AgriGo4Cities Urban agriculture for changing cities: governance models for better institutional capacities and social inclusion

The Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students (BUGS) Program works with children from under-served Baltimore City communities throughout the year with an after-school program as well as a summer program. The program's primary goal is to...

In  Ljubljana the cooperation between tenants and owner of gardens, through which older people with low incomes have the chance to rent them, is giving birth to a successfull practice in the field of urban agriculture. More precisely, food...

WHAT IS UA? As suggested by RUAF Foundation , Urban Agriculture can be defined as the growing of plants and the raising of animals within and around cities. As such, Urban Agriculture is integrated into the urban economic and ecological...

We are happy to share the success of our most recent Partners Meeting held in Munich, Germany. Between November 21st and November 24th, 2017, the partners in AgriGo4Cities met in the Bavarian capital for a conference hosted by Ifuplan, one of...

Baltimore is a city rich in arts and culture. Since it used to be second largest port in the country, people from around the world have arrived in Baltimore to plant new roots and follow their dreams. Baltimore ranks 4th among US cities in terms...

Mr. Estrada grows so many peppers, eggplants and squash that he sends the extras to his relatives in Puerto Rico. His bounty sprouts from the unlikeliest of settings: a patch of green wedged among the public housing projects of the South...

Just south of The Hague, in the Westland region of the Netherlands, acresupon acres of greenhouses are spread across the landscape. They’ve been built by Dutch farmers as part of a 20-year movement by the country to pursue sustainable agriculture...

The 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region was held at Congress Centre in Budapest. The yearly gathering took place on 18 and 19 October with the joint organisation of Hungary (Presidency of the EUSDR in 2017), the European...

Nearly every country in the world is represented in the 18-acre green space nestled between the United Nations Secretariat Building and the East River in New York. Former UN worker Arif Khan first hatched the idea for a secret garden when he...

According to the United Nations, "The urban population of the world has grown from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014." This could mean that sixty-six percent of us are likely to live in urban environments by 2050. As pointed out by...

The inspiring story of Duron Chavis, indoor urban farm director at Virginia State University, who's helping citizens of Richmond, Virginia, have access to locally-grown produce year round. When he started looking to expand his involvement...

We took part at 7th Meeting of the EUSDR PA 10 Danube Local Actors Platform (D-LAP) which was held at Andrassy University in Budapest on 18 October 2017. The central role of actors from local, regional and urban administrations, social...

The Danube Participation Day gathers representatives from civil society organisations, local, regional and national public authorities, university and research from the 14 partner countries of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR),...

Almost 90 participants from different EU member states arrived to Brussels to take part in an event during this year's European Week of Regions and Cities. The workshop took place at the conference centre Borschette. It was focused on horizontal...

We are glad to let you know that on September 21st 2017, we had the pleasure to take part in the event "ATTRACTIVE DANUBE: Improving Capacities for Enhancing Territorial Attractiveness of the Danube Region", which took place in Prague in the...

             The first results of the project AgriGo4Cities are starting to come out!            The project employs participatory urban and peri-urban agriculture as a way of improving the capacity of the institutions.   Through its...

         Greenhouse in the sky: inside Europe's biggest urban farm          In a Hague building, a modern experiment gave birth to the largest urban farms in Europe. With this we are entering a new age of urban agriculture        ...

          Could a further insight into urban planning, along with a slightly different view upon the immigration issue, actually improve our lives?           For two young people from USA, Kansas- Brooke Salvaggio and Daniel Heryer- this...

Conference in Linz, Austria – further steps in implementing the program The meeting in Linz, Austria was held in May 2017 and it was mainly aimed at discussing previous practices, as well as certain challenges that may be encountered when...

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