Strengthening Urban Farmer Organisations and their Marketing Capacities: From Seed to Table
The RUAF programme “From Seed to Table” (RUAF-FStT, 2009-2010) builds on the results of the RUAF-Cities Farming for the Future Programme (RUAF-CFF, 2005-2008) and is globally implemented in 20 cities which includes 2 cities Magadi (Ramanagar District, Karnataka, India) and Gampaha (Sri Lanka) of South and South East Asia.
Aims
- To promote sustainable urban farming systems
- To enhance the institutional capacities of local support organizations and urban farmer organizations to implement farmer-led “From Seed to Table (FStT)” projects
- To facilitate the processes of multi-stakeholder dialogue, policy making, strategic planning and increased local financing for urban / peri urban agriculture
- To enhance income generation, food security, gender equity, social inclusion and empowerment of urban poor farmers
Expected outcomes and outputs of the FStT programme
Capacity building
- At least 50 persons from farmer organisations, NGOs, training and research institutes and local governments have been trained in the “FStT approach” on urban farming systems
- Between 3 – 5 farmer organisations strengthened – strategic development agenda, improved internal functioning, improved external relations and group savings scheme established
Urban agriculture innovation project
- At least 100 farming households have generated a 10 – 25% increase in income and nutritional security
- Farmer capacities in urban agriculture innovation from a market perspective enhanced
Multi-stakeholder strategic action planning and policy formulation on urban agriculture
- Multi-stakeholder Forum (MSF) on urban agriculture formed during the RUAF-CFF is strengthened
- City Strategic Agenda on urban agriculture formulated, adopted and implemented
- Inclusion of actions into local institutional programmes and municipal policy
Enhancing access to financing
- A study on financing opportunities and needs of producers implemented
- Ways to improve access to credit and financing identified
- At least one financing organisation has started to provide financing to urban farmers under acceptable conditions
Learning from monitoring
- Local, regional and international exchange and documentation of experiences
Components of the innovation project
