San Jose's beloved Rose Garden back in bloom [ San Jose Mercury News ] Dec 3, 2008  Adds Hopper: 'The garden had hit rock bottom. Something had to be done to save it.' Together, Reilly and Hopper ignited a blaze of community activism ... Read More ...

Agriculture, forestry holds 500,000 jobs statewide [ The News Virginian ] Dec 01, 2008  HOT SPRINGS — Agriculture and forestry has a $79 billion impact on Virginia's economy, according to a Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service study presented Monday during the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention at The Homestead. Read More ...

Zimbabwe's Hard-Pressed City Dwellers Cultivate Urban Agriculture [ Voice of America ] Nov 25, 2008  Despite bylaws restricting urban agriculture because of its perceived side-effects, more and more Gweru residents, like others in urban areas across the ... Read More ...

RBI eases lending norms for urban co-op banks [ Business Standard India ] Dec 02, 2008  The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed lending norms for tier-II urban co-operative banks , making it easier for them to lend to commercial real estate and non-banking finance firms . Read More ...

Community supported agriculture offers tasty, nutritious food and boosts economy [ Asheville Citizen-Times ] Dec 01, 2008  ASHEVILLE - Every week this past summer, employees at Mountain BizWorks would receive an e-mail informing them it was time to pick up their fresh fruits and vegetables. Read More ...

Growing farmers in the inner cities [ CNN Money ] Dec 03, 2008  The son of a South Carolina sharecropper, Will Allen likes to say he was getting back to his roots in 1993 when he purchased the last remaining farmland within Milwaukee's city limits. Read More ...

South Africa Communities Urged to Grow Food to Deal With High Food Prices [ AllAfrica.com ] Dec 3, 2008  Pretoria — The Department of Agriculture is advocating communities to use fallow land to grow food to help deal with the issue of high food prices in the country. Read More ...

Fitchburg action preserves community garden [ The Capital Times ] Dec 03, 2008  After two hours of public comment Tuesday night, Fitchburg's Plan Commission unanimously approved the Southdale neighborhood plan, which includes language to preserve Drumlin Community Garden, a volunteer-run, not-for-profit, urban garden on roughly 1.5 acres divided into 30 plots. The garden sits on the south portion of property owned by the Alexander Co., which is in the process of ... Read More ...

Two groups, two prices of maize flour [ Standard ] Dec 1, 2008  The millers stuck to Sh65, and it appeared they had their say and way as urban stores will sell at Sh72, Sh65 plus 10 per cent profit of Sh6.50. ... Read More ...

Indian Land Tenure Foundation awards grants and contracts [ News from Indian Country ] Dec 4, 2008  The Indian Land Tenure Foundation has awarded $40094 to the South Dakota Department of Education, Office of Indian Education, to support the ... Read More ...

The agriculture-rural paradox [ Hindu Business Line ] Nov 11, 2008  According to the Chief Statistician of India, Dr Pronab Sen, 'rural' has only a residual definition; any area that is not urban is termed rural. ... Read More ...

Thriving country hubs show life beyond urban sprawl [ The Australian ] Dec 3, 2008  It's a region where every locale has massive grain silos and storage warehouses to support local agriculture. But what I like about it is the economic ... Read More ...

Going hungry in the 21st century [ Sydney Morning Herald ] Dec 5, 2008  The World Bank's 2008 Agriculture For Development report predicts global cereal production must increase by 50 per cent and meat production by 85 per cent ... Read More ...

Urban tree canopy plans come with multiple benefits [ The Tennessean ] Dec 5, 2008  In Tennessee, the Department of Agriculture is providing incentives to local governments to purchase and plant more urban trees on public land through its ... Read More ...

Practise safe urban farming methods [ The Sunday Mail ] Nov 29, 2008  Urban farmers are smiling as well. Let's give thanks and praise to the ancestors and the Almighty for the rains. We need food. However, urban agriculture ... Read More ...

Soil contamination feared at garden site [ Globe and Mail ] Dec 4, 2008  Urban agriculture is widely popular in Vancouver, and hundreds of people are signed up on waiting lists to plant at the city's various community garden ... Read More ...

Sir Bob Kerslake makes maiden speech as HCA chief at UrbanBuzz ... [ 24dash ] Dec 4, 2008  He also commented upon the UrbanBuzz project Abundance, an urban agriculture project based in Brixton, 'Boris is particularly keen on urban agriculture'. ... Read More ...

Masvingo City Lifts Ban On Urban Agriculture [ radiovop.com ] Dec 5, 2008  Masvingo City Council Mayor Alderman Chakabuda was on record as saying that the local authority had banned urban agriculture, after it turned down an ... Read More ...