Urban Harvest has published an interactive traning CD-Rom entitled: Feeding Cities in Anglophone Africa with urban agriculture: Concepts, tools and case studies for practitioners, planners and policy makers based on the three-week regional training course for Anglophone Africa on Urban Agriculture from 8 - 26 March, 2004. The seven modules describe the history, concepts and dynamics of urban agriculture (UA), health impacts of UA, crop production systems, livestock production and marketing systems, solid waste management, wastewater re-use, and integration of UA in urban planning.  The CD-Rom is structured from a theoretical and practical perspective. The former is designed according to the seven modules pertaining to urban agriculture, whilst the latter takes a different approach by introducing actor scenarios. Therefore, the user can associate urban agriculture to a particular person involved in urban agriculture, whether it is a policy maker or an urban producer or NGO representative working in the area. The CD-Rom has a ‘tools’ component that provides information on analytical tools and schemes on key issues on urban agriculture such as gender issues, conducting research and health risks. 
Moreover the CD-rom content is available online (http://etraining.cip.cgiar.org/  ) as an extra long distance training component. This will enable interested people, the world over, to access the material and interact with other ‘students’ and ‘teachers’ in order to assist in the flow of information and create discussions groups.   To obtain a hard copy please contact Urban Harvest at: urbanharvet@cgiar.org

*This work could not have been done without the collaboration from a variety of organizations and institutions, which included IDRC’s “Cities Feeding People" program, The Urban Management Program of UN-Habitat, the Municipal Development Partnership of Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Kenya, the Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Food Security, and the International Water Management Institute prepared the course.