UA Magazine No. 23: Urban Nutrient Management will be published in December 2009.
Please send your contribution before 15 September 2009 to: email hidden; JavaScript is required

Urban food demand, especially for fresh perishable food products, is increasing with population growth. Urban agriculture responds to this demand through intensive and continuous production taking advantage of market proximity. Such intensive production is highly dependent on nutrients and water. Rapidly growing cities face the challenge of providing basic services such as drinking water and sanitation on the one hand, and sustainably managing urban wastes and wastewater on the other. UA Magazine no. 20 focused on water, and the following issue, no. 23, will focus on the equally important aspect of nutrient management.

For more information about the call for contributions and about RUAF, visit the RUAF website (www.ruaf.org).

UA Magazine is published two times a year on the RUAF website and in hardcopy version. This English version is translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese.  The UA Magazine welcomes contributions on new initiatives at individual, neighbourhood, city and national levels. Attention is given to technical, socio-economic, institutional and policy aspects of sustainable urban food production, marketing, processing and distribution systems. Although articles on any related issue are welcome and considered for publication, each UA Magazine focuses on a selected theme.

The latest issue of id21 insights exclusively covers NTFPs. The authors of eight interesting articles discuss whether the sustainable production and commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is a way forward in tropical forested areas for successful conservation and rural development.

id21 insights provides a thematic overview of recent policy-relevant research findings on international development.

The Indigenous Plant Use Forum (IPUF) carries out its 12th conference with the theme “Exploration and commercialization: Opportunities and challenges”.

For more information please check out the website of the event.