Resources

International Development Research Centre - http://www.idrc.ca/cfp/index_e.html The Centre, based in Ottawa, Canada, has been a leading catalyst for the development of research into best practices in urban agriculture, especially in the developing world. Its Cities Feeding Cities web site has many authoritative information and links.

The Rural Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry http://www.ruaf.org . The web site of the Centre, which is based in Holland, has many good articles on urban agriculture, and also hosts the on-line version of Urban Agriculture Magazine http://www.ruaf.org/newslgen_fr.html , which is published in Arabic, Chinese English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

City Farmer http://www.cityfarmer.org The urban agriculture notes of the website of City Farmer – an organization based in Vancouver, Canada, keeps tabs on interesting developments world-wide.

the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The FAO’s discussion of the pros and cons of urban farming http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/COAG/COAG15/X0076e.htm is a fairly thorough, if dull, overview of the major issues.

Foodshare. http://www.Foodshare.ca . A leading advocate of urban farming in Toronto, Canada.

Right Livelihood Award. http://www.rightlivelihood.se/recip.htm . The website for the “alternative Nobel Price, which was awarded to Cuba’s Grupo de Agricultura Organica in 1999.

The Institute for Food and Development Policy, http://www.foodfirst.org Also known as Food First, this non-profit organization that focuses on hunger and poverty issues around the world. Its web site has many articles on organic and city farming in Cuba.

Cuba

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/time/timetbl1.html - a useful timeline of key events in Cuba’s history.

Media Coverage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4335678,00.html January 16, 2002 article in The Guardian, a leading British daily newspaper.

http://havanajournal.com/culture/P664/ - an article from the Christian Science Monitor on the controversy caused by Cuban experts introducing urban farming to Venezuela.