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Incentives and enabling measures encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agricultural practices. They include im-proving farmers’ education and technical training, imple-menting strategies for reducing the costs of inputs, en-acting organic farming legislation that protects product integrity, and providing financial incentives for adoption of sustainable practices. Market demand for sustainable products can...

The time is ripe to strengthen engagement on urban food issues. This report provides a broad overview of this diverse and rapidly evolving area of work. It proposes the TRANSFORM conceptual framework and city typology as a guiding approach and suggests a set of indicative interventions and delivery instruments to...

Urbanisation in low and middle-income nations presents both opportunities and immense challenges. As urban centres grow rapidly, inadequate housing and the lack of basic infrastructure and services affect a large and growing proportion of their population. There is also a growing body of evidence on urban poverty and its links...

This issue of the UA Magazine is a joint effort of the RUAF Foundation and the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience (CAWR). It aims to articulate and document the emerging field of urban agroecology. Definitions differ and tend to reflect the various ways the term agroecology is understood in...

The informal sector remains an important component of the South African food system, despite the rapid transformation and consolidation of the formal food sector since the end of apartheid. (Greenberg 2010, Ramabulana 2011, Vink and van Rooyen 2009). The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (Act 47 of 1996) and the...