The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad held a workshop entitled (Urban Agriculture) delivered by Dr. Zainab Abbas Ahmed, in the presence of the center’s professors and employees.

The workshop aimed to develop the exploitation of land areas available for agriculture in cities, even if they are small such as gardens and between plants, in addition to raising poultry and fish farming for the purpose of providing fresh and healthy food to city residents. Dr. Ahmed concluded in her workshop that growing vegetables and fruits in home gardens has become necessary. As for the people in the capital, Baghdad, there are those who tend to raise domestic animals in homes because it suits their standard of living. In addition, most people support the cultivation of empty public and abandoned spaces, in addition to the cultivation of the roofs of houses and public buildings such as schools and hospitals, and they support the participation of children (students) in schools and participation. In collective work in agriculture.

The most important recommendations reached by the workshop focused on developing urban agriculture in the city of Baghdad and preserving it by establishing its own laws, not allowing encroachment on agricultural lands and urban sprawl on them, and emphasizing the introduction of the urban agriculture curriculum into the curricula of schools and universities to teach students about agriculture in the city., training them on it and making people aware of the importance of urban agriculture, as well as focusing on the necessity of exploiting empty spaces in the city of Baghdad for agriculture and raising domestic animals and bees.

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