Farming Matters | 31.2 |June 2015
This ‘twin’ issue of Farming Matters and Urban Agriculture Magazine, produced together by ILEIA and the RUAF Foundation, looks at some existing experiences with strengthened rural–urban linkages and what they teach us about improving food systems for both consumers and agroecological farmers.
This issue shows how agroecology is a consistent thread in building stronger connections between the rural and the urban. We see alternative marketing arrangements and the strength of rural identities in urban contexts for solidarity between farmers and urbanites.
FEATURES
South Africa
Japan
Latin America
France
Argentina
Zimbabwe
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial – Building sustainable food systems beyond the rural–urban divide by Madeleine Florin
Opinion: The WTO must allow support to national food systems by Biraj Patnaik
Community supported agriculture thriving in China by Judith Hitchman
Egyptian youth challenge the city–country divide by Tarek Soliman
Opinion: Finding food security in the rural-urban continuum by Pablo Tittonell
Participatory certification in Brazil supports local food systems by Maria Alice F. C. Mendonça
Producers and consumers build new food practices by Greet Goverde-Lips
Perspectives: Creating city region food systems by Emily Mattheisen