Municipal support to the development of urban agriculture in Amman started in 2007, when the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) of the American University in Beirut, Lebanon supported by the RUAF Foundation (the international network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food security) conducted an exploratory study on urban agriculture in Amman. It was then followed by a project in cooperation with the Greater Amman Municipality
that enabled the establishment of a multi-stakeholder forum on urban agriculture (which is now known as the “Committee for Green Amman”).