Food Security Assessment 2008−09 (USDA, 2009) − The number of poor and food- insecure people in developing countries is increasing more quickly in urban areas than in rural areas.
Downloadable Books, Research Reports, Working Papers and Water Policy Briefs: 53-City Assessment Finds that in Most Cities Wastewater Dumped into Environment Ends up in Urban Agriculture (2008) Recycling Realities: Managing Health Risks to Make Wastewater an Asset (2006) Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Confronting the Livelihood and Environmental Realities (2004) Confronting the Realities of Wastewater Use in Agriculture (2003) Urban Wastewater: A Valuable Resource for Agriculture – A Case Study from Haroonabad, Pakistan (2002) Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-Urban Agriculture in Pakistan: Risks and Opportunities (2002) Wastewater use in Agriculture: Review of Impacts and Methodological Issues in Valuing Impacts (2002) Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture in Vietnam: Water Management, Environment and Human Health Aspects (2001)
Journal papers: Wastewater Reuse (whole issue of Irrigation and Drainage Systems, June 2010) − includes several papers on urban agriculture. A nationwide assessment of wastewater use in Pakistan: an obscure activity or a vitally important one? (Water Policy, 2004)
►Downloadable books from the International Development Research Centre:
Agriculture in Urban Planning: Generating Livelihoods and Food Security (2008) [not yet downloadable] Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development (2006) Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture (2005) Agriculture in the City: A Key to Sustainability in Havana, Cuba (2003) Urban Agriculture in West Africa: Contributing to Food Security and Urban Sanitation (1999) Cities Feeding People: An Examination of Urban Agriculture in East Africa (1994)
Websites Urban Harvest
Health risks in urban agriculture when using wastewater or partially treated wastewater for crop watering (Presentation at World Bank Water Week, Washington DC, 17−19 February 2009)
Closing the Loop between Sanitation and Agriculture in Accra, Ghana: Improving yields in urban agriculture by using urine as a fertilizer and drivers & barriers for scaling-up (MSc dissertation, Wageningen University, 2009)
