Call for articles: innovations in urban and periurban agriculture

Posted by on December 02, 2013

Call for articles on innovations in urban and periurban agriculture

Publishing date: July 2014

Deadline for contributions: 30 April 2014

This Urban Agriculture Magazine will highlight innovations in urban agriculture, from small-scale and low-tech innovations (such as the use of solar power for irrigating market gardens) to larger-scale and higher tech innovations such as vertical farming. The Magazine will also report on the 2014 Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture. Hosted by the city of Abu Dhabi, the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture will present the world’s largest collection of sustainable agriculture inventions, and pool together the highest level of expertise, investors and suppliers to show the world how new ideas can be used to substantially increase food production and contribute to solving the world’s ever-increasing food needs. Visit http://www.InnovationsInAgriculture.com for further information and registration.

Already, we invite you to continue with your innovations and suggestions (for interesting cases or contacts). No need to wait till next April to inform us about your ideas and suggestions:

e-mail them right away, to info@ruaf.org.

Contributions: Articles for UA-Magazine should consist of maximum 2000 words, preferably accompanied by an abstract, a maximum of 5 references, figures and digital images or photographs of good quality (more than 300 dpi or in jpg format more than 1 Mb preferably). The articles should be written in a manner that is readily understood by a wide variety of stakeholders all over the world. We also invite you to submit information on recent publications, journals, videos, photographs, cartoons, letters, technology descriptions and assessments, workshops, training courses, conferences, networks, web-links, etc., especially those relating to this theme.