Sentences with phrase «case for urban agriculture»
Not exact matches
My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.
http://afsa.org.au/
The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.
Although public awareness for farming activities in cities is slowly increasing, agriculture is still in many cases not yet included in the urban planning.
Fourteen case studies on the role of women in urban agriculture and urban food security and draft guidelines for gender mainstreaming of urban agriculture projects and policies were discussed.