ABSTRACT
The Netanya Workshop included four sessions at which participants were asked to present their own conclusions. The first session concentrated on the formation of growers’ associations to face both access to land and to the consumers. The second session covered the transfer of technology for water management; the third ecological aspects of urban and peri-urban gardening and the fourth merely listed the mission statements that were asked from each participant after having lived through all paper presentations and discussions. ‘Farming is a way of life’ is what many gardeners interviewed would state, irrespective of where the researcher found her or him cultivating the land. The main synergy expected from urban and peri-urban farming is its utilisation of urban waste products in exchange for fresh agricultural produce: its presumed ability to turn waste into an asset. Geographers and cartographers have an important role to play when it comes to giving peri-urban and urban farmers the right type of support.
