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News
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2007
Publications:
Urban
Harvest Working Paper no. 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.
Download the pdf
version. Resumen en Español.
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.
Download the pdf
version. (in
Spanish)
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.
Download the print
version (pdf)
of this working paper (in Spanish).(7mb)
Annotated
Bibliography Series 3 - Ngyuyen
Thi Tinh, Maarten Warnaars, Ta Thi Bich Duyen
and Tran Thi Bich Ngoc. 2007. An
Annotated Bibliography of Urban and Peri-Urban
Agriculture in Vietnam With Emphasis on Hanoi. Annotated
Bibliography Series 3. International
Potato Center, Lima, Peru.
Download
the pdf
version.
2006
Eco-Health Project
Urban
Agriculture Documentary
Mayors Workshop III
in Lima
Policy
Management of Urban Agriculture in Metropolitan Lima
Model
reservoir to improve crop production
Geography Information System (GIS) and local farmers
Municipality
of Lurigancho - Chosica opens more doors of dialogue
Third Acropolis
Awardee
2005
Pilot reservoir gains recognition
Clean Water, Clean
Vegetables
Another Urban Agriculture Office
in the City
Raising Healthy Pigs
Empowering
Urban Agriculturalists
An Agricultural
Coordination Office in the City March 22, 2005
Inauguration of the Urban Harvest
Office in Huachipa, Lima
March 22, 2005
Urban
Harvest Annual Planning Workshop for the
"Farmers in the City " project February 4
& 5, 2005
Activities
in Lima
Integration
of urban agriculture in the sustainable development
of municipalities'
Fundraising
& Marketing for Action-research on Urban
Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Participatory
Consultative Workshop on Urban Agriculture and
Livelihoods
Some
Partner Activities in UPA in the region
Alleviate urban poverty,
promote a participatory urban governance, and to
improve urban environmental management
Fundraising & Marketing for Action-research on Urban Agriculture
in Latin America and the Caribbean
IPES,
concentrating on the urban environmental management, and the development
of the local (urban) economy
Combining
composted waste from urban agro-industries with
indigenous microbial bio-fertilizer inoculants
Sustainable natural resource management in
cities
Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML)
is facilitating and sustaining a strategy to
alleviate poverty in the city
Activities
in Lima
Integration of urban
agriculture in the sustainable development of
municipalities'
In
November 2003 Urban Harvest co-organized a workshop
in Lima on ' Integration of urban agriculture in
the sustainable development of municipalities'.
The objective of the workshop was to facilitate the
inclusion of urban agriculture in the political
agendas of municipalities in the Eastern Cone and
South of Lima, by raising the awareness of municipal
authorities about the potential of urban agriculture
to be the motor of local economic and social
development. The workshop aimed to do this by
facilitating the exchange of experiences between
districts in Lima, and other Latin American cities
on how they used urban agriculture successfully as a
strategy to combat hunger, generate employment and
income for people, improve social and gender equity,
and sustainable management of the urban environment.
Participants at the workshop represented a wide
range of stakeholders including city officials,
representatives of 9 municipalities in Lima,
international and regional development
organizations, and research institutes. Interesting
presentations were made by city officials from
Havana (Cuba), Cuenca (Ecuador), the mayors of
the Lurin and Villa Maria de Triunfo municipalities
in Lima, and coordinators of UMP-LAC, Red Aguila,
and Urban Harvest to show the potential of UPA to
contribute to sustainable cities.
An
important contributions of this workshop was that
the presentations made a strong impression on the
various municipal authorities present who learned to
see UPA activities in a different, more positive
light, and especially appreciate its potential
society-strengthening function. They learned from
the presentation on Havana city for example, that UA
had generated employment for many poor urban
dwellers, especially poor women. The Cuenca city
presentation impressed participants about the
capacity of UPA projects to involve marginalized
sections of society such as the elderly, and
handicapped people. Another important result was
that the facilitative and support function of NGO's
and research institutes was made transparent to the
municipal authorities which gave them some more
confidence and motivation to promote UA in their
municipalities. Finally, the will of stakeholders to
institutionalize UPA in their local political
agendas became clear at this meeting, and was
formalized through the drawing up of a Declaration
on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture, which is
currently being signed by mayors of 8 municipalities
in Lima.
To
read a detailed
report in Spanish
on the proceedings of this workshop, please click
here. To read the Lima
Declaration on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture signed by the municipalities of Cono
Sur and Cono Este in Lima, please click here.
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Fundraising
& Marketing for Action-research on Urban
Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Urban Harvest participated for the first time in the annual
meeting of the Regional
Network for Urban Agriculture in Latin America and
the Caribbean (AGUILA), and contributed to a
brainstorming session in early 2003 to find
innovative ways by which this network could become
self-supporting and raise income for its own
activities when their source of external funding
comes to an end during the course of the year.
Continuing to build on the theme of innovative
self-financing by UPA initiatives in the region
AGUILA held a training course on the theme: “Fundraising & Marketing for
Action-research on Urban Agriculture in Latin
America and the Caribbean” , in November 2003.
To read
more about this workshop please click on the link
above.
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Participatory
Consultative Workshop on Urban Agriculture and
Livelihoods
In May 2003 Urban Harvest organized a Participatory
Consultative Workshop on Urban Agriculture and
Livelihoods held in the International
Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru. This workshop was
one of the several activities in Lima to prepare for
the project “Confronting urban poverty through
agriculture: the case of the eastern cone of Lima,
Peru”.
19 urban farmers (with small and medium enterprises)
from the eastern cone of Lima participated in this
workshop together with CIP-resource persons from a
variety of disciplines such as agricultural economy,
plant breeding, pathology and agronomy, GIS, and
social anthropology. The workshop was intended to
bring scientists and researchers together with urban
farmers in order to facilitate understanding
of the problems faced by urban farmers in using
agriculture as part of their complex livelihood
strategies, and to jointly discuss/brainstorm about
possible solutions to these problems. In this way
the workshop was intended to contribute to the
planning of a joint agenda to alleviate urban
poverty through agriculture.
To read a short report on this in English please
click here.
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Some
Partner Activities in UPA in the region
The Urban Management
Program of the UN-Habitat in Latin America - PGU-ALC
strategically aims to alleviate urban poverty,
promote a participatory urban governance, and to
improve urban environmental management.
Cross-cutting these aims is their focus to promote
gender equity and local management of resources.
Within the aim of sustainable environmental planning
and management of cities they focus on three areas:
management of contaminated urban rivers, solid-waste
management, and urban agriculture and food security.
To read more about these and other areas of
activity of the PGU-ALC please visit their Spanish
website at http://www.pgualc.org/actividades_servicios/grupos00.html
or write a mail to pgu@pgu-ecu.org
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AGUILA,
the Regional Network for Urban Agriculture in Latin
America and the Caribbean has been supported by IDRC
and others. This active network has an extensive
membership of individual farmers, NGOs, and
researchers. AGUILA links and capacity building of
individual farmers, NGO's, and research institutions
(involved in urban agriculture) in the region by
providing a means to exchange experiences through
internet fora, and by organizing workshops and
seminars. In November 2003 AGUILA will be
organizing a training course on “Fundraising & Marketing for Action-research on Urban Agriculture
in Latin America and the Caribbean”
To read more about AGUILA, in Spanish, please
click on the address below.
http://www.ipes.org/aguila
Note: The Spanish website also gives information on various
partner projects in urban agriculture in the LAC
region. The Spanish version of the RUAF Urban
Agriculture magazine can also be downloaded
from here, as well as other Spanish publications on
UA.
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IPES,
Institute for the Development of Social Economy in
Lima, Peru, is a NGO working in two main areas:
urban environmental management, and the development
of the local (urban) economy. IPES is also the Latin
American coordinator for the UWEP or Urban Waste
Expertise Program, as well as the host for AGUILA
For more information on
IPES visit their Spanish website at http://www.ipes.org/
, and/or write an email to ipes@ipes.org.pe
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COMMINANDES
is an EU-funded program on sustainable potato
production in Andean urban and peri-urban areas (in
Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia) by combining
bio-composting and microbial inoculants. Potato
cultivation while being common in these areas,
does not have a high rate of return chiefly due to
various abiotic and biotic soil constraints, and the
recourse to pesticides and fertilizers is frequently
too expensive. The general objective of the proposal
is to develop and investigate the combination of
composted waste from urban agro-industries with
indigenous microbial bio-fertilizer inoculants in
order to:
- add
value to urban agro-industry waste
- to
reduce chemical-dependence of small-scale
agriculturists and,
- to
stimulate local collective capacities (farmers
associations and NGO's) to develop micro-scale
composting systems and management of microbial
inoculants.
To
read more about this project please click here
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Ecociudad
is a Peruvian NGO that works for sustainable
development and gender equity through several
programs in the urban context. These programs cover
sustainable natural resource management in cities,
building local capacity to offer eco-tourism, urban
environmental management, and urban risk-management.
To read more about
these programs and the projects that are currently
being implemented in them please access the Ecociudad
website
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Construyamos
Futuro : To deal
effectively with the rising poverty and unemployment
in Lima, the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML)
is facilitating and sustaining a strategy to
alleviate poverty in the city with political,
technical and social cooperation from international
and local partners. This strategy - Construyamos
Futuro - has six fundamental components:
- systematizing and developing an information base
on poverty in Lima and means of alleviating it
- an integrated and participatory strategy to
alleviate poverty through institutional reform and
public and private investment
- a medium- and long-term development plan for Lima
- a participatory process of monitoring and
evaluation the strategy to check results and impacts
- institutional support and strengthening through a
series of municipal reforms that can be applied
within the MML
- diffusion and communication of the poverty
alleviation strategy
This initiative has links with the WorldBank
Poverty Net as well as the Economic
Commission for Latin America - CEPAL
Go to our Tools
and Methods section to view a study on poverty
in Lima.
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