Selection of urban agriculture photos from collection of Jac Smit and TUAN

Lima, Peru; Community Garden on Former Soccer Field; Funded by CARE USA; 1991

These 26 photos are part of a larger collection of documents soon to be housed at Ryerson University in Toronto in the Jac Smit Memorial Library of Urban Agriculture.

“Under the merger arrangement, TUAN’s (The Urban Agriculture Network’s) comprehensive library of documents and materials on urban agriculture will be transferred to Toronto, Canada and supervised by Joe Nasr. Once it is re-established, the collection will be named the Jac Smit Memorial Library of Urban Agriculture and will be made available for use of researchers and practitioners worldwide.

Joe Nasr and Jac Smit co-authored Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities. Urban Agriculture, Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities, was launched at the World Urban Forum in Istanbul in 1996 by the United Nations Development Program [UNDP]. This book has been accepted as the “Seminal Document” by many academic and professional organizations. It is based on visits to twenty countries between 1992 and 1994, visits to another ten countries prior to that date, and research at a dozen institutions in countries on all continents.

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All photos by Jac Smit unless otherwise noted.

Havana, Cuba; Organiponico Raised Bed; Employees’ Garden; 1999 

Loudon County, Virginia, USA; Wheatland Truck Farm with Drip Irrigation; Skip Planck, Owner/Operator; 1999 

San Francisco, California, USA; Presidio Military Base Community Garden; 1989 

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Small Vegetable Plot at Streamside; German Urban Vegetable Promotion Project; 1999

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Home Garden Project at Government Building; 1999 

Stoesterberg, Netherlands; Allotment Gardens in Spring; 2002

Normandy, France; New Community Garden; 1997

Thessalonica, Greece; Suburban Greenhouses; 1996; Photo by Joe Nasr

Mexico City, Mexico; Chinampas (Floating Islands); 1992 

Lima, Peru; Community Garden on Former Soccer Field; Funded by CARE USA; 1991 

Vila de Leyva, Columbia; Weekly Market; 1995 
Mexico City, Mexico; Cactus Garden (for salad), Export Crop to USA; 1992 

Nairobi, Kenya; Vegetables and Ornamentals in Commercial Production on Rented Municipal Land; 1990

Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Central Market; 1994 

Bouake, Ivory Coast; Raised Beds at Agricultural School; 1995; Photo by Ken Hargesheimer 

Bouake, Ivory Coast; Fish Production (Aquaculture); 1994; Photo by Ken Hargesheimer 

Port au Prince, Haiti; Market Gardening; 1993 

Port au Prince, Haiti; Greenhouse, Vegetables, Christmas Flowers, Baptist Missionary Production; 1993

Port au Prince, Haiti; Corn Production on Hospital Grounds; 1993 

Washington, DC; Jac’s Presentation on Urban Agriculture at Wilson Center with Photo of Del-Mar-VA Greenhouse in Background; 2002; Photo by Wilson Center PR Department

See more photos at Jac Smit’s web site here.

See announcement of new collection at Ryerson here.