Participatory Community Development
how could you write this paragraph in your own words?
Urban agriculture (UA) has been promoted over the last couple of years by a large number of local and national governments, urban actors and international agencies, such as UN-HABITAT’s Urban Management Programme, FAO, International Development Research Centre (IDRC- Canada), CGIAR-Urban Harvest and the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) as a strategy to promote food security and poverty reduction, sustainable resource use and environmental management, social integration and local participatory governance.
Urban agriculture takes place in a multi-sectoral environment, touches on a large number of urban management areas (eg. land use planning, environmental and waste management, economic development, public health, social and community development), and involves a large diversity of systems and related actors (input provision, vegetable production, aquaculture, livestock production, processing and marketing).
Is the second paragraph yours? Or are they all part of the extract that you have been tasked with to write in your own words?
Unfortunately it would be cheating if anybody did this for you (hopefully you weren’t asking us to do that), but the key point is to summarize – in order to test your understanding. Emphasize the bits that you feel are most important.
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