Criteria for success What defined success for the participants in these ranking exercises? Once again, having access to key ...

Dr Christian Thierfelder, a principal cropping systems agronomist at CIMMYT, a non-profit agricultural international ...

Urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation, the social inclusion of the urban poor and women, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of ...

Urban agriculture alone could sustain about 20% of a temperate, mid-sized city's population after a global catastrophe, but combining it with near-urban farming could feed the entire city.

Novella Carpenter’s 2009 memoir, Farm City, trumpets the value of raising chickens, pigs and bees—in Oakland. Urban farming is a response to a variety of pressures. Large parts of the ...

But I am happy that I managed to get something from conservation agriculture.” Small grains like millet and sorghum are not new in Zimbabwe. Before British colonisation ... traditional alcoholic and ...