East Palo Alto celebrates New Farmers' Market [ Collective Roots ] June 1, 2008  Shopping for vegetables is rarely cause for celebration, but East Palo Alto's new farmers market has been so long in coming that it deserved the balloons and 10-piece welcome band it got on Sunday. Read More ...

World food prices set to fall from current record but will remain high, report says [ Savannah Morning News ] May 30, 2008  PARIS - World food prices are set to fall from current peaks in the coming years but will remain 'substantially above' average levels from the past decade, a report said Thursday. The world's poorest nations are most vulnerable - particularly the urban poor in food-importing countries - and will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment, according to a joint ... Read More ...

Backyard gardens likely to flourish as gas, food prices rise [ Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ] May 31, 2008  Seed sellers and agriculture experts expect backyard gardens to flourish as gas and food prices rise. Read More ...

Divided city the crisis of London [ Mmegi ] Jun 1, 2008  The contemporary city, London especially, was supposed to be the model for the workable, cosmopolitan multicultural future. But neo-liberal globalisation and its disastrous consequences are reproducing in the city the growing inequalities of the world, argues the foremost analyst of multiculture. Read More ...

The urban farmer One man's crusade to plough up the inner city [ Independent ] May 31, 2008  Fritz Haeg isn't perhaps the obvious representative of a revolution in global farming. As an architecture and design academic and practitioner, the American has had his work exhibited at Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has taught fine art at several US universities. Yet it is last year's community-collaborative project on an inner-city council estate in south London that ... Read More ...

Use additional FSI for the poor, Pawar tells govt [ Expressindia.com ] Jun 1, 2008  The agriculture land which is close to urban area does not yield much due to urbanisation and farmers should exploit it for other purpose, Deshmukh said. ... Read More ...

Plastic hen coop brings fresh eggs to masses [ Times Online ] May 31, 2008  Chicken chic has taken off. Championed by chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, hen-keeping has, it seems, grown from the preserve of a small rural flock into a booming urban pastime. Read More ...

Margaret Krome Don't sell East High's urban ag land [ The Capital Times ] May 28, 2008  The wind blew leaves in the raspberry patch and blossoms of fruit trees on five acres of urban agriculture, all caught in the act of growing. ... Read More ...

Gov't urged to provide emergency employment as prices go up [ ABS-CBNNEWS.com ] Jun 01, 2008  The Arroyo government should provide emergency employment to help the urban and rural poor cope with higher food and other commodity prices, a local group involved in the global fight against poverty said. Read More ...

CUBA Urban Farming, More Necessary Than Ever [ Inter Press Service  ] May 30, 2008  'Here you have to make soil from scratch, and to begin with I had to bring it from Jagüey Grande,' Nibaldo Ortega, who joined the urban agriculture movement ... Read More ...

Cuba's urban farming program a stunning success [ The Associated Press ] Jun 8, 2008  Urban agriculture is one of them,' said Beat Schmid, coordinator of Cuba programs for the charity Oxfam International. Other countries have experimented ... Read More ...

Zimbabwe Devise Urban Agric Policies, Local Authorities Urged [ AllAfrica.com ] May 16, 2008  THE Urban Agriculture Stakeholders' Forum has urged urban local authorities to devise urban agriculture policies that promote food 'sovereignty' in the face ... Read More ...