BENVGES4: Urban Agriculture: Dr Robert Anthony Biel Academic Year 2011/12 Archived
48 items
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Term 1 27 items
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Session 1 4 itemsOverview of urban agriculture and its evolution over the last century in both developed and developing countries. Introduction to the course.
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Urban agriculture - , 2009
Article Essential Digitised reading
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Relearning urban agriculture -
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Cities farming for the future -
Chapter Essential Weblink
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Session 2 2 itemsPractical introduction to the allotment movement and UA farming systems
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Assessing benefits from allotments as a component of urban agriculture in England - , ,
Chapter Digitised reading
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Chapter Digitised reading
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Session 3 1 itemThe Rosario Experience. From social struggle to municipal policy
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Urban Agriculture Programme of the city of Rosario - 2006
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Session 4 2 items
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The inconvenient truth about food: neither secure or resilient c.2008
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The organic chemistry of food production -
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Session 5 2 items
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Article Essential Weblink
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Governance and the Commons in a Multi-Level World - 2008
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Session 6 3 items
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Chapter one - 1943
Chapter Available at British Library and Natural History Museum
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The ecology of West African farming systems -
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Capitalist development in historical context -
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Session 7 5 items
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Chapter Essential Digitised Reading - UCL/DPU Pre-print copy
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Urban Agriculture: Land Management and Physical Planning - March 2003
Article Essential Web resource
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Optimization of Use of Vacant Land for Urban Agriculture in the Municipality of Rosario, Argentina - 2003
Article Essential Web resource Case Study developed for the E-Conference: Optimizing Agricultural Land Use in the City Area. ETC-RUAF and UMP-LAC.
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Session 8 5 items
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The power of peasants: Reflections on the meanings of La Vía Campesina - 2008-4
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From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements :: Monthly Review - 2009
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Towards Food Sovereignty, Reclaiming autonomous food systems - 2009
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Food Sovereignty in Latin America: confronting the new crisis -
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Session 9 3 items
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SPIN-Farming: advancing urban agriculture from pipe dream to populist movement - 2007
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The art of not digging, The basics -
Chapter Digitised Reading
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The principles of permaculture -
Chapter Essential Digitised Reading - Held in DPU Library
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BENVGES4 TERM 2 MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF URBAN AGRICULTURE 21 items
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Session 10: The Role of Popular Knowledge Systems and Technologies in Development in an Urbanizing Context 2 itemsGuest Lecturer: Dr. Zeremariam Fre
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Pastoral Development in Eritrea and Eastern Sudan - 1989
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Biodiversity and People's Knowledge -
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Session 11: Common Regimes and Community Land Trusts at a City Level: The Garden City Movement 2 items
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Webpage Web resource
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Champlain Housing Trust Annual Report 2009 - 2009
Webpage Web resource
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Session 12: Urban Agriculture and its interface with architecture and Housing. Right to Food and Right to the City 5 items
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Chapter Digitised reading
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Edible boardrooms & Allotments in the sky - 2008
Webpage Web resource
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Session 13: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in arid zones with a focus on Food Security. The Case of Kassala City in Eastern Sudan 2 itemsGuest Lecturer: Dr. Zeremariam Fre
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Chapters 4 & 5 - 2008
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Session 14: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture within an evolving Global Political Economy, with special reference to Finance 3 items
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Finance and Investment for Urban Agriculture - 2006
Chapter Web resource
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Session 15: Presentation of city profiles by Participants - First Part (Coursework 2) 1 item
The presentations of the city profiles focus on the contribution that urban and peri-urban agriculture is making in the studied city to the right to food and to food sovereignty.
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Session 16: Verticalisation of Production: Urban Agriculture, Food Chains, Localisation and the link with Distribution Systems. Urban Agriculture within the Urban System. 4 itemsGuest Lecturer: Dr. Marielle Dubbeling, Senior Adviser ETC-Urban Agriculture/ RUAF Foundation
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ILAC Brief 21: The Participatory Market Chain Approach: Stimulating Pro-Poor Market Chain Innovation - 2009
Document Web resource
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Avoiding the Local Trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research - , 2006-12-01
Article
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Document Web resource
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Case Study ASPROVE . Association of the PROVE Producers - 2005
Article Web resource
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Session 17: Presentation of city profiles by Participants - Second Part (Coursework 2) 1 item
The presentations of the city profiles focus on the contribution that urban and peri-urban agriculture is making in the studied city to the right to food and to food sovereignty.
[No Set Readings]
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Session 18: Urban Agriculture, Commons Regimes, Urban Metabolisms, Right to Food and Food Sovereignty. 1 item
This session will draw together the conceptual and theoretical threads from the whole module and will introduce a debate between module tutors and guest lecturers
No specific readings, as this session will build and reflect upon the ones that were read all through the module.
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