Farming cities for sustainability Issue 3/2007 features an article about urban farming as a tool to meet social, ecological and nutritional challenges. Growing of plants and raising of animals for food and other uses within and close to urban areas is receiving increasing attention from development organisations as well as national and local authorities in many developing countries. Moreover, there are articles on the relationship between environmental degradation and state failures; the ethical reasons for fighting climate change; invasive species worsening a food crisis in southern Africa; and an introduction to the “tortilla effect”. And much more... open in HTML or PDF >>>