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 Welcome to the Regional Website of Urban Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This website was created and is constantly updated and maintained by the Environ ment and Sustainable Development Unit of the American University of Beirut (AUB-ESDU).
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Urban agriculture can be defined as the growing of plants and the raising of animals within and around cities.
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Urban agriculture in Amman-Jordan
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Urban agriculture in Sana’a-Yemen
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The involvement of ESDU in Urban Agriculture dates back to 2004 when ESDU was selected following a competitive bidding to host the first regional “Training and Information Sharing on Urban Agriculture in Middle East and North Africa” with funding from the International Development and Research Center of Canada (IDRC).
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Participatory approach for a value chain analysis: meeting with farmers, researchers and cooperatives or organisations (Amman-Jordan)
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As the course was unfolding, ESDU joined the Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) and became the 7th Center of the Foundation in charge of the MENA Coordination in February 2006.
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Support and follow-up by regional and global teams to pilot projects (Amman-Jordan)
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Multi-stakeholder forum to support urban agriculture and develop a city strategic agenda (Amman-Jordan)
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The Regional training course ended in 2007, but meanwhile ESDU had joined RUAF’s “Cities Farming for the Future” (CFF) initiative, which led to the execution of two regional action research projects in Amman – Jordan and Sana’a – Yemen, as well as a set of supporting activities during 2007 and 2008.
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Capacity building to implement pilot
projects (Sana'a-Yemen)
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In January 2009, ESDU took part in RUAF’s “From Seed to Table” FStT project which build on the outcomes of CFF in Amman and Sana’a and proposed to strengthen the value chain of urban produce with special attention to marketing and access to finances for urban producers.
A wealth of information about the above mentioned projects, as well as a significant body of knowledge on Urban Agriculture which has been developed specifically for the MENA region is available on this website.
Happy browsing...
The RUAF-MENA TEAM
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