{"id":34,"date":"2010-09-07T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ssamir\/?p=34"},"modified":"2025-06-05T00:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:48:02","slug":"urban-agriculture-and-visions-for-a-modern-city-cairo-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/de\/34\/urban-agriculture-and-visions-for-a-modern-city-cairo-case-study.html","title":{"rendered":"Urban agriculture and visions for a &#8220;modern&#8221; city : Cairo case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34\" class=\"elementor elementor-34\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-001a668 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"001a668\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15fa946\" data-id=\"15fa946\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6416bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6416bea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-1024x732.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3174\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-1536x1098.png 1536w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo-Case-Study.png 1601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6e935b1f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6e935b1f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c866c41\" data-id=\"1c866c41\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58937368 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58937368\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Conference panel. Havana, Cuba in October 1999<\/p><blockquote><p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urban_agriculture\">urban agriculture<\/a> as a practice is found in almost all cities of Egypt, but the term and concept did not exist in any aspect when I introduced it together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-leipzig.de\/~orient\/orientNeu\/index.php?page=mitarbeiter&amp;PHPSESSID=g87am73tmc2411krfbepr231e1#Gertel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rg Gertel<\/a> from Leipzig university trying to research and investigate the socio-economic factors shaping urban agriculture activities in Cairo. Our co-authored paper on the topic is considered to be one of the first literature addressing this issue in Egypt. In Oct. 1999 I was invited to an international workshop in Havana Cuba titled &#8220;Growing Cities Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda&#8221; to present urban agriculture in Cairo as a case study.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssamir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Urban-Agriculture-Cairo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Urban Agriculture: Cairo Case Study <\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference panel. 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