www.ruaf.org Promoting Urban Agriculture as a Climate Change Strategy

provincial government starting to include urban agriculture in their provincial climate change adaptation action plan. Rehabilitation of flood zones through their productive use is promoted as an important strategy to enhance storm water infiltration and mitigate flood risks. Home garden-ing is supported as well to improve local food secu-rity and livelihoods. Kesbewa is situated about 21 km south of Colombo, in the Colombo District, Western Province of Sri Lanka. With close to 6 million people, the Western Province is the most urbanised province in Sri Lanka, home to about 25 % of the total national population on only 5 % of its surface area. Urbanisation of agricultural areas Historically, Kesbewa has been an agricultural area endowe