Final Project Report Available
The final project report is available now. This report gives an overview of the activities of the SEARUSYN project and the results achieved in the 2003-2006 period.
For more information, please contact the project coordinator(e-mail:ben.kamphuis@wur.nl).
Project officially finished, but reporting still in progress.
After the successful policy seminars a year ago the project team concentrated its activities on completing and integrating the results of the different research activities. For that purpose in March and April this year progress workshops were organized in Nanjing and Hanoi. In both cities round table meetings were organized with stakeholders in the different fields, i.e. on organic farming, IPM policy strategies and rural-urban planning. In these meetings the invited stakeholders from a broad range of organisations provided feedback on the research results presented by the project team. These meetings illustrated again the challenging tasks planners, policy makers and researchers have with respect to the planning of new rural-urban areas in the fast growing cities of Asia. The discussions in the various meetings made clear that a more participatory approach and a more open cooperation among planning institutions may help in finding better, more integrated solutions. The academic institutions could play an important role in the planning process by monitoring the implementation of land use plans, elaborating ideas for productive green zones, forming a think tank with planners and by improving cost-benefit analyses. It may be expected that the recently founded "New Socialism Rural Area Institute" at Nanjin will play such a role in the new rural policies of the Chinese government.
In the meantime many reports have been completed and can be down-loaded from this website, others are in preparation and will become available in the coming weeks.
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Project summary
The overall objective of the SEARUSYN project is to contribute
to the synergy between urban growth and agricultural development
in the urban fringe of Hanoi (Vietnam) and Nanjing (China) in order
to improve the welfare of rural and urban communities. To achieve
this objective, systems research will be undertaken on the design
of solutions to problems arising from the interactions between urban
growth and changing horticultural production systems on the city
outskirts. Stakeholder platforms will be set-up as a basis for considering
possible scenarios concerning peri-urban land use planning and resource
management that arise from the research. On the basis of this work,
the platforms should promote the synergistic development of sustainable
peri-urban agricultural systems together with city growth.
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