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Urban Agriculture as an Integrative Factor of Climate-Optimised Urban Development, Casablanca / Morocco

Urban Agriculture Casablanca is a German-Moroccan research project of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the megacity research programme "Research for the Sustainable Development of Megacities of Tomorrow, Focus: Energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres".

Based on the results of the preliminary project phase (07/2005 – 03/2008), Urban Agriculture Casablanca is a research and development project with a main project phase of five years duration (04/2008 – 03/2013).

NEWS: Excursion to Germany May 2012

The second excursion of Moroccan team partners to Germany takes place from May 1-8, 2012. The excursion aims at sharing experiences of urban agriculture in Germany.

Here you can download the excursion programme in French (pdf).

The first excursion of Moroccan UAC partners to Germany took place October 4-11, 2009.

 

Special Topos Edition on Urban Agriculture


In March 2011 the UAC project published a special issue of the topos, which presents the results of the research project on Urban Agriculture under the aspect of "Design as an integrative Factor of Research"

Here you can download the Callway publication Topos 74

Here you can order the Callway publication Topos 74 


 

Partner Institutions

News

June 25, 2012 - June 27, 2012
Eco Technologies for Wastewater Treatment
C. Brand, A. Sanchez, M. Chlaida, M.Kraume, Industrial Herbal Extraction Wastewater Treatment Using... [more]
July 01, 2012 - July 05, 2012
SIWW 2012 "Water Solutions for Liveable and Sustainable Cities"
  Water Convention Water Convention   The Water Convention is a platform for industry... [more]
August 06, 2012 - August 10, 2012
ICUC
International Conference on Urban Climatology [more]
September 04, 2012 - September 08, 2012
49th IFLA World Congress
49th IFLA World Congress Landscapes in Transition [more]
September 27, 2012 - September 28, 2012
African-Arabian-Conference
African-Arabian-Conference of the UAC project   An international African-Arabian-Conference... [more]
February 28, 2013 - March 01, 2013
Kick-out workshop for dissemination and further project continuation
Kick-out workshop for the dissemination of project outcomes and further project continuation [more]

Project financed by

  • Logo: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Logo: Research Programme Future Megacities