Photo by Belinda Pryse. Elephant plant holders at Hyderabad hotel.

BBC’s OnePlanet: Farming in the City
By Andrew Luck-Baker
24 July 2008

Andrew Luck-Baker investigates the pros and cons of urban farming in India. Hyderabad is a city with a booming IT industry. Its streets are also home to thirty thousand buffalo – the animals behind the Indian city’s booming urban dairy businesses. But are the two compatible in a fast modernising city? And is re-using Hyderabad’s polluted waste water to grow vegetables good environmental practice – or a danger to consumers?

Link to BBC Hyderabad podcast.

The National is CBC TV’s premier news show, which is watched across the country. This clip, from July 25, 2008, produced by Margo McDiarmid, shows a growing awareness and interest in urban farming by both the media and the public.

City Farmer was interviewed for the show but due to time constraints was not included in the final edit. The producer had “too many different people in the story and not enough time to tell it”. She is interested in looking more deeply into urban agriculture … “I do hope to do some longer stories on food security and urban agriculture … you were very helpful and your website is a font of information.”