Urban And Community Forestry

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• Urban agriculture — and Peri Urban Agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around (peri urban), a village, town or city. [Bailkey, M. and J. Nasr. 2000. From Brownfields to Greenfields: Producing Food in North American… …   Wikipedia

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• University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences — The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) is one of seventeen colleges and professional schools at the University of Minnesota. CFANS is focused on helping people solve everyday problems through science. The college… …   Wikipedia

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