Recent guests and visitors include: Edgar Arceneaux, Nao Bustamante, Mel Chin, Sara Daleiden, Fallen Fruit,
Future Farmers, Grupo Etcetera, Micol Hebron, Pablo Helguera, Dolores Huerta, Gronk, Fritz Haeg, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Olga Koumoundoros, L.A.
Urban Rangers, Kori Newkirk, S.A. Bachman, Martha Rosler, Bonnie Sherk, Sally Tallant, Mierle Ukeles, and Stephen Wright.
It is the smallholder
farmers in Africa and South Asia and the
urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the people who will have less to eat in the near
future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.
Today, that little book is out in print and called The Prince's Speech: On the
Future of Food, with a foreword by poet and
farmer Wendell Berry, and an afterword co-written by
urban farmer / MacArthur genius Will Allen and longtime food journalist Eric Schlosser.
This paper reviews the experiences gained and lessons learned in action oriented studies on the credit and financing opportunities and constraints for
urban farmers and related SME's in the 17 cities participating in the RUAF Cities Farming for the
Future programme.