Installing an Agricultural Coordination Office in Lima

One of the municipalities working with Urban Harvest in Lima, Peru recently passed an ordinance recognizing the importance of agricultural production for the District and formally incorporated agriculture into its organizational structure.  On March, 22, 2005 the Mayor of the Municipal Sub-District of Santa Maria de Huachipa, Maria Angelica Fonseca, inaugurated an Office of Urban Agriculture Coordination that will be crucial for promoting agricultural production and marketing and to ensure its long-term sustainability within city planning and management. The office will provide a space and focal point for planning among partners, implementation of activities with farmers and for training and knowledge dissemination. It will also facilitate closer ties between the municipality, Urban Harvest and other partners in urban agricultural activities, especially the farmer irrigation committees in the valley. The office will help to “defend the producers and make the agricultural areas profitable”, said Gustavo Flores, the new Coordinator of Urban Agriculture for the Municipality.  

Urban Harvest would like to recognize their investment partners for making all possible.BMZ, CIDA, DFID, IDRC, INIA, World Bank, Comunidad Madrid