Home   Three State Governors have converted a portion of their Statehouse lawn to food production at highly visible sites: New York, Louisiana and Maine... "Freelance Farmers", a food gardening service, introduced in San Francisco... The Financial Times endorses climate change management through backyard carbon farming... The "Backyard Chicken" is the new avant garde of the local food movement... Tom Vilsack, new Secretary of Agriculture, endorses Urban Agriculture; establishes The People Garden at USDA Headquarters in downtown DC...
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September - December, 2009 - "Distance Leaning Course: Dimensions of Urban Agriculture - CVFN 411", Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

October 18-25, 2009 - "World Forestry Congress" Forests and Trees for healthy cities;
Improved 'Environment for Living' and 'Improved Livelihoods. Forest Gardens and Urban Forests from rooftop to the rural-urban edge, Buenos Aires, Argentina

November 11-13, 2009 - "The 4th Annual Conference of the GARNET Network of Excellence" (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU), Rome, Italy

2009/2010 proposed, "International Conference on the Global Food Crisis: Promises and Prospects of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture", Nairobi, Kenya
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