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Harvest is a CGIAR research initiative on urban and peri-urban agriculture.
It was launched in late 1999 to coordinate the collective
knowledge and technologies of CGIAR international agricultural
centres relating to urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA).
Urban
and peri-urban agriculture has been a vital livelihood option
for many poor residents in and around cities in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. However, it has been largely unrecognised
and discriminated against in urban planning and policies.
Urban Harvest was an integrated agricultural research response
to the challenges of increasing food insecurity, impoverishment,
environmental deterioration, and unemployment facing the cities
of the developing world.
Urban
Harvest portrays urban and peri-urban agriculture as a productive,
essential component of sustainable cities. It works through
exploratory and action-based research conducted in partnership
with local governments and regional and international research
organizations in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-east
Asia, and Latin America. The program's research framework
is founded on four "pillars":
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stakeholder and policy dialogue
- sustainable
urban livelihoods
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recognition and use of un(der)utilized urban resources
- integrated
human-ecosystem health approach.
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