agriculture research in the CGIAR Centres in Sub-Saharan Africa.Urban Harvest Working paper Series, no. 1. Centro Internacional de la Papa. Lima, Peru.

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CIAT Africa-Urban Harvest Working Document
G. Atukunda, F. Baseke, S. David, J. Jagwe, M. Kalyebara, M. Kaweesa, R. Miiro , P. Musoke, G. Nabulo, A. Namagembe, C. Niringiye, R. Nyapendi, B. Odongo, C. Owori, M.Azuba-Ssemwanga and S. Tumwegamire, 2003. Farming in the city: Participatory appraisal of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Kampala, Uganda. CIAT Africa Occasional Publications Series, No. 42. CIAT, Kampala, Uganda.

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Publications 

Impacts of urban agriculture. Highlights of Urban Harvest research and development, 2003-2006.Urban Harvest (Book-2007)

Creed-Kanashiro, H., N. Espinola y G. Prain. 2007.  Fortaleciendo la nutrición infantil en Perú: Desarrollo de una papilla a base de camote. CIP: Lima, Peru.

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DVD:  Documentary on urban agriculture in Lima "Agricultores en la Ciudad". For a free copy please contact:  urbanharvest@ciar.org  (DVD is in Spanish)

Prain, G. 2006. Participatory Technology Development for Sustainable Intensification of Urban Agriculture. In: Veenhuizen, R. van (ed). Cities farming for the future, urban agriculture for green and productive cities. Leusden (Netherlands). ETC- Urban Agriculture. ISBN 1-930261-14-4. pp.299-303.http://www.ruaf.org/node/975

 National Institution in Agricultural Investigation and Extension Services (INEA) 2005. Manejo de Cuyes Boletin Tecnico, INEA, Lima, Peru. Downlaod the pdf version. (in Spanish)

Urban Harvest, 2005. Feeding Cities in Anglophone Africa with Urban Agriculture: 'Concepts, tools and case studies for practitioners, planners and policy makers'. Cd-rom CIP-Urban Harvest, Lima, Peru. 

Online course. http://etraining.cip.cgiar.org/  or email us to receive a copy. 

Peters, D., Ngai, DO Duc 2004. AgroProcessing Waste Assessment and Management in Peri-Urban Hanoi, Vietnam. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture vol.25 no.1. Food Products Press. New York, U.S.A. 

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Prain, G., Zeeuw de, H. 2004. Women Feeding Cities Proceedings of the Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Food Production and Food Security Workshop.  Jointly organized by ETC-RUAF and CGIAR-Urban Harvest in  collaboration with IWMI-Ghana. 

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Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: A Sourcebook is a new CIP-UPWARD publication.  This sourcebook seeks to promote better understanding of PR&D’s complementary role to more conventional research approaches, and how to create effective linkages with mainstream science to facilitate local innovation processes.  Click here to view a short description of the publication. To view the table of contents click here.To receive a copy please contact Dindo M. Campilan at: d.campilan@cgiar.org

Prain, G. PhD, B. Arce PhD,  L. Maldonado. 2004. Gender and urban Agriculture in Carapongo, Lima, Peru This is the full document presented at the' Women Feeding Cities' Workshop September, 2005 in Accra, Ghana.  Download the paper in pdf version.To view all the papers presented at the workshop please go to http://www.ruaf.org/ruafpublications.html

Nazarea, V.P., M.C. Piniero and R.P. Mula. 2003 Urban Gardens: Persistence and Change is a new UPWARD-Urban Harvest publication. It documents the findings of a research project examining the socio-cultural and biophysical dimensions of urban homegardens in Baguio City, northern Philippines.

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Guzman, Constancio C. de 2003. Sampaguita Livelihoods of Peri-urban Metro Manila, Philippines: Key Actors, Activities, Benefits and Constraints. CIP-UPWARD, Manila, Philippines. 

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Guzman, Constancio C. de, Bajet, Cristina M. and Navarro, Mariafe P. 2003. Assessing Pest Management Issues in the Sampaguita Flower Production and Garland-making Livelihood System in Peri-urban Metro Manila. CIP-UPWARD, Manila, Philippines

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