{"id":498,"date":"2025-10-02T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/lee-smith-diana\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:27","slug":"lee-smith-diana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lee-smith-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Smith Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiana Lee-Smith<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Lee-Smith Diana\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/lee-smith-diana\/300985-1-eng-gb\/lee-smith-diana_author.jpg\" alt=\"Lee-Smith Diana\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Co-founder Mazingira Institute, which has been engaged with urban agricultural research and development in Nairobi, Kenya since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Currently, the Institute hosts the Nairobi and Environs Food Security, Agriculture and Livestock Forum (NEFSALF).&nbsp; In 2002-2005 she was African Regional Coordinator for Urban Harvest, a programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).&nbsp; From 2006-2009 Dr Lee-Smith was Visiting Professor in Public Health at the University of Toronto where she taught and edited two books, Healthy City Harvests (CIP-IDRC 2008) and African Urban Harvest (Springer NY-IDRC 2010). She is now based at Mazingira Institute in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/towards-a-food-secure-world\/urban-agriculture-for-the-urban-poor\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/towards-a-food-secure-world\/urban-agriculture-for-the-urban-poor\/300998-1-eng-gb\/urban-agriculture-for-the-urban-poor_column.jpg\" alt=\"Urban agriculture for the urban poor \"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/towards-a-food-secure-world\/urban-agriculture-for-the-urban-poor\/\">Urban agriculture for the urban poor <\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lee-smith-diana\/\">Diana Lee-Smith<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15 January 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tUrban agriculture is a priority strategy in tackling challenges to feeding the world\u2019s population, regarding Diana Lee-Smith.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/food-security\/\" title=\"Food Security\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/food-security\/88518-5-eng-gb\/food-security_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Food Security\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/towards-a-food-secure-world\/urban-agriculture-for-the-urban-poor\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Lee-Smith Co-founder Mazingira Institute, which has been engaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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