GIZ projects to promote urban agriculture On Wednesday morning, representatives from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH shared their experience on rural development projects in Africa. When we talk about urban gardening, community supported agriculture (CSA) or home gardens have since ever been part of urban settlements. There are new forms of urban farming we might have heard of, such as roof top farming and animal husbandry in the top floor of skyscrapers in the New York City, or sky farming in countries with limited resources, like mega cities in Asia or South Afirca. Urban farming can bring multiple impacts to us, such as food security when the community can produce food on its own; energy and climate when we need less energy to transport food to market; environment benefits when we are surrounded by green belts and breathe in fresh air; income generating activities when waste water and nutrients can be recycled and sold to urban farmers. Also, migrants from the rural areas can still keep their status and traditions of farming. Can urban farming be an alternative town planning policy in developed or developing countries? Will it play a major role in food security in the future when 80% of food on the world is produced by smallholders in rural area? Or we should ask ourselves, how can we really define urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture when linkages in rural-urban areas can be so intertwine?